Nice composition. Does ACR have a DeHaze slider? From the treeline up to the top of the image, DeHaze would do wonders to cut through the atmosphere.
I do my best not to disturb the atmosphere, wherein I live. My photography goal is to show what I saw, and not what might be done to change the moment; our archives are our memories, nothing more.
In my version of PSE, dehaze seems to have its own mind about what we saw, so I don't use it, hopefully trying to recreate the moment, rather than something we did not see.
Good day Fred - I downloaded your pic to trying cropping off the left to create a square - it did not not compare with your composition and was quickly discarded!
Thanks for posting an image representing what you saw and resisting the temptations of,"what if". I have been looking for this mountain for decades. Around 1950 while traveling with my family I was fascinated by the dark stripe in this mountain and for some reason the question as to what that stripe might represent stuck with me for a decade or more until I was fascinated by my first geology class where an obvious answer unfolded and historical geology became an ever expanding set of questions. I have never been able to determine where first I saw that mountain and have searched scenic images from the general area for years expecting to see this particular mountain, but I was looking at an area further north. So you would never have guessed you might make someone's day in this way with your fine image.
I can admire what the artistic license of digital filters and programs has unleashed, but when a photographer says this is what I saw by using them I think no one else will see that so brilliantly in real life.
You have one of those postcard pastoral scenes that have inspired my photography. Your picture very much appeals to the eye, and it has an effective composition. Nicely done.
I will say on my computer monitor the sky appears to have a little magenta color cast to it. You might want to isolate the sky and then try to correct it using the Color Balance adjustment tool.
A slight brightening of the sky might improve its eye appeal, too. A natural-looking sky enhances the realism of a landscape photograph. And it produces a better sense of presence.