Wildfires burning to the east.

Storm clouds forming to the west and south, soon to be followed by seemingly endless peals of thunder and flashes of lightning.

Much of the landscape showing the aftereffects of wildfire damage.

Such were the sights to see north of Santiam Pass on the Pacific Crest Trail on the way to see Three Fingered Jack.

Duffy Lake and Duffy Butte

Black Butte obscured in smoke from a wildfire on Green Ridge nearby

Mowich Lake (somehow protected from the multiple wildfires)