A highway chase

It wasn’t quite the way I had the night drawn up on paper, but isn’t that the way working with mother nature on multiple fronts goes.

I had hoped that after making our way some 70 or so kilometres from town, we’d have arrived under mostly clear skies. However we had arrived under mostly cloudy skies, which was a vast improvement from town, but far from ideal. Clear sky was breaking from the south west, which prompted a little running back and forth chasing clear breaks along the highway. Referencing weather maps, running a few kilometres, rinse and repeat for the first half of our night. And finally later in the night, the weather stabilized and arcs of green aurora shone through clear sky now open in the north.