Sentences with phrase «at the foot of a mountain in»

Seems the bears snack on the fruits that are found at the foot of the mountains in spring and then make the climb to higher elevations to enjoy young leaves and buds and flowers, particularly as the season progresses.

This original 140 - year old Karoo Cottage is situated at the foot of the mountain in Nieu Bethesda.

A modern ski lodge with classical accents, the family - owned Sporthotel is nestled at the foot of a mountain in the lovely Engadine Valley.

A 922 - square - foot bungalow at the foot of a mountain in North Vancouver.

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The company chose its current location in part because it's built on solid bedrock at the foot of Burnaby Mountain, capable of withstanding the pulses from the pistons.

Nightly rooms at the Sheraton Grand hotel in Nashville start at $ 359, but includes a penthouse viewing party, and in Jackson Hole, Wyo., the well heeled will take a gondola up to the top of the ski mountain for a viewing party at 10,450 feet, complete a resident astronomer, telescopes and mimosas.

Avalaunch Media is a full - service digital marketing agency nestled at the foot of Utah's Wasatch Mountains in the burgeoning tech hub known as Silicon Slopes.

So when we left an 80 - degree Florida on Black Friday and arrived in Seattle a week later to find a foot of snow settling 20 minutes away at the base of the mountains, my world was rocked.

Patsy Keller, a Burke County woman who grew up at the foot of the mountain, said three things must happen in order for you to see the Brown Mountain Lights: «You must have your eyes focused on where tmountain, said three things must happen in order for you to see the Brown Mountain Lights: «You must have your eyes focused on where tMountain Lights: «You must have your eyes focused on where they are.

I once lived in a village in Germany that lay at the foot of a mountain covered in deep forest.

As a babe he was pinned to the mountain, his feet pierced with a nail, and Claude Levi - Strauss emphasizes the lameness implied in his name and that of his forebears.14 Oedipus was then blocked at the crossroads by Laius, and later stopped by the Sphinx.

-- If then the solitary man who ascends Mount Moriah, which with its peak rises heaven - high above the plain of Aulis, if he be not a somnambulist who walks securely above the abyss while he who is stationed at the foot of the mountain and is looking on trembles with fear and out of reverence and dread dare not even call to him — if this man is disordered in his mind, if he had made a mistake!

Here, at the foot of the mountain, Moses cast into the moral rubble the tables of the testimony already in effect reduced to powder and ashes.

I also make the recipes when I'm at sea level and when we are in the mountains (at 8,000 feet) and they work in both of those places too.

At the foot of the mountains on Vancouver Island nestled by Comox Lake, it's a charming community with a strong belief in supporting your neighbor and local businesses.

«Irrabina» is a 200 acre organically certified farm at 1,000 metres on the Gwydir River at the foot of Mt Yarrowyck (aboriginal paintings) next to Browns» Mountain (koalas) in the New England Region of New South Wales, Australia breeding traditional Galloway cattle based on Scottish bloodlines.

Over in Provo, Utah, at the foot of the Wasatch Mountains, BYU Coach Stan Watts has no more worries about who should start at center, 6» 11» Craig Raymond or 6» 11» Jim Eakins.

Higher in the mountains, up at around 7,400 feet, where one can look down on Reno lying in the next valley, are thick groves of cedar and aspen.

Not much later the biggest mountain - rescue operation in U.S. history was launched — a woman in one of the other parties was reported in distress from exhaustion at the same time, complicating the situation — and after four days of suffering in a tent Day was lifted off the mountain by a helicopter flying some 1,300 feet above its rated ceiling.

Steve Zabel, an Oklahoma tight end at the time, recalls the day Buck Nystrom, the offensive line coach, got peeved at the taxi - squad players who were going against his linemen in the «board drill,» in which two players lined up at opposite ends of an eight - foot - long plank and ran into each other like mountain goats, the winner being the one left standing on the board.

You're probably never going to stop anyone charging at you by throwing a leather glove at them from 15 feet away — he had about as much chance of affecting the actually Rocky Mountains as he did someone in a Rockies jersey — but it's a fair strategy in the moment.

The village is at 7,500 feet and sits in stunning isolation, a speck of human presence in a panorama of raw mountain beauty.

When they are old and gray, with grandkids cluttered like leaves at their feet, they will be able to brag that they were present and accounted for on that day in November 1998 when one of the greatest basketball players of all time came to Whiteriver, Ariz., in the White Mountain Apache Reservation, to help coach the boys.

I was at Stratton when my step - brother and Jake Burton Carpenter and their friends developed the first snowboards in the 1970s and watched as they rocketed down the mountain at breakneck speeds and launched for what were, at the time, heart stopping jumps off of four - foot ramps.

