{"id":616,"date":"2009-06-24T09:29:19","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T15:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/?p=616"},"modified":"2012-01-29T22:40:52","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T05:40:52","slug":"summer-solcitce-in-dawson-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/post-id\/616","title":{"rendered":"Summer Solstice in Dawson City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"oy tt-flickr tt-flickr tt-flickr-Thumbnail\" title=\"Midnight at the Dome in Dawson City\" href=\"https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3408\/3656752010_81f48f5c90_z.jpg?zz=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3408\/3656752010_81f48f5c90_t.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Midnight at the Dome in Dawson City\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a> One can pack a lot more into a day when the sun barely drops below the far mountain range for only a few minutes. <!--more-->In one day, we: (1) Drove from Carmacks, a village of 500 nestled at the junction of the Yukon River and one of it&#8217;s tributaries, making lots of stops for pictures for our &#8220;Wild Flower Album&#8221; and short side trips to arrive in Dawson City mid-afternoon; (2) After setting up camp, we explored the historic town and lined up some more ranger talks for the next day; (3) Washed the car &#8211; it was so filthy we couldn&#8217;t see out the window; (4) After dinner, and a &#8220;drink&#8221; of Internet, I talked Dave into heading up the Midnight Dome trail, a rounded 3000 ft mountain, to see the sights; (5) At about 10:00pm I began a painting while Dave chatted with a local First Nations woman and another photographer; (6) <a class=\"oy tt-flickr tt-flickr tt-flickr-Thumbnail\" title=\"Sunset in Dawson at Midnight\" href=\"https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3392\/3649291109_7ed80f929e_z.jpg?zz=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3392\/3649291109_7ed80f929e_t.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Sunset in Dawson at Midnight\" width=\"80\" height=\"53\" \/><\/a> At 1:00 am we were too tired to wait around anymore for the sun to really set and head back down the mountain; (7) We stopped back in town to take pics of some of the historical buildings when there wasn&#8217;t any traffic &#8211; which to Dave felt like a ghost town due to no actvitity in a time daylight; (8) Took some more photos of the sunset from the town&#8217;s perspective; (9) Finally crashed after 2:00 am &#8212; and it was still light out!<\/p>\n<p>There are some more Dawson City photos in the album titled <a href=\"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/flickrphotos\/album\/72157620088338701\/2009-06-19.html\">06-19 Dawson City<\/a> at the right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One can pack a lot more into a day when the sun barely drops below the far mountain range for only a few minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions\/621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezaires.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}