Hot take: The Grand Canyon doesnt have the best clouds I've seen

I went to the Grand Canyon last month and everyone there was raving about the sunset clouds over the rim. But honestly, the most interesting sky I saw was two days earlier at a random rest stop outside Flagstaff. There was this one flat, gray cloud that looked like a giant anvil sitting low on the horizon, and it stayed perfectly still for over an hour while everything else moved. Has anyone else been surprised by better cloud formations at some random spot instead of a famous viewpoint?

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troy_gibson4326d ago

Totally get that, I've been the guy who drove three hours to a "famous overlook" and got fog so thick I couldn't see my own feet, so my best cloud-spotting skills are clearly questionable anyway. That anvil cloud at a random rest stop sounds way more memorable than the usual touristy sunset, sometimes the boring spots just deliver the goods when you least expect it. Kind of like how I once saw the most perfect rainbow from a Walmart parking lot, not exactly a postcard scene but I still think about it.

ivan52226d ago

My buddy Dave had the same thing happen to him, but with like the most boring sunset you could imagine. He was stuck in traffic on the 405 in LA, just crawling along, and the sun was hitting this smog cloud just right. It turned this gross gray sky into this crazy layered orange and pink thing, like a bruised peach kind of. He still sends me photos of it years later, calls it his "freeway sunset." Funny how the best stuff always shows up when you're not trying to find it.