After an hour we went to the bar to see if we could find some people. Bill went inside and asked. Finally someone even came outside to smoke. He told me that they spotted a brief aurora at the camp, not here, so they set off the alarm, just in case. We didn't stay out much longer. It was disappointing. Oh well. We had time and now we knew how it worked.
We thought it was weird that we didn't see anyone else outside, even after a half hour, not one other person. Still no aurora.
We didn't see anything but we were patient. Bill calibrated his camera and we kept looking.
It was a very clear night. You can see how bright the moon is shining. The construction on the left is an expansion of the main lodge.
We were watching a movie on the iPad, maybe going to sleep and the aurora alarm we paid for went off. We leaped out of bed and put on all of our layers as quickly as we could, grabbed the camera and ran out of the cabin! We did well. We were outside about 10 minutes after the alarm went off.
Dogsledding day! Hoo boy was it cold! My eyelashes have icicles on them! At night, aurora camp.
We left home on December 11, 2016 for Finland and came home on January 4th. The entire time we were about 200 miles North of the Arctic Circle. We stayed at the Nellim Wilderness Lodge, Sarmi Cabin and Muotkan Maja Wilderness Lodge. We had a GREAT time! Note: I'm posting pages as I finish them. This is only partially done.
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