Midnight! And the sun did its best to peek through
the smoky clouds. I got my photo, such as it was. Our hope that the summit would
be high enough to be above the smoke was in vain, but even in the smoke-filtered
light, we could see the tiny alpine flowers that grew all over and a forest of
two small windswept trees. We left as soon as I got my photo but not before the
omni-present mosquitos had several snacks on those areas of my body I'd not managed
to cover.
Earlier, after we'd made it past the fire and
before we turned onto the road that climbed to the summit, we watched the sun
sink towards the smoky horizon, sneaking light and color underneath the dark smokey
clouds for the scene below.
