For brightly lit scenes with foreground and background (sky with clouds) elements, meter to capture foreground shadow detail and apply an ND grad filter (I typically use a 2-stop soft) to the sky. Otherwise it is impossible to avoid blowing out at least part of the sky detail.

Many of St. Ansel's most spectacular landscape/cloud photographs (Clearing Winter Storm, etc.) were shot in low contrast situations where the film was better able to retain both shadow and cloud detail.