In 1969, Robert Redford (the actor) purchased land at the base of beautiful 12,000 - foot Mount Timpanogos in Utah's Wasatch Mountains..In 1969, Robert Redford (the actor) purchased land at the base of beautiful 12,000 - foot Mount Timpanogos in Utah's Wasatch Mountains..in Utah's Wasatch Mountains....

The highest point is on the Massachusetts state line near the summit of Alander Mountain, at approximately 2,110 feet (643 m) above sea level, in the town of Copake.

The highest point in the county is the summit of Brace Mountain, in the Taconics, at 704 m (2,311 feet) above sea level.

The Dutchess County line is crossed in a pair of 842 - foot (257 m) tunnels under Breakneck Ridge at Breakneck Point; across the river Storm King Mountain is seen.

In fact, throughout his childhood and throughout his life, his father's mantra — «Take one step at a time, put one foot in front of the other, keep moving, and don't look up the mountain» — has resonated with him and served him welIn fact, throughout his childhood and throughout his life, his father's mantra — «Take one step at a time, put one foot in front of the other, keep moving, and don't look up the mountain» — has resonated with him and served him welin front of the other, keep moving, and don't look up the mountain» — has resonated with him and served him well.

It was found at an elevation of about 5,200 feet in the Muller Range mountains.

Carrying placards saying «future scientist» and «science is for everyone,» they made their way with their adult companions to the Cape Town Science Centre that nestles at the foot of Table Mountain in the suburb of Observatory.

Years later, this old fellow waits for young disciples to make it up the mountain cliffs and sit at his feet while he meditates on the meaning of the universe - and, of course, on the job - seeking process in the life sciences.

the south - bound expedition had cleared that vast plain of floating ice which flows down from the great mountains of the interior and covers the southern part of Ross Sea throughout an area above 20,000 square miles with an ice sheet approximately 800 feet in thickness, and had begun to climb the heights which form the mountainous embayment at the head of Ross Sea.

More recently, other well - preserved mummies — not skeletons — have been found at altitudes of 8,000 feet in the valleys of the Altai Mountains.

An analysis of forest species in six French mountain ranges (the western Alps, northern Pyrenees, Massif Central, western Jura, Vosges and the Corsican range) shows that more than two thirds of them moved at least 60 feet (18.5 meters) higher on the mountainsides per decade during the 20th century.

Mather and her three colleagues spent 6 weeks in Chile, 3 of which they lived in a schoolhouse in a small village at the foot of the mountain.

When he died in 1969 at the age of 73, it was from a heart attack while hiking at an altitude of 9,000 feet in the mountains of Colombia.

Examining museum skins revealed that this new species was also smaller overall with a longer and denser coat; field records showed that it occurred in a unique area of the northern Andes Mountains at 5,000 to 9,000 feet above sea level — elevations much higher than the known species of olingo.

Nevertheless, in the west, images of telltale piles of debris at the foot of mountains revealed the precise location of horizontal test shafts.

At nearly 14,000 feet, the mountain offers an untainted view of the heavens that is increasingly rare in a lit - up world, a view that makes an astronomer's work a lot easier.

It was onion - harvesting season in the fertile valley at the foot of the Crystal Mountains, and the roads were noisy with overloaded motorcycles carrying the produce to larger market towns, kicking up plumes of ocher dust.

Scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge said this week that the rover Curiosity will land at the foot of the Red Planet's Mount Sharp, allowing it to perform its key scientific mission and then wander up the mountain.

A new high - definition camera has been installed at the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA), providing a 24/7 interactive view of the telescope's mountain home at 16,500 feet above sea level.The new camera provides a live 360 - degree view of the activities at ALMA's «high site» throughout the year and can be used interactively to explore the site in all directions in exquisite detail.

The NASA - funded experiment, run by the University of Hawaii, required the scientists to live in a small dome set in a Mars - like environment on Mauna Loa mountain at about 8,200 feet above sea level.

Whether you're bouldering in the gym just 5 feet off the ground, sport climbing 60 feet off the ground, or up in the mountains climbing at 13,000 feet, this sport will definitely give you a rush of adrenaline.

Keep in mind though that I'm an avid hiker and mountain biker in the summer, and I live at high elevation (7500 feet above sea level), so I get a good deal of daily sun, which is why my levels jumped from 35 - 52 ng / ml after a couple months of daily summer sun.

At the foot of the mountains on Vancouver Island nestled by Comox Lake, it's a charming community with a strong belief in supporting your neighbor and local businesses.

Begin in Tadasana (Mountain Pose) at the top of your mat and step your left foot a leg's distance back.

On Everest, one of the most frightening parts of the mountain is the Khumbu Icefall, two - thousand vertical feet of massive columns of glacial ice that can shift around at any moment and come tumbling down in a gigantic ice avalanche, crushing everything in their paths.

At the foot of the mountains on Vancouver Island nestled by Comox Lake, it's a charming community with a strong belief in supporting your neighbor and local businesses.