Where Eagles Fly: Gunsight Pass ~ Along The Continental Divide in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado

These are the expansive, rugged Rocky Mountains of Colorado. On the bottom left foreground of the image lies Gunsight Pass. Interestingly, there are 18 different high mountain locations named Gunsight Pass in the mountains of North America. This one is located above the Middle Fork of the Conejos River deep in the South San Juan Wilderness of the San Juan Mountain Range in the Rocky Mountains.

This high resolution image was lensed out of the open window of my bushplane. Shooting freehand with a Hassleblad H5D 60mpx digital back, the image is spectacularly detailed so please take time to open it full screen to see the details such as the rippling snow along the mountain on the bottom left of the image.

Horizontally along the middle of this image, that long ridge line is both the border between the Rio Grande National Forest and the San Juan National Forest but also this is the Continental Divide. Stretching from the Bering Strait to the north all the way to the Strait of Magellan at the tip of South America, the Continental Divide of the Americas (also known as the Great Divide, the Continental Gulf of Division, or merely the Continental Divide) is the principal, and largely mountainous, hydrological divide of the Americas. 

The Continental Divide separates the eastern watersheds that drain into the Pacific Ocean from the western watersheds whose river systems drain into the Atlantic Ocean (including those that drain into the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea) and, along the northernmost reaches of the Divide, those river systems that drain into the Arctic Ocean.

Though there are many other hydrological divides in the Americas, the primary Continental Divide (Great Divide) is by far the most prominent of these because it tends to follow a line of high peaks along the main ranges of the Rocky Mountains and Andes, at a generally much higher elevation than the other hydrological divisions.
(Research Source)

Across the horizon in this picture are multiple peaks over 12,000ft, 13,000ft and 14'ners or peaks over 14,000ft. 

Here is a link to google maps for the location of this beautiful place. 

I shot this while exploring the wilderness of the Rocky Mountains between Conejos Peak and the hugh mountainous formation known as The Needles. It was winter and very cold at an altitude of 13,500 feet. 

Me at work in my aerial camera platform ~ The Bluebird

These images are from my ongoing project, "Where Eagles Fly";

About The Project

Where Eagles Fly - The American Wilderness Expedition is my personal mission to introduce people to these amazing locations that surround us. I am piloting a bush plane while exploring and filming throughout the remote back-country areas of North America to raise awareness of the 47% of the USA and 90% of Canada that remain unpopulated wilderness.

About The Author

My name is Zedekiah Morse and I'm a Bush Pilot, Photographer, Explorer and Filmmaker. I live in the Rocky Mountains and devote my time and resources to exploring as much of the world as I can by air. If you wish to watch a short film detailing how I do my work and this project, go here. 

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