It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life...

Someone once joked that I eat mountains for breakfast. So it felt kind of fitting to start off 2022 with a 3:00am wakeup to go catch the first sunrise of the year from atop a summit, before most had even awoken to nurse their hangovers. We would be the only group to actually make it to the summit for sunrise, and Anita and I stubbornly stayed long enough to ensure we saw the full palette of colours from pre-dawn to fully risen colours of the sun in the sky. It was -26 degrees at the parking lot, and with the wind strafing our faces up top at 7:45am, it felt far colder than that. But while our faces and hands were frozen, I felt a sense of warmth knowing we'd started off the year exactly as I'd envisioned - in the company of good friends, with the promise of new light washing over us.

In the words of the wise Nina Simone, "It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life... and I'm feeling good"

We got to summit while the sky was still quite dark, but the colours of the incoming sunrise were the most intense.


Minutes later, the skies brightened up and headlamps were no longer necessary.


There are worse views to start off the year.




The winds were vicious as we stayed up top. We would only stay long enough to see the full range of colours crest as the sun rose beyond the horizon, before batting a hasty retreat.
















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