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In Reply to: RE: People in the farther north actually dread this day. posted by free.ranger on June 21, 2012 at 20:22:54
I know that our winter days are short at around 5 to 6 hours, so it must be pretty depressing to be closer to the long night. Do you guys use "SAD lamps" to provide some relief? I'm told they can be pretty effective for those with genuine depression.
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But seems that alcohol is the preferred remedy.
Funny thing was this affliction wasn’t as prevalent and thoroughly studied in the 70’s when I was living in the Arctic Circle, as what it is now. I remembered going through this emotional ride during the summer and especially when the temperature was holding steady at -50 in the dead of night in the middle of winter. Anyway, when I was going through it, I thought I wasn’t drinking enough or getting enough sleep and other curricular activities that make us partly alive. As the matter of fact some of my co-workers did resort to drinking, gambling and cajoling to keep themselves busy just to alleviate the symptoms and what have you. Case, in point the guy who lived next door to me in the bunkhouse where I stayed was deadly serious of being an alcoholic. He used to keep me awake at night with clinkering of the bottle caps being thrown into the garbage can. But I had a job to do, for as long as I wasn’t sick with a flu or pneumonia I soldiered on and logged cores hoping to find that next mother lode deposits of lead and zinc.But you know what? Those were the best times in my life and I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world…..
If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing well
(Proverb)
Edits: 06/22/12
A friend in Anchorage just did the traditional climb up Flat Top Mountain outside of Anchorage. Groups do this every year for summer solstice (and far fewer for the winter solstice). Taken at midnight on the 21st, looking down over Anchorage and the Cook Inlet.
Some good memories for me. As you know we don’t have any mole hills never mind finding a mountain to climb where I was as we were basically surrounded by tundra. However, the photo above from the highway going to Ft. Providence, N.W.T. does give you an idea of how lush the landscape during the summer.
Anyway, enough of that, were you able to visit the City of Vancouver, British Columbia when you were in Seattle? If you do don’t forget to take the tourist hike at Mt. Seymour for a breath of fresh air and some excellent photo ops of its natural environment that you will ever encounter in your life. Mt. Seymour is part of the sierra that extends all the way down to the state of Washington and Oregon.
If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing well
(Proverb)
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