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What are temperatures and wind conditions like?
I'm thinking a paramotor vacation would be awesome with round-the-clock sun... if the wind isn't bad... I could fly all damn day and night! |
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Wow. Beautiful.
My next adventure is going to be to Alaska. It's #1 on my Bucket list. |
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What are temperatures and wind conditions like? View Quote Amazing photos. I've been in Northern Europe during the summer ( Bet you cant guess where ) And while the sky was lit, the sun wasn't above the horizon. Crazy feeling. Sun was up from about 3am to 11pm-ish Going drinking all night was a trip |
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What are temperatures and wind conditions like? I'm thinking a paramotor vacation would be awesome with round-the-clock sun... if the wind isn't bad... I could fly all damn day and night! View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
What are temperatures and wind conditions like? I'm thinking a paramotor vacation would be awesome with round-the-clock sun... if the wind isn't bad... I could fly all damn day and night! We hit 90f last week but are back to cool normal now with 70's in the day, high 40 low 50's at night, barring rain. Quoted:
Wow. Beautiful. My next adventure is going to be to Alaska. It's #1 on my Bucket list. But Alaska is absolutely beautiful no matter what time of year you come visit. Just depends on what you want to see really. June is perfect in the summer as you'll normally miss the wildfire season but still get the light, weather, and local holidays. Late October to mid November or Late Feb to mid March are fantastic for aurora viewing. Still probably cold for most people though as it could still be -30f at points. |
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This was going to be my question. Amazing photos. I've been in Northern Europe during the summer ( Bet you cant guess where ) And while the sky was lit, the sun wasn't above the horizon. Crazy feeling. Sun was up from about 3am to 11pm-ish Going drinking all night was a trip View Quote But I love the tourists looking all exhausted and still plugging along until you go 'dude, it's 2 am. What are you doing?' and they freak out Great fishing though. I would have poked around at the lake a bit more, but there was a grizzly kill on the other side of it a week or so ago and I didn't have a sidearm on me. Granted there were plenty of people at the lake fishing and whatnot still, but I didn't want to tempt fate and try to fight off a bear with a tripod. |
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Great pictures. I was supposed to be moving there about this time but it got delayed until late August/early September. I'll have to catch it in person next year.
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Alrighty, it's 2 am and still light out (I'll add an iphone pic to this post in a minute) so I'm going to bed after clearing off the camera gear.
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I'm going to wainwright. View Quote |
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Thanks for posting those pictures. We live in a beautiful world, man. I haven't been up to Alaska in 20 years, but such good memories of the scenery.
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Nice!
That's a beautiful place and way up there on my bucket list. But tell me, what's the vampire situation like in the winter? I hear that they love the place. |
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I have never been to Alaska, but I have twice had the pleasure of spending Mdsmmmer in Finland in a very similar environment It was also festive |
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My GF's step dad lives and works up there flying all over the state. I gotta get up there before he retires and moves back down to the lower 48. It's always been on my bucket list.
Amazing pics OP! |
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Looking at the pictures is awesome, because you get the views without the swarms of mosquitoes.
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I love this time of year. Unfortunately we pay for it in winter, but there is nothing like going trout fishing at the midnight ish golden hour. View Quote |
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NorthPolar in pic 1 is that the Mtn range you can see out by the general avaiation side of the airport (SE)? Alaska Range?
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Nice work...been north far enough to have the sun set pretty late but never far enough to experience midnight sun.
so thanks for the pics. |
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Looking at those photos I'm thinking that getting a STOL aircraft like the Maule that's currently got my eye and making a flying and camping excursion of Alaska one summer. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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What are temperatures and wind conditions like? I'm thinking a paramotor vacation would be awesome with round-the-clock sun... if the wind isn't bad... I could fly all damn day and night! |
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Since I'm likely moving out of AK this fall or upcoming spring, I spent today driving around the local area taking photos. While these aren't midnight sun ones, I thought you guys might like them. Just got in the door, so edits might take a bit.
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Some day I want to visit and experience it for myself...............seeing the Northern Lights is on my bucket list
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Really nice work NorthPolar.
Very inspiring. Thank you for these Sir. |
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Good luck on your drive up, and there will still be plenty of light in August, but we're down to normal hours in September for the most part. Still not a bad time to get here though, as you'll be catching the tip of aurora season. Are you going to Eielson/Wainwright or JBER? Barring a horrible fire season, there will be plenty of light to do a ton of stuff outside. Fairbanks (where I'm at) gets a decent bit more than Anchorage, but it all comes down to where you are going. Poke your head into the HTF and we'll try to send you the right way on stuff. Not really a full reverse, but we do only get 4 hours of daylight on the winter solstice. Upside is plenty of aurora viewing, but after 30 years up here I'm pretty used to the cold. http://pre15.deviantart.net/7218/th/pre/i/2017/109/4/d/aurora_over_north_pole__ak_04_19_2017_by_aknorthpolar-db6cwam.jpg View Quote Thanks for posting. ETA: In fact, there's a pretty strong auroral ring going on right now, according to the propagation websites. |
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