This weekend was filled with northern lights! Yesterday they showed up as soon as it was dark enough, and continued almost all night. I braved the cold wind for a couple of hours, and made this time lapse video. It consists of 367 images taken over about 2.5 hours, each image an exposure of 20 seconds. Enjoy! 🙂
(For best viewing, choose HD and watch fullscreen!)
The sun is back! I was unfortunately stuck at work, but we have quite a nice view from the roof, so I did get some pictures 🙂 There were silly clouds JUST on the horizon in the south, everywhere else the sky was completely clear 😀
At the same time, Paul was on his way to the top of Tromsdalstinden, the mountain in the picture above. Look at the beautiful views that he had along the way…
He dug out the guestbook from the completely frozen cairn, and was pleased to find out that he was the first visitor in 2012. OR the first visitor who bothered to dig out the guestbook of course 😛
That’s all for now, we’re having a very busy week at the Tromsø filmfestival. We’re also having a visitor this weekend, who was very keen to see the northern lights. She completely lucked out, as last night the northern lights were active all night. We came home at 03:45 in the morning and they were still going strong… wow! I lent her my tripod, so I didn’t get any photos myself, but you can see two of her photos here and here. We might go out tonight again 🙂
The weather forecast for yesterday was good, and since there was rain in the forecast for today, we decided to make the most of it. Eelke and Roy had chosen the first top on the way to Tverrfjellet, a mountain that I had once climbed in summer. We decided to join. I don’t have randonnée ski’s, and took my snowshoes instead. I was curious to find out if I’d be able to keep up with them. We started early and at around 10 we were ready to leave the parking lot. It was only just getting light, and the sky was very purple!
The views were beautiful all day… One reason I like snowshoeing so much is that it’s easier to take photos, so I had brought my SLR. I’m glad I did!
It was a beautiful day, cold – but hardly any wind – and a perfect blue sky. The photo on the right (below) is taken by Eelke.
Up, up, up! Our aim was a top at 525 m. There were quite a few others with the same idea 🙂
Time for another panorama…
After about 2 hours, we reached our goal. We had a nice lunch break on the top.
Including a chocolate orange 🙂
And then it was time to return. I was worried I would take a lot longer to come down than the skiers, as I have to walk down while they can ski. When I started to walk, this Norwegian skier passed me by and disappeared out of view within minutes 😀
However, Paul, Eelke and Roy were still faffing with their ski’s while I already started my way down – and in the end I was only about 5 minutes slower getting to the car! It was really fun as well, and I’m looking forward to join some more of their toppturs this winter 🙂