Location Taken: Snoqualmie Pass, Eastern Washington
Time Taken: October 2012
Sometimes it’s nice to go and visit the clouds.
They hang around so far up, providing rain and shade to lessen the harshness of the sun. Sometimes they even come and visit, and cloak the area in the gentle touch of fog.
It’s tougher to go to where they live.
It requires going upwards, and then up some more.
Like in this case, going across a mountain pass.
On the tall mountains of the Cascades the clouds pile up against the rock. They’re too heavy to cross over with all the water they carry, brought in from the ocean. But the winds push them forward, and the rock pushes them upward, and the water is squeezed out. Eventually the clouds manage to get over the mountain, much lighter than they were before. The thick gray clouds that coast over Seattle become the high white clouds over Spokane.
It was raining lightly when I took this photo.
