Lots of opportunity to take sunset images these days, ha ha. The first series are on the last sunrise day of the year at noon, by the boat launch on the river, just past the ESSO station.
This set is back by the truck out by the cliff and some further down the Dempster by the territorial park at Campbell lake and the next campsite further south at Carmichael Lake. Interesting to note the sculpted clouds indicating high winds aloft. Don’t usually see those up here, the Crowsnest Pass in Alberta, on the other hand these lenticular cloud formations occurring over the main ranges are very common. One last shot of me leaving the climbing area for the year of 2013, won’t be back until next year.
The other feature of note that evening was the mirages of cold and warm air mixing over the south part of the Delta. The shimmer was visible and the patches of warm and cold air intermixing is quite visible in the still shots. It makes one wonder if there is a cold air trap at the start of the Delta and of course also at the base of the Richardson’s. This is twice now that there has been prominent mirage formation caused by variable air masses. Likely katabatic winds play into this but on this day it was evident that the winds aloft were causing the mixing. The shadow towers are quite interesting.
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