Mount Charleston Enveloped in Clouds and Snow

Mount Charleston is blanketed by an envelope of winter clouds and cloaked by snow at higher elevations in this image I lensed while flying and exploring the Red Rock area west of Las Vegas Nevada. In the immediate foreground on the left side of the image is Rainbow Mountain, Bridge Mountain is in the center bottom and the White Rock Hills lay under the shadow of overhead clouds.  

This image was captured early in the morning so the canyon rocks have a beautiful reddish glow from the angle of the sunlight illuminating them.  Behind those the banded hillside of La Madre Mountain hangs above Switchback Spring and behind that on both the right and left side of the image you can see the snow covered sides of Lovell Summit on the left and Harris Mountain on the right. 

This is all part of the Toiyabe National Forest, a truly odd park!  This park does not resemble most other National Forests in that it has numerous fairly large but non-contiguous sections scattered about most of the state of Nevada and a portion of eastern California. Its 10 ranger districts are scattered across the many mountain ranges in Nevada, from the Santa Rosa Range in the north to the Spring Mountains near Las Vegas in the south. 

A part of the forest (about 11%) is in eastern California, in the areas around Bridgeport and Markleeville, and other areas east of the Sierra Nevada.The forest lies in 13 counties in Nevada and 6 in California. The counties with the largest amount of forest land are Nye, Elko, and White Pine in Nevada, and Mono County in California, but there are 15 other counties with land in this widely dispersed forest. Forest headquarters are located in Sparks, Nevada.
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