Wind can lift snow off mountains so peaks seem to smoke.

Evidence

Then the snow ceased, and a fierce wind blew most of it out of the park, lifting it from the mountains in such clouds as to make Long’s Peak look like a smoking volcano. To-day the sky has resumed its delicious blue, and the park its unrivalled beauty. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 245

Categorization

• FICTION: A supposedly smoking volcano that is only snow on wind is a ready-made landscape reveal for a story.