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12/21/2005
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Solstice upon us
Author: Sally Pollak Source: Burlington Free Press
Title: Solstice upon us
A celebration of the winter solstice began today in the darkness for a group of friends from Huntington and Shelburne. They were scheduled to meet, pre-dawn, for a head lamp-lighted hike up a mountain ridge near Lincoln.
At the top, they planned to sip cocoa and tea from their thermoses, and watch the sun rise on the winter solstice. (Wishful thinking!) More likely, they saw a gray and cloudy December sky grow gradually lighter on this, the shortest day of the year, with fewer than nine daylight hours in northern Vermont.
"I think we all feel really lucky, watching the world wake up all around us," said Shelly McSweeney, 43, of Huntington. "By the time we start to head back, we're a little bit shivery. Following our tracks back down, it's so much quicker than the way up. We feel a great sense of satisfaction and joy."
Setting aside the great solstice concerns of dark and light, scarcity and plenty, death and regeneration, these friends focus on the great hiker's concern: food. In this case, breakfast at a diner in Bristol.
"It's all about where we can get a great meal," McSweeney said.
At the winter solstice, the Northern Hemisphere is the farthest it can get from the sun during the Earth's yearlong orbit of the sun; the Southern Hemisphere is the closest it can get.
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