21 December 2022

Happy Winter Solstice

*Photo from the Alaska Digital Archives; Photo credit: P.S. Hunt*

The above photo was taken at noon of the Winter Solstice in ’98, as in 1898. P.S. Hunt arrived in Alaska that summer from San Jose, California. It would appear that Hunt named the cabin after his previous hometown.

Way to go Chicken!!

The Chicken, Alaska weather station continues to impress. -63F is the coldest I have ever experienced in Fairbanks.

It was -41F at the cabin on Tuesday morning.

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, December 21st, 2022 at 12:15 AM and tagged with anniversary, B&W, film, history, photo, snow, Solstice, travel, UAF, winter and posted in Alaska. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

6 responses to “Happy Winter Solstice”

Timothy
December 21st, 2022 at 12:54 AM

Happy Winter Solstice! Now let’s count down to Summer Solstice. 🙂

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- icefogger
  December 21st, 2022 at 7:50 PM
  
  I’m ready to be gaining daylight!
  
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  - Timothy
    December 21st, 2022 at 8:14 PM
    
    So am I!
    
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David J. Bauman
December 21st, 2022 at 11:06 AM

Wow! Those temps. Eek! And, is it me or is WordPress getting busy again, now that a certain “micro-blogging” bluebird site is in its death throes? In either case, I’m happy to see it. Stay warm!

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- icefogger
  December 21st, 2022 at 7:49 PM
  
  I hadn’t put those two together, but you may be right! Let’s hope so.
  
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nationalparkswitht
December 21st, 2022 at 5:10 PM

Brrrr!

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