Last full day in the Park(s) for this trip.
I started the day by heading east over the Norris-Canyon Road. I took the Virginia Cascades drive and stopped for another morning photo from the meadow above the cascades. On this morning, fog and smoke from the Cygnet Complex fires combined for a surreal sunrise.
Thus the theme of the day was established – FIRE.
I found foliage mimicking tongues of flame.
Fiery fireweed stood like torches on an island on Sylvan Lake.
The Cygnet Complex fire was actively burning along the Norris-Canyon road, up to the power line corridor.
By mid-afternoon I found myself back in the meadow above Virginia Cascades, watching the active Cygnet Complex fires from where I could watch the smoke plumes without being socked in smoke. I was mesmerized by the braiding of the white, gray and black streams of smoke. Over the 9 minutes in the video below, the fire grew considerably.
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