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Pastimes : Where the GIT's are going -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Justin C who wrote (167227)	10/1/2008 3:37:10 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

I love those remote locations in the mountains. This summer I was at 9000 feet for several days. Because of many large forest fires all around, the stars were muted. That was offset for me by the most glorious sky. The sun was setting in the west, blood red because of the smoke. A full moon rose in the east, also blood red. There is no way you could get it all in one picture. At that elevation, if there is little or no smoke or atmospheric moisture, you can often see the northern lights in the summer time, and the skies are filled with diamonds. People at lower elevations have little idea of how many stars you can see with the naked eye under those conditions. On another day at this same location, I told my buddy "Look at that sky in the west!" It was the deepest red I've ever seen, almost like cooling molten iron. As it happens, I got a call from my wife on the cell phone--yes at 9000 feet in the River of No Return Wilderness. She said, "It looks like the sky is on fire!" I told her I was seeing the same thing, and we marveled at it together as we talked. She was 300 miles away, at our home.