http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2015/07/mount_shasta_new_age_spiritualism_bigfoot_ufos_yaktavians_telos_and_ascended.html

As I approach Mount Shasta on Highway 89, the thick clouds slide away for a second to show its peak. In the same way that my first response to seeing a black bear is, “What a big Labrador!” my brain initially reaches for the everyday explanation: The “mountaintop” must actually be a cloud. It’s too many degrees above the horizon; it rises too steeply; it doesn’t look the way mountains look.