Sure wish OUR continent had a little more dark!

Seems like where ever I've gone camping in the US, I can't leave leave home without the light pollution.

When I lived in Washington state, my cousins and I would go camping at Windy Ridge, just on the southern edge of Mt. St. Helen's blast zone. A majestic spot: you had Mt. Bachelor to the south, Adams to the east, Ranier to the north and St. Helens to the west. You could look down into St. Helen's caldera and see her steamy breath rising out.

At night, to the south you had light pollution from Portland/Vancouver, Yakima to the east, Seattle to the north and Longview/Kelso to the west.

Of course, I won't begin to mention California's problem...

It's a fact of life that we're stuck with, but it would be nice to go back to Iceland some winter, go up into the Reykjennes at night, and gaze from horizon to horizon and see no sign of humans. On some peaks, you can look straight up and see nothing but black sky and billions of stars through your entire range of sight: no sulphur-light pink horizons, no airplanes tugging for your eyes' attention.

Oh well...

MrPex