A Labor Day Adventure White Mountain Peak, Methusala, and the Inyo National Forest Fires
Coming down the mountain, we were struck by this startling cloud formation. Once back in cell reception territory we were floored to discover that what looked like a supernatural Greek mythology creation was actually an extreme manifestation of a cumulonimbus flammagenitus, also known as the pyrocumulonimbus cloud, a fire-aided or caused convective cloud.