Mountain River

This is a picture of a river named “The Snake River” and it runs directly parallel with the base of small resort in Colorado named Keystone. Keystone sits 10 miles west of the continental divide. If you can’t tell by the photo, the river here is running towards the photographer. The Snake river is made up of water from snowmelt, and runs extremely fast in the late spring/early summer, and slower in the later months of the summer. Some of the snow melt from the continental divide feeds into this river, but there are also many other smaller rivers (tributaries) that feed into this one, making it one of the larger snow melt rivers. This river along with many others from the continental divide and other ranges feed into a large lake named “lake Dillion” which serves as the water supply for Denver.