Never a doubt

It was a cloudy night in Yellowknife through and through, and after a good half hour drive out we reached partly clear skies which didn’t last. We were getting clouded out with the clear breaks being eaten up entirely by cloud and what was left of the clear break was moving back toward Yellowknife.

We packed up the car, and as we were about to pull out of the driveway we had tucked ourselves into, a guest confirms if we are going in the direction of Yellowknife to those clear breaks which passed over us. It was the logical thought.

Actually we are going to head further west, hopefully through this cloud to more stable clear sky. Probably another 20-40km, I said.

Forecasts were showing more stable clear breaks up far in the northwest, and it looked like there might be some clear sky low, low on that northwest horizon from where we were.

“And you never doubted this for a moment, right?…”

Our next 30 odd kilometres were under a lot of heavy cloud and over a lot of frost heaves.

We finally started to reach a few stars, and shortly after tucked into another small driveway with the sky mostly clear. It wasn’t long until we the aurora danced above us. It was perfect, perfect timing, and as this was all unfolding, I joked to my guests that they definitely never doubted this for a moment earlier…