Another candidate for shot of the year is this shot of Mount Rainier, taken on a hike inside the park. Most of the time, you know the peak is there but you can only rarely see it as Mount Rainier is so high, it creates its own weather patterns. Other shots during the day mostly looked like the two shots below or had no view of the mountain at all, or I was hiking and walking through dense, tree packed forest trails. However, the mountain gave me one excellent view at an excellent time with a nice lenticular cloud being whipped over the peak. Beautiful.
