Won’t be long now sunshine

My notes from our first winter here say that the river stopped flowing on November 17th last year, and the sun stopped hitting our house in the same week.

Today when I saw the sun’s glow in the ice fog hanging over town, I signed out of work so I could go for a walk. I don’t find walking in the dark nearly as enjoyable.

Here are a few shots from my iPhone that I was keeping warm in my mitten between shots:

This pictures are all from 2:30 – 3:00 pm. You can see how low the sun is. Soon, it won’t clear the hills and we’ll be in the shade until January. Right now it is really only hitting town in the 2 o’clock hour.

Yesterday it got really mild for a few hours and everything started to melt. All is right with the world again and we’re back at -8. There is a frozen mist hanging over town all day today though – maybe from the Klondike River that is still flowing. Look at the frost that formed on the school fence today!

Neat eh? Here’s the view of the Yukon River. Really low, covered with mostly ice chunks, but still flowing pretty briskly.

Here’s the view of the dyke walkway along the Yukon River, looking towards the sun.

I walked down and out onto the river bed. The river is so low at this time of the year, it is a long way from the shore.

Back on the lower dyke trail.

I feel like my dad would have been pretty giddy walking around town with his camera today.

Jeff spent the day up the Dempster skidooing with a friend. He reports that there isn’t much snow, but he still loves his Skidoo.

Today’s sunrise time was 9:34am and it set at 4:30pm.