{"id":16089,"date":"2026-02-15T22:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T06:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=16089"},"modified":"2026-02-19T11:50:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T19:50:43","slug":"go-north-young-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2026\/02\/15\/go-north-young-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Go North Young Man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We thought we were cursed to have another night of Auroras hidden behind clouds again last night, but the snow finally stopped, and around 11:30pm the skies started to clear and the lights were shining above us, giving us a good show until the clouds returned and we finally collapsed into bed at 1am. The “KPI index” hit a max of 4 (out of 9) during our eight nights in Alaska; it’s tough to imagine how amazing it must be during a huge solar storm when the number goes higher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This morning we got up at 6:45 and carefully made our way through the falling snow and back to Fairbanks. Audrey spotted a mother moose and her year-old calf next to the road as we were getting ready to drop our car, which made for a nice ending to an excellent trip. It’s unlikely that we’ll do another Northern Lights trip any time soon – the typical cycle of solar activity lasts 11 years, and the current cycle peaked last year – but this trip was a great chance to see the lights near the cycle’s maximum, and we were lucky that the universe gave us a few nights that we’ll remember forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Aurora<\/p>\n

The vivid colors and tall trees around the cabin made for a fun late-night Aurora photography session.<\/div>\n\n\n\n

\"Aurora<\/p>\n

The Auroras alternated between a dim glow and a bright band of neon light snaking across the sky for a little over an hour last night. Every time I thought the show was over another band would start brightening and pulsing its way from horizon to horizon.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We thought we were cursed to have another night of Auroras hidden behind clouds again last night, but the snow finally stopped, and around 11:30pm the skies started to clear and the lights were shining above us, giving us a good show until the clouds returned and we finally collapsed into bed at 1am. The … Continue reading “Go North Young Man”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[79,30],"class_list":["post-16089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-northern-lights","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16089"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16108,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16089\/revisions\/16108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}