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Just in case you're visually impaired ... here's the sign, closer.
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Those clouds, as it turns out, were carrying a sizable amount of rain and hail. Bastards. We didn't know it at the time, however.
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The heat waves sort of distorted the picture. This is looking back, towards steaming cone, I think.
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This is at the trail junction. The summit cabbin is two miles ahead, the summit is 2.6 miles to the right. You can see the little rock piles on the right. The clouds that were about to dump on us are behind me.
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Looking down across the caldera. The summit cabin is on top of the wall to the left and the summit is on top of the wall to the right.
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The summit isn't quite visible - it's behind that seeming "high point".