APRIL 23, 2023

A date that I will not soon forget.

9:58:23 PM

Instead of some catchy title, I'm going with the time, down to the second, because this night was abso-freaking-lutely incredible.

I told my wife that I shouldn't be too long when I left around 9...I got home around 1:15 AM. 🙃

As I was driving up over the mountain pass to my destination I pulled off the road to take a test photo to see if they were visible and I could see some faint green even though the sky wasn't totally dark just yet. I checked a website to see how the KP (magnitude) was doing and it said it was dropping from a 7 to a 3, which is not good, and I almost thought about just going home. I sent a message to a friend and she said the app she was using didn't show a drop, so I decided to press on and give it a go, and a go I gave it.

I pulled up to the location and could see the aurora spiking with my bare eyes. I frantically grabbed my camera and tripod and set it up to shoot video on the side of the road while I grabbed a second camera to get photos of this barn. I didn't even have time or the mind to grab a headlamp so I could navigate the muddy, wet pasture.
I called my Dad to tell him to come join me but I'm pretty he thought I might need to be admitted because I was hooting and hollering like a crazy person...all alone...in a field...by myself. Haha. He was able to see them over the mountains from his house in North Ogden.

After posting some photos and videos to my instagram stories, a few friends showed up to take in this incredibly rare event.