At dawn, a vibrant lenticular vortex cloud glows above Mount Rainier, its edges brushed with the soft pink light of sunrise. The mountain’s icy slopes and rugged ridgelines rise in silhouette beneath the unfolding morning sky. Captured from the Skyline Trail, this rare atmospheric moment reveals the living motion of light, wind, and mountain weather in Mount Rainier National Park.
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