The Rocky Mountains command this part of the world. Vast, humbling, magestic, they define this part of the world. Vertically, they soar above 14,440 feet or 4,401 meters.

Spanning 40 degrees of latitude, some 4,800 kilometres or 2,980 miles, they run the length of North America from Liard Plain in BC's north to the Rio Grande in New Mexico.

The mountains you see north of the Liard river, into the Yukon, are often grouped in with the Rockies, but are actually part of the Mackenzie Mountain system. The river systems that gather and wind their way out of these mountains head in all directions.

It is hard to fathom the vast reach of this mountain range. Four individual raindrops falling on these high peaks could easily end up thousands of miles apart. Picture them falling together, then instantly splitting apart into four droplets, each joining its own stream.

One would flow north to the Beaufort Sea, another could easily reach the the Gulf of Mexico, a third would be quickly absorbed into Hudson Bay to the east and the last into the vast Pacific.
The Rocky Mountains, vast yet quietly humbling, define this part of the world. Vertically, they soar above 14,440 feet(4,401 m). Spanning 40 degrees of latitude, some 4,800 kilometres((2,980 mi), they run the length of North America from Liard Plain in BC's north to the Rio Grande in New Mexico. The mountains you see north of the Liard river, into the Yukon, are often grouped in with the Rockies, but are actually part of the Mackenzie Mountain system. The river systems that gather and wind their way out of these mountains head in all directions.

Four individual raindrops falling on these high peaks could easily end up thousands of miles apart -- one flowing north to the Beaufort Sea, another reaching the the Gulf of Mexico, a third would be absorbed into Hudson Bay to the east and the last into the vast Pacific.