Day 2...sorta

[hamstar]

I missed yesterday.
First the power went out, which was brief, but enough impetus, and I picked up a low-tech object called a book.
After that I didn't want to put down the book and read until sleep took over after requisit updates to strava, instagram and other chronicles of the day's adventure.

Comments

[fudgepacking]

Dude, now I want to create a persona with the stage name of Mammatus Cloud.

What book are you/were you reading?

[hamstar]

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mendel.

With that persona you'd either need to be a new age healer or a stripper.

[sayga]

Huh, my dad is a weather nut too but I've never heard of that cloud type. My parents had a great time giggling about the name when we visited the Grand Teton Mountains though. :P

[hamstar]

It's usually a cloud that's part of a storm cloud. You probably saw them living in Tucson, but they are often dwarfed by giant things (stratocumulus clouds) but they tend to happen on the underbelly of giant clouds those. Too see them you need in to be warm enough at the ground for it not to rain and too warm in the clouds for hail.

Also, the Tetons, I try and imagine being a French explorer, away from everything familiar for months on end. No women, same damn people, hacking through brush, constantly tired, hungry, never getting a decent nights sleep and desperately lonely. Then and only then could those mountains look like the Tetons they are named after.