Ute Pass narrows to barely room for torrent and blasted wagon road together

Evidence

The mineral fountains were sparkling in their basins and sending up their full perennial jets but the snow-clad, pine-skirted mountains frowned and darkened over the Ute Pass as I entered it to ascend it for twenty miles. A narrow pass it is, with barely room for the torrent and the wagon road which has been blasted out of its steep sides. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 176

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in landscape narrative and to the worldbuilding logic in ‘Grafting & Growth’ of terrain dictating the shapes human infrastructure can take.