Twilight under a mountain shadow of Tahoma and back to camp by 11pm. 🏔⛺️📝 With no clearing insight the long range June weather forecast was calling for a mixed bag (winter conditions at upper elevations.) And for the most part NOAA was spot on. Well accustomed to the slow roast, Nat and I waited to see what Mother Nature had in store. While totally content with visually taking in the @highcountrysurf potential, we brewed up some grub. Just as we’re packing up, right on cue, the seas began to part and the upper mountain appeared. Was it luck or the dehydrated chicken pho we had for lunch? Either way it was time to make the most of this nice little window. ✨Dream, believe, and achieve. Field trip notes: Mountain shadows look triangular regardless of the mountain’s shape. This is a perspective effect. You are standing at the top edge of a long tunnel of shadowed air and looking along it’s length. The tunnel’s cross section is the shape of the mountain but its “end” is so far away that it looks insignificant. The finite size of the sun also causes the umbral (fully shaded) parts of the shadow to converge and eventually taper away. The tapering sets limits to the umbral length of shadows. That of the Earth is over a million miles. That of a high mountain can be two or three hundred miles. Triangular shadows are not seen from objects much smaller than mountains because their shadows are not long enough. Photo: @nathanielmurphy #jonessolution @jonessnowboards @patagonia_snow