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How to see the northern lights
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How I did it: Traveled to Barrow, Alaska during mid-September. Caught exactly one clear night (my last night there), and viola! I've heard that just outside of Fairbanks is the best geographical area to see the aurora in Alaska, but as it turns out the display in Barrow was more dramatic than what my family, who stayed just north of the Arctic Circle, saw the same night. Lessons & tips: September is apparently Alaska's rainy season, so I would recommend going later in winter. Cold, clear, dark nights represent the best viewing opportunities.
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I was about to see them in Norway but I haven’t seen them.
So it is one of my dream, whether in Iceland or Alaska, would be amazing! Natural shows are the best ones.
next year?
1 week ago
If i can pay off all my debts by next year. i’m going to save up and probably go Iceland next christmas/new year =]
Seeing the northern lights
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Since I lived in Minnesota for three years, in North Dakota for seven years and traveled to North Dakota for work for another 12 years after that, I saw the northern lights plenty of times without going out of my way.
The best time was one evening I had to drive from the Spirit Lake Dakota Nation to the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa reservation. It is about a two-hour drive for me (I drive slow). It was a clear, freezing night, about nine below zero and the temperature dropped progressively as I drove toward Turtle Mountain, which is just a few miles south of the Canadian border. Soon, it was 15 below and dropping. Off to my right, I could see the northern lights the whole way. It was beautiful, like purple fireworks in the night sky.
It was 22 below by the time I got to the hotel, which was named the Sky Dancer, after a story the Chippewa had about the northern lights being a dancer in the sky, I think.
Usually when I have to drive at night in that kind of weather, I spend the entire time thinking how insane I must be to be here instead of home in Santa Monica. For once, I just thought how amazingly beautiful it was and how lucky I am to have a life that encompasses so much variety, from the Santa Monica Pier to the northern lights.
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i lived in anchorage for two years, i just happened to be out late one night at the end of summer seeing as how the sun stays up forever in alaska during the summer. well it finally got dark and it was like somebody hit a switch the sky just started glowing. i never saw them again though.
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I’m gonna make this happen. I was living in Death Valley when Hale-Bopp flew by…big sky, big stars…but I really want to see the BIG SHOW up north!
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