Blair Braverman

They're all back together.

They're trading books.

It's really like kind of a sweet time.

Humans don't hibernate, but we also kind of do.

Yeah, we cuddle up like little potatoes.

On January 25th, the edge of the sun comes over the horizon.

Sarah, I can tell you firsthand what this is like because when I experienced it, it was...

By far one of the most intense experiences of my life.

Yeah?

Tell me about it.

To be clear, Ada's from around Nome, which is below the Arctic Circle.

And the Arctic Circle is the point where there's at least one day a year where the sun doesn't rise at all.

She's used to cold, dark winters, but she's not used to going completely without any sunlight.

Yeah.

When I moved up into the Arctic, I was far enough north that the sun didn't rise for two months straight, which is about about the same amount of time as what they're experiencing on Wrangell Island.

The exact number of days actually depends on like the horizon, like if there are mountains and stuff, because that'll block the very edge of the sun.

So I don't know if it's the exact number of days, but it's pretty close.

My experience of this dark period of time, this time of darkness, as they call it in Norwegian, is it's I liked it.

It's kind of cozy.

It's not pitch black all day long.