Fantastic picture! Looks very much like the cover of one of my favorite books, "The Way of the Wild Heart" by John Eldredge. You didn't snap this for his book did you? ;) I went skiing on Mt. Hood once about 10 years ago...kicked my butt, but it was a great place. Such a beautiful mountain and your picture does it due justice!
Super job here and weren't you lucky that the wind decided to kick up a little of the snow just as you were ready to take the photo? Great colors and shadows.
"I never looked for it, gave it no name; yet I knew it always, when the gift of peace came. I stood quite still for the moment that it lasted...Then the light shifted slightly and the moment passed, leaving me...with the lasting echo of its presence.." Diana Gabaldon
You will be led to the knowledge of the internal things which are invisible to you, by the external things which you see before you. . . . Even so then, we can represent to ourselves in thought the Author of all that is, by contemplating and admiring the (visible) things which He has made, and ever brings into being.
- Hermes