A Rarity - Sideling Hill Fog

Sideling Hill Fog Bank Sideling Hill, MD looking eastward towards Hancock, MD October 8, 2011 I have crossed Sideling Hill countless times and never encountered such a picturesque fog bank and stopped yesterday around 9:00 am to capture the scene. It had a disappeared by our return at 4:30 pm. The Sideling Hill road cut is a 340 feet (100 m) deep notch excavated from the ridge of Sideling Hill for Interstate 68, about 7 miles (11 km) west of Hancock in Washington County, Maryland. It is notable as an impressive man-made mountain pass, visible from miles away and is considered one of the best rock exposures in Maryland and the entire northeastern United States. Almost 810 feet (250 m) of strata in a tightly folded syncline are exposed in this road cut. Although other exposures may surpass Sideling Hill in either thickness of exposed strata or in quality of geologic structure, few can equal its combination of both. The rocks consist of the Devonian-Mississippian Rockwell Formation underlying the Mississippian Purslane Sandstone. From Wikipedia.