Sentences with phrase «granite mountains»

The scenery was stunning — pink granite mountains, white sandy beaches and crystal clear water.

Outstanding 2012 @CronkiteNews profile of Granite Mountain Hotshots by @CDRadnovich & @CoryGalvan.

Choose whatever walk suits you, ranging from the easy 10 minute walk to Sleepy Bay to the challenging three hour (return) walk to the summit of Mount Amos in the range of granite mountains known as the Hazards.

We started at the Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center which is one of 39 Natural Reserves in the University of California.

Teller has firefighting drama Granite Mountain due on 22 September, and is in PTSD drama Thank You For Your Service, which doesn't appear to have a UK release date as of yet.

Bowling Green Bay National Parks As the region's largest coastal park 57,900 ha, Bowling Green Bay National Park contains diverse habitats set against a backdrop of rugged granite mountains.

For 17 years he has directed the Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center, a 9,000 - acre enclave operated by the University of California, Riverside, in the middle of the Mojave National Preserve, 75 miles from the nearest town.

This was titled Granite Mountain Hotshots before being changed to Only the Brave.

The film directed by Joseph Kosinski, based on the real - life Granite Mountain Hotshots who battled a devastating Arizona wildfire, hovers around the character of Brendan (a.k.a. «Donut»), played by Miles Teller.

A team of 20 men, wildland firefighters from Arizona proudly answering to the name Granite Mountain Hotshots, are tightly bound together by mutual trust and love of the dangerous job they do.

Yet he's matched by Taylor Kitsch and James Badge Dale, the duo portraying two longtime members of Marsh's unit, the fast - talking showman Christopher MacKenzie and the stoic Granite Mountain Hotshots second - in - command Jesse Steed.

A wild and unforgiving place with dark forests, cold granite mountains and hard scrabbled earth covered by dense, uneven fields of ice and snow.

It is noted for its breath - taking scenery with immense granite mountains, spectacular waterfalls and ancient sequoia trees.

The changeable weather and craggy granite mountains surrounding the lake gave it a real alpine feel.

Enjoy the FOUR SEASONS, lots of winery & food related events, orienteering, challenging diirt mountain roads, beautiful eastern fall granite mountain country.

In a tournament, players will charge through diverse geographical track settings, e.g. between the redwood trees and sheer granite mountain faces of Yosemite National Park.

You can donate to the families of the heroic Granite Mountain Hotshots here.

Explore a peninsula of pink granite mountains, pure white beaches and azure bays in Freycinet National Park.

Joseph Kosinski's steadily absorbing tribute pulls inspiration from the GQ article by Sean Flynn, dedicating the bulk of its two - hour running time to fleshing out a handful of the 20 - member Granite Mountain Hotshots, a Prescott, Arizona - based squad who faced the ultimate test when they came up against the infamously deadly Yarnell Hill fire in the summer of 2013.

Deadline is reporting that X-Men: Apocalypse and EastEnders star Ben Hardy is set to join the cast of the upcoming firefighter drama Granite Mountain (formerly titled No Exit).

They were known as the Granite Mountain Hotshots, but to us they were sturdy, sweaty, smoke - stained neighbors, fathers, friends, husbands, sons and uncles.

Prescott, Arizona, welcomes home a procession of hearses of 19 firefighters after a 100 - mile procession, returning the bodies of members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots.

In tunnels deep inside a granite mountain at Daya Bay, a nuclear reactor facility some 55 kilometers from Hong Kong, sensitive detectors are hinting at the existence of a new form of neutrino, one of nature's most ghostly and abundant elementary particles.

So perhaps when the sun rises on a planet orbiting HIP 56948, it casts a familiar, warming yellowish - while light — a light that falls on blue seas, green leaves and granite mountains.

For fourdays at a stretch, he'd trap intensively on one - quarter of his grid.The work was so intense that he had to stop and take a break, hikingthe Providence and Granite Mountains; then he'd return to trap anotherquarter.

But all she could think about was the Granite Mountain Hotshots.

Only the Brave will tell the story of the Granite Mountain Hot Shots, the team that took on a wildfire in Yarnell, Arizona that would go on to become the deadliest U.S. wildfire since the 1991 East Bay Hills fire, and the deadliest incident of any kind for United States firefighters since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

All 20 members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots were summoned to fight the Yarnell Hill fire.

She's talking about the Granite Mountain Hotshots.

The Granite Mountain Hotshots (one of about 110 elite units in the nation) are based in Prescott, 30 miles northeast of Yarnell, in the higher - altitude pine forests of the Bradshaw Mountains.

Meanwhile, Taylor is currently busy working on true - life tale «Granite Mountain» and also trying to set up his directorial debut, «Pieces».

It's the story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a team dropped in to dig firebreaks and set off controlled burns in the Arizona hills near Prescott.

Duane Steinbrink (Jeff Bridges), the town's fire chief, is the elder statesmen, and Eric repeatedly leans on the man's wisdom and experience, particularly when trying to strategize ways to get his crew's hotshot certification (they eventually become the Granite Mountain Hotshots).

The patience the film shows in exploring the dynamic of the Granite Mountain Hotshots as an ever - shifting but carefully balanced ecosystem allows for even the most archetypal characters here to feel fleshed out and genuinely human.

The Granite Mountain Hotshots became the first municipal wildfire - fighting crew in US history, and the first half of Only The Brave details what it took for them to achieve that.

Filed Under: Movies, News, Scott Davis Tagged With: Alex Russell, Andie MacDowell, Ben Hardy, Granite Mountain

«Only the Brave» is the story of the real - life Prescott, Arizona firefighting unit known as the Granite Mountain Hotshots.

The film is based on the real - life of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, «an elite group of 20 firefighters who courageously battled one of the deadliest wildfires in history -LSB-...]

Joseph Kosinski's fact - based account of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a group of Arizona firefighters whose de facto battlegrounds included the devastating Yarnell Hill Fire of 2013, is so squarely old - fashioned that it's a little jarring to notice that many of the characters have smartphones.

The movie begins before the Granite Mountain crew has achieved this designation — they're «type 2» firefighters who hang farther back — with supervisor Eric Marsh (Josh Brolin) desperate for the upgrade.

If you haven't seen the Only the Brave trailers, the film is based on the true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots who battled the Yarnell Hill wildfire, which blazed through Arizona in June 2013.

Only the Brave: Based on the true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a group of elite firefighters who risk everything to protect a town from a historic wildfire.

Based on the GQ article «No Exit,» co-writers Ken Nolan and Eric Warren Singer deftly adapt the story of Arizona's Granite Mountain Hotshots, the first group of municipal firefighters to achieve elite «Hotshot» status.

Filmed under the working title «Granite Mountain Hotshots,» it is the true...

Lionsgate also has Granite Mountain, the Arizona wildfire drama with Josh Brolin and Miles Teller, opening wide.