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Day 2076: I’ve spent more than 20 hours this week researching everything I can about the aurora. I’ve skimmed almost two dozen academic papers including ones written in the 1950s about the emission spectrum of nitrogen and papers detailin

Day 2075: Okay, now for an in-depth discussion of the factors behind the Aurora. On Tuesday I highlighted the origins of the auroral colors, but glossed over the fundamental mechanism that drives charged particles and the solar wind into our atmosphe

Day 2074: Now to place our Friday aurora event in some context. Carbon-14 dating allows us to see possible aurora events from centuries ago. During extreme events when energetic particles enter our atmosphere from the sun, a proton can be dislodged f

Day 2073: The Friday aurora not only extended further south than any recent storm, but it was also more colorful and more dynamic at mid elevations than most storms are at any latitude. To understand why it was unique everywhere, let’s turn to

Day 2072: Some elements of life fail to live up to the hype surrounding them. The view from a summit isn’t nearly as good as promised. That fancy restaurant you booked two months ago underwhelms. Something small goes wrong on the special day yo

Day 2071: What’s in a name (officially)? On here time and time again I find myself drawn to the process of naming, especially as it relates to geographic features. I’ve discussed our tendency to bestow upon features the same name time aft

Day 2070: It’s been a disappointing couple of months for the Aurora Borealis in the PNW. With promises of extensive solar activity as we approach solar maximum through 2024 and into 2025 and hints that solar activity may end up greater than pre

Day 2069: As much as we joke about summer starting on the July 5th in Western WA, May is our true transition month from the April spring to the June summer. Of course snow frequently still falls in the high elevations in May (and even June) and cloud

Day 2068: Yesterday I discussed the introduction of grizzlies to the North Cascades. It’s hard to know exactly how the reintroduction will play out, but we can be sure that it will not go exactly according to plan. In this post I wanted to high

Day 2067: A little over a week ago the govt announced it would reintroduce grizzly bears into the North Cascades ecosystem. This decision was reached after extensive public comments and research begun in 1982. A program start date wasn’t given,

Day 2065: Every year since 2018 I’ve gone snow camping at least once during the winter or early spring. There is something spectacular about how the light falls on the peaks that is unique in the winter. In a land where every surface is plaster

Day 2064: Spring is the most dynamic time of year in the PNW (at least in terms of daily weather). It can be sunny and near 70F in the lowlands while it’s snowing just a couple miles up in the mountains. We can see temperatures plummet by as mu

Day 2064: The world is so frickin pretty it sometimes hurts to experience it. As another Earth Day comes and goes I will continue to do what I can to protect small patches of our blue-green marble while experiencing and sharing as much of its wonders

Day 2062: It’s not quite the endless fields of lupine you find in some places (like Iceland or New Zealand), but somehow we’ve once again come around to the start of bluish-purple flower season in the Cascades. Even though this photo is f

Day 2061: The winter closure section of the North Cascades Highway opens tomorrow (Friday). This means that the northernmost travel route through Washington, which passes through North Cascades National Park, will once again reconnect the two sides o

Day 2060: If you’ve spent time out on snowfields or glaciers in the spring/summer, you might be aware of the “solar oven.” During midday, somewhat counterintuitively, the hottest place you can find yourself is traversing across the

Day 2059: This post is an experiment in technology, so it might appear a bit strange. Cameras have always struggled to emulate the technological prowess of the human eye. Over millions of years of evolution, eyes (paired with the brain of course) hav

Day 2058: I’m always a little skeptical of human construction in wilderness and wilderness adjacent areas. There aren’t that many places that are protected from all forms of human structures and they can easily encourage overuse/abuse. On

Day 2057: I was kind of sad to miss the opportunity to capture any good sunrises/sunsets on my recent ski tour in the Canadian Rockies. Despite clear conditions for much of the time, the evenings always seemed to cloud up at the last moment. Skies wo

Day 2056: Every mountain range carries with it a distinct vibe. Some feature long connecting ridge lines of subalpine meadows. Others are defined by a sea of gentle rolling forested hills that swell out to the horizon. And then there are those glacie

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“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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