Chama, Chama, Chama...

Last place in New Mexico - Chama. Up and over the mountains, through Chama and onto Durango, CO for the last local of my trip out west.

Here are the mountains just East of Chama - with a bunch of snow drifts left from winter...

This was the highest point of my trip between Taos and Durango, but it was not labeled as the "Continental Divide", so I looked it up. I figured the Continental Divide ran along the highest peaks of the Rockies, but that's not necessarily so, it is the line which demarcates the Atlantic and Pacific watersheds. So the line follows the break point for where the water flows, east or west. Turns out that line was a number of miles down the road towards Durango yet, on a large flat plateau between the Eastern and Western prevailing mountain ranges. These images above are part of the Eastern range. Durango is nestled in the Western range.