At the Continental Divide

This picture is taken at Loveland Pass, Colorado, approximately 12,000 feet (3658 m) elevation. Some adjacent peaks reach 14,000 feet.

 

 

Trees do not grow above the "tree line", which is about 11,000 feet. "The Great Continental Divide", separates the watersheds of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and runs along the Rocky Mountain ridges. Rivers to the West of the Divide drain to the Pacific, and rivers East of the Divide drain to the Atlantic.

 

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