Fall River
Rocky Mountain National Park, 2007. The Fall River seen from a bridge at Aspenglen Campground. The boulders you see here were all deposited at once, when a dam at Lawn Lake far upstream and high above this point burst in 1982. It washed out a huge gorge along the river's course in the mountain, leaving a depositional alluvial fan against the mountainside at Horseshoe Park and dropping car sized boulders from here to Estes Park. Two campers died at the campground.
Fall River
Rocky Mountain National Park, 2007. The Fall River seen from a bridge at Aspenglen Campground. The boulders you see here were all deposited at once, when a dam at Lawn Lake far upstream and high above this point burst in 1982. It washed out a huge gorge along the river's course in the mountain, leaving a depositional alluvial fan against the mountainside at Horseshoe Park and dropping car sized boulders from here to Estes Park. Two campers died at the campground.