Eliza isn't the only one living at high altitude! We are visiting her in Leadville, Colorado. While she was hard at work on Monday, David and I took a drive over the "scenic byway" from Leadville to Aspen.
In Leadville, it is still fall with aspens in full fall color brilliant next to the dark of evergreens. The Sawatch Range (Mt. Massive and Mt. Elbert are the main ones we see from here) is snow covered. As we drove along Rt 84, we came to winter at Independence Pass. I have always wanted to stand on the Continental Divide. Rt. 84 is the highest point in Colorado traversed by a paved road. There are places on the road that are single lane and it is closed in the winter. There are many switchbacks and steep overlooks. We stumbled on something amazing. We started out on a drive to Twin Lakes and before we knew it we were having a snow ball fight. It was a great day.
The Continental Divide is the main series of mountain ridges in North America, chiefly the crests of the Rocky Mountains that form a watershed that separates the rivers flowing east into the Atlantic Ocean or the Gulf of Mexico from those flowing west into the Pacific Ocean.
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Wow...first snow of the year...pls keep it up in the mountains for while longer!
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