The mountain is out——above the clouds, anyway. I’m told that people from Washington will say, “the mountain is out” when Mt. Rainier, AKA Tahoma, is visible on the ground. When I flew out of Seattle the other day heading south to Sacramento, the clouds were so thick that I wasn’t expecting to see much from my window seat on the plane. As we flew through the clouds to cruising altitude, I looked out and was stunned to see Mt. Rainier, its 14,411 feet emerging through the clouds, just outside my window. What a spectacular sight. And a little further south, there was Mount St. Helens a little more than half the height of Rainier but it, too, peeked through the clouds. The mountain was certainly out for me but I’m sure no one could see it from the ground.