I had to share this video. For years I worked in an office with a south window just a block down the street from the museum from which this was taken, and I have seen the low arc of the sun over the Alaska Range. This video was on the Alaska Dispatch as a time-lapse of the Mayan Apocalypse (which just happened to be the Winter Solstice) with comments from the photographers.
The museum (and my old office) are on a ridge north of the Tanana Valley, with the main part of Fairbanks to the southeast, and part of the residential portion of College directly to the south. The bright patch below the Alaska Range on the horizon is the sun reflecting off the top of the ice fog; the discrete streamers are exhaust from chimneys.
Wow, that was really beautiful! I really hope I can visit Alaska in the near feature. I want to visit both in summer and winter. Its a photographer’s dream. Montana, too – another place I would love to visit. Happy New Year!
You have to be above the ice fog to see it, though. Otherwise all you see is fog.