Sentences with phrase «jamison valley floor»

Workers progressed across the 29 - mile Rift through volcanic rock and over steam vents on the valley floor, and then descended from a summit of over 8,000 feet to Lake Victoria in the valley below — a feat requiring 11,845 running feet of viaducts, some up to 881 feet long and more than 110 feet above the earth.

A mist from the morning — wavering, mysterious — still clings to the valley floor.

While Prosecco DOC is grown on the valley floor of the region, Prosecco DOCG is grown on its rolling hills, forcing it to be hand - harvested.

Although grape growing on anything but the valley floor was deemed difficult and unprofitable, Rod felt that the potential for top quality Cabernet Sauvignon was there, and planted 15 acres of Cabernet.

Modeled after a Greek monastery, Sterling Vineyards was the first winery ever built with the visitor in mind and the only winery in the world with an aerial tram (the winery sits 300 feet above the valley floor where visitors take the tram to access the top quality Bordeaux varietals and majestic 360 degree views of Napa Valley).

We are proud to share these itineraries from large to small, from valley floor to mountains — Experience Alexander Valley.

When it's hot and sunny on the valley floor, the hills can be awash in fog and wind, often 15 degrees cooler.

The deep prolific soils are incredibly diverse from valley floor, to benchland up to high mountain elevation.

During summertime, when the valley floor bubbles with wine tourism, it's very important to know the crossroads that link the two highways in order to get around in a smooth, manageable fashion.

Setback for Opponents of Walt Ranch Vineyard Development A Napa County Superior Court on Tuesday tentatively ruled against the opponents of a vineyard slated to be developed above the Napa Valley floor...

Rich volcanic bedrock and sediment provide a geologic uniformity, while the AVA's diverse topography ranges from steep mountains to valley floor making Calistoga entirely unique to other Napa Valley AVAs.

These vineyards include both mountain and valley floor sites, for a total of 223 planted acres.

The hot air rises and mixes with cooling breezes from the Russian River in the late afternoon until after sunset, cooling the valley floor to about 65 degrees.

Adding to this depth and complexity is the soil, valley floor clay and gravel to mountain side volcanic tuft — centuries old and like no other.

The sound of the charge creates a muffled thunder across the valley floor, with everybody war - whooping, and an advancing wall of dust rises and rolls along behind the horses and runners.

The valley floor has been slashed by highways.

On Dollar 64, on Baldy 76, Valley floor 36.

Mexico City, with its population of 4,500,000, is a crowded, rambling metropolis that occupies a great part of the Valle Méjico, an open, flat area some 50 miles wide, surrounded by a crown of mountains that extends up to 3,000 feet in the air over the valley floor, itself some 7,500 feet above sea level.

How is it You are already there On the valley floor Arms outstretched Ready to catch What hasn't even fallen?

Resting 25 m above the Blue Mountain valley floor, walking across the 126 m suspension bridge on a clear day can give you a view of up to 10,000 square kilometres.

Now curious spiral patterns have been glimpsed at one end of the valley floor — and hold with those who favour fire.

Mesquite bushes have migrated out from dry streambeds and the edges of dry lakes into the valley floor and flatlands.

Their research showed that 98 percent of Bryant's woodrats occupied a boulder - strewn hillside made up of coastal / Sierra vegetation, while 93 percent of the desert woodrats occupied the adjacent valley floor consisting of Mojave desert scrub and a sandy substrate.

The most important fact about the avalanche, said Thompson, is that it lasted only four or five minutes (according to witnesses), yet it managed to bury 3.7 square miles of the valley floor in that time.

Farther north, buttes and mesas resembling the American Southwest flank a flat valley floor.

The mountain for which the park is named rises more than 5,000 feet (1,525 meters) straight up from the valley floor, reaching an altitude of 13,770 feet (4,200 m).

In the fleeting moments before the sunlight struck the valley floor and looming clouds rolled in, he captured «Denali and Wonder Lake.»

The researchers» reconstruction of the former valley floor showed that the slope of the river once increased gradually from the Gangetic Plain to the Tibetan Plateau, with no sudden changes, or knickpoints.

«The important thing about this study is that it demonstrates you can't grow great quantities of corn in the Chaco valley floor,» said Benson, an adjunct curator of anthropology at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History.

A dam on the valley floor, built by a Chinese company, is creating pools of stagnant water that incubate tiger mosquitoes just outside Lola's gates.

All of the trees look dead now, and it snowed on the valley floor yesterday... Now is the time to pull out the earmuffs and the statement coats!

May 14, 2018 • A deep, wide gash has slashed across the Great Rift Valley floor in a geologically hot part of Kenya.

She trusted Gabe to rescue her, but something went wrong high above the valley floor... Sylvester Stallone, John Lithgow, Michael Rooker, Janine Turner and Ralph Waite star in this high - altitude avalanche of action - a non-stop adventure packed with suspense and capped with heart - quaking terror.

Because the3school sits on a hillside that faces west, the wind whisks down the face of the mountain on the opposite side, across the valley floor, and right smack into it.

You've got a nice car, but it's a bit low; look out for potholes on the valley floor!»

The traffic thins, and the warm summer sun energizes valley floors into glowing greens.

As well as looking up at the peaks of the mountains, it's also worth looking down at Austria's longest glacier, the Pasterze, which stretches along the valley floor beneath the peaks.

“ The ranger at the gate to Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park commented, «You've got a nice car, but it's a bit low; look out for potholes on the valley floor!»»

Flanked alternately by battle - scarred rock faces and sheer drops several hundred feet to the valley floor below for much of its length, the road twists and turns like nothing you've ever seen.

The A82 might be lazily draped along the valley floor now, but maybe 15 miles back it was bucking and swooping and narrow.

The train - pulling feat was undertaken on 10 km of track at the Museumsbahn Stein am Rhein in Switzerland, crossing the River Rhine on the dramatic Hemishofen bridge — a historic steel span measuring 935 feet long and soaring 85 feet above the valley floor.

Land Rover went to Switzerland to see what it can do in a Disco Sport, using a six mile track crossing the River Rhine on the Hemishofen bridge some 85 feet above the valley floor.

More than 250 wineries and their tracts of vines divide the valley floor into a patchwork quilt of geographic beauty.

~ The town was positioned in a narrow valley between three sizable mountains and innumerable hills and shelves and finger hollows that ribboned out from the valley floor like veins.

On April 29, 1903, 74 million tons of limestone slid from the top of Turtle Mountain and blanketed nearly three - square kilometers of the valley floor.

He was near the edge of the Forest now, the tall trees had begun to thin out, and as the track began to dip down to the valley floor, Silas could see the whole Castle spread before him.

A hike along the Sonoma Valley floor — winding through oak woodlands, native grasslands and chaparral — trumps the dog park any day.

Hikes are moderately strenuous and take guests from the Sonoma Valley floor up 1,400 feet into the Mayacamas Mountain range.

This thrilling ride passes through a long tunnel and gorge, ending on the valley floor, and is a huge hit with children.

A series of vertical cliffs and dolerite columns stand like huge, isolated hobgoblins of nature 120 metres above the valley floor.