And finally a clear evening...

Yesterday afternoon we went out for a drive around stopping along the way to shoot this or that, with a final stop being for the sunset or if that wasn't available, the blue hour. Ultimately we ended up at Husoy, a tiny fishing village on a tiny island.
Our guide knows all the tricks and we stopped high up on the hill and trekked across a fairly steep snowy hillside for about 20-30 metres. There was no place to sit and not much room, so our tripod legs were crossing each other and we each stomped the snow into a small standing platform barely bigger than our feet.  We set up our cameras... and that was it until the light did what we wanted. Unfortunately that was 60 minutes later. The valley where we had just been was -7 so I'm picking that standing on that hillside had to be around -9/10. And it felt it.
That was a very tough hour, standing there you could feel your core temp dropping. I had hand warmers in my 3 pairs of gloves but they were not keeping up & my fingertips were suffering. And yes, I did have plenty of layers on... 7 on my top half to be precise!  The outermost layer was a bit compromised as the zip broke on my big coat a couple of days ago & I was making do with a rain mac over the inner puffer lining. It was fine most of the time but couldn't really keep up with minus temps.
We got back & after a quick shower to thaw out, had dinner at 7.30pm. Over dinner, the evening plan was formulated, based on weather predictions (as always).  As the clouds were to clear late, we were to go to bed and be back at the vehicles by 1am. So I was in bed by 9pm and woke again at 11.50pm.
I looked out of the window and could see the aurora going off above me quite visible despite the street lights. Whoa!  I hurriedly dressed and rushed downstairs to find the van gone (with my tripod). Long story (and much bad language) later, I finally found the group and spent the rest of the evening shooting the aurora until approx 1.30am when another plan was formulated. Those who wanted to, went to bed and would get up again leaving at 5am to shoot sunrise. No thanks.  I stayed put and continued until 3am. I got back to my room & after another warm up shower, was settling with a cuppa when a message came through that the aurora was active again.  It was tempting but I had only just got warm again.... so thanks, but no thanks.

Thought this person was about to get doused but the driver took pity

Husoy

And after all that waiting (& capturing less interesting pics), these 2 images occurred within 5 minutes of each other