Rugged terrain west of Eagle, Colorado, heading toward the even more rugged Flat Tops Wilderness Area, a remote part of the White and Routt national forests where only some mountaintops are somewhat flat. This is prime fishing, hunting, and hiking country whose many mountain headwaters are carefully protected

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Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13).
Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.