This picture was taken at over 14,000 feet in colorado on July 25th. As you can see there are many patches of snow that remain on the mountains. Not only do these snow chutes look like a bunch of rivers, but they actually turn into rivers as the melting season continues. Each one of these chutes creates there own little river as they melt, and the melted snow feeds into bigger and bigger rivers. These “little rivers” are the backbone of some of the major rivers in the west.
While I was having a conversation with my roommate about his hometown, La Jolla, he mentioned something about living on the coast of California that I thought was really interesting. For context, he was about to leave for New York City, and I was telling him about its grid pattern and how it’s quite simple to navigate. He then mentioned that he always figures out directions to places in La Jolla based on their position along the coastline. He thinks about which way he has to drive in relation to the coast. I certainly use “checkpoints” to help me figure out directions in my hometown, but I think it’s very interesting that he uses the ocean for this purpose.
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