A Ray

Looking north. Two small rays of aurora appeared to the right in the frame.

Satellite

Twilight was fading fast, the sky was getting dark, very dark. The wind made the trees not stand still.

Darkness

The aurora brightened a bit and had some visible structure. With no moon, there would be nothing to see for landscape, but silhouettes unless the aurora erupted.

Long Exposure

Faint aurora over the horizon.

Higher Up

As we hiked, the aurora was growing much brighter. The trail was steeper than I remembered.

Northern View

Spruce trees swaying. It was pretty windy.

Forest View

Active

The aurora strengthened immensely while we were hiking down.

It's A Twister!

Aurora borealis over the Chena hills from the Angel Rocks Trail. Chena River Recreation Area, Alaska

Separating

A few smaller bands broke away and drifted north. The main band stayed pretty stationary in a north to south orientation from our perspective.

Sitting and Watching.

We found a nice little break from the wind on top of a small tor. Sat here for about 10 minutes watching.

Chena Aurora

Cool Sky

The aurora started to diffuse a bit, some longer exposures brought out the landscape a bit.

Wispy Fantasy

Pleiades

Oversaturate

What's Happening Behind The Clouds?

Very cool activity to the southeast as some clouds rolled in. Neat colors looking at the horizon, almost orange as the lower altitude crimson kind of blended in with green behind it from our perspective.

Diffuse

Looking up through the trees and the tors.

Aurora Overflow

The aurora reflects off some refrozen overflow on the Chena River.