Surprises

Colorado was full of surprises. I was driving across the I-70 corridor, flanked on both sides by heavy mountains when it would suddenly level out, rivers would pass by, and then swallowed up by mountains again.

I took the next exit, doubled back and found a wonderful tributary spashing down from the mountain.

The heavy undergrowth cut some of the wind but it was cold up there (duh! right? I was 12,000 feet up).

In any case, the actual waterfalls I wanted to see were closed off, so these crystal clear rapids substituted nicely.