This is a photo of Mt. Rainer, poking up through the clouds. I took this outbound from Seattle with my camera phone (AT&T Tilt 3MP, not bad!). Note the broken up clouds eastward behind the mountain; this is its "rain shadow". At 14K feet, Rainier disrupts the weather around it so that weather coming in from the west drops its moisture on the mountain. The Paradise Inn on the western slope has received up to 90 feet of snow in a winter!
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