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The divide is crossed here by the Victory highway over Rabbit 

 Ears Pass, so called from a huge rock shaped much like the ears of a 

 rabbit. In addition to the Rabbit Ears Pass road, there is the Gore 

 road which parallels it a few miles to the south, connecting Kremm- 

 ling on the east with Toponas on the west. Also a road from Steam- 

 boat Springs north to Snake River crosses the forest between Hahns 

 Peak and the Colorado-Wyoming line. 



The many lakes and good fishing streams make the Routt National 

 Forest attractive to summer visitors. Most of these waters are in the 

 northeastern part of the forest and may, for the most part, be reached 

 on horseback. Here also are the rougher mountains which, with a 

 limited amount of big game, make an ideal place for an outing of 

 the more strenuous type. 



Fig. 12. — The canyon in Elk River, Routt National Forest 

 THE WHITE RIVER NATIONAL FOREST 



South and west of the Routt is the White River National Forest, 

 which is roughly rectangular in shape and covers a high, compara- 

 tively level plateau, bordered on the north, south, and east by river 

 valleys, and on the west by the desert. 



The Flat Tops, in the White River National Forest, reaching an 

 elevation of 12,000 feet above sea level, are broad and rolling above 

 timber line. Their sheer, limestone escarpments gradually dissolve 

 into the thickly timbered slopes of the lower talus and high valley 

 formations. In one of the high valleys lies Trappers Lake in a 

 setting of wilderness solitude. Although an auto road from Meeker 

 reaches to within three-fourths of a mile of the lake, only more 

 primitive modes of travel lead directly to it from the end of the road. 



