Wonderer_907

Promise Kept..

I really don't know what to say exactly. I knew the weather was going to be good. I knew I was going to have to get up early and it was going to be col...
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I really don't know what to say exactly. I knew the weather was going to be good. I knew I was going to have to get up early and it was going to be cold, not cold cold, but cold 26 (-4 C). Melting snow was, I knew, going to freeze solid as a rock and take me anywhere I wanted. And maybe just maybe I could test my luck once more on the shelf ice that still clings to the shallow drawn banks. Geodetic position has the sun peaking over the corner of that brown hill-mountain to the left and I am standing to nearest possible degree on the arch shadow the Sun will travel this day here. Sunrise's in the mountains are great in so many ways, but foremost in my mind is how long and attenuated the light becomes. Technically the Sun has broken the horizon plane, in fact almost ~9 minutes before this shot. The color has approximately 35 minutes to change and develop once the Sun has technically risen but hasn't yet gained the 5.3 degrees in rise needed to crest over that furthest mountain standing at a little more then 6,000ft (~1800m) tall. All that said you lose contrast second by second, it becomes day like anywhere else, time just hesitates a tad here in Mountains of the north.
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