Whether from its many great ground-based vantages, or by air as here, Mount Rainier never fails to inspire respect and amazement for its size, beauty and potential danger. In this view, from the east-northeast, the big volcano seems to float amongst or above a deck of thin fog and stratus in the boundary layer, above which the mountaintop extends. All three stratiform cloud types also are visible in this photo: low stratus, altostratus (in midlevels, seen in the distance), and cirrostratus (the uppermost cloud deck).
Above central WA (30 Aug 16) Looking WSW