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‘There are those - pilgrims I call them - who find in mountain climbing what only mountains can give, the contact with unsophisticated Nature, the opportunity to be alone, to be out of and above the world of ordinary life, to pass from the familiar sights and surroundings into a cloudland of new shapes and sounds, where one feels the fascination of that undiscoverable secret (I do not know how else to name it) by which every true nature-lover is allured.’From Pilgrims of the Mountain (1908) by English writer and naturalist Henry Stephens Salt.Stratocumulus with virga and sunlit mamma spotted by Tommy Cobb (Member 58,879) over Lookout Mountain, Georgia, US from the small community of Cloudland, which is clearly where the Cloud Appreciation Society should be setting up office.