1.0 link Rainbow Dash Network http://rainbowdash.net/ Astra (astra) http://rainbowdash.net/astra http://rainbowdash.net/notice/223438 @<span class="vcard"><a href="http://rainbowdash.net/user/1047" class="url" title="Erik Banner"><span class="fn nickname">communistprime</span></a></span> Yikes! 40 below is no fun at all, especially when you're having to sleep outside in it! Apparently, you did it right, though, or you wouldn't be here talking about it. ;) When I was with my folks last week, we actually got looking at old pictures, and talking about when there were stretches of cold like that. The furthest north I remember us ever going is Denali National Park, though. Most of the time, we were around Anchorage. I hope that you aren't getting stationed too far north, there. As for the auroras, my memories of them back then are dim, sadly. I was only four or five at the time. My recollections of the ones when I was in northern Wisconsin are much more clear, even if they weren't nearly so frequent. Very, very pretty. :)