Inversion

Wikipedia reports: “In meteorology, an inversion is a deviation from the normal change of an atmospheric property with altitude. It almost always refers to a ‘temperature inversion’, i.e., an increase in temperature with height, or to the layer (‘inversion layer’) within which such an increase occurs.”

This is the view from the top of Elk Mountain early last Saturday morning. For much of the day, nearly the entire landscape rested under a thick silver blanket. Sugarloaf Mountain and Mount Ararat, the highest point in Wayne County and less than 100 feet lower than Elk, were a couple of the few points that remained visible above the cloud bank.

After skiing down through the clouds, it was a joy to tell the other skiers who had yet to ride to the top of the mountain of the uncommon, beautiful site that awaited them on the summit.