Sentences with phrase «narrow valley»

Hydraulic dams squeezing through narrow valleys down river force the water level higher than the tallest buildings to be built in what becomes Portland, Oregon.

Gradually, your sights will glide down to the neck curves leading to the sultrily elevated mountains and the deep narrow valley between them.

The sparsely populated interior territory further inland is characterized by rugged, often steep mountains, bisected by rivers and their typically narrow valleys and canyons, and dense redwood, Douglas fir, and oak forests.

When these dams fail, they can cause sudden and catastrophic outburst floods that send water ricocheting into narrow valleys below.

One element of evangelicalism remains in continuity with 19th - century evangelicalism (then mainstream Protestantism), and has never passed through the narrow valley where fundamentalists fought modernists.

Crossing the narrow valley, he could go directly into the temple area through a gate in the eastern wall of the city.

For the next 2 weeks home was a narrow valley on a clear stream, with flat land for our dozen tents and the large dining tent.

Ancient Egypt was a narrow valley that was bordered on either side by extensive deserts.

The Wave (R for profanity and shocking images) Disaster flick, set in the fjords of Norway, about a geologist's (Kristoffer Joner) race to save a tourist retreat nestled in a narrow valley from a giant tsunami about to crush everything in its path.

~ 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.

«Caracas extends along the length of a narrow valley, enclosing and restraining it on its edges, so that on a short walk you will be climbing the surrounding hills, and there, with the progressive city laid out before your feet, you will begin to see a new aspect of its multifaceted makeup.»

This narrow valley is nestled in the soft rolling hills just outside the redwood forest that leads to the rocky shores of the Mendocino coast.

These tall terraces which run up the narrow valley are irrigated by an aqueduct from Pachatusan, the mountain above the site.

Springbok lies in a narrow valley between the high granite domes of the Klein Koperberge, which are locally referred to as Klipkoppe.

A narrow valley winds its way into the heart of the mountain, with a river charting its course.

Travel the Harz Mountains, the highest range in northern Germany, by train on the Brocken and Selketal Railways for scenic journeys through spruce woodland and narrow valleys.

A paradise for nature lovers, hikers and trout fishers as well, San Gerardo de Dota is a tiny farming community that sits in the narrow valley of the Savegre River, an excellent place to catch trout.

We continue down into the narrow valley of Cuzco (3,310 m / 10, 857»).

Discover high waterfalls in the national park's narrow valleys, ranging from the impressive Triplet Falls to secluded falls over fern - fringed pools.

Springbok Inn lies in a narrow valley, surrounded by the Koperberg, in the heart of the Namaqualand.

Treasure Chest in the Narrow Valley 47.

Fly Through the Narrow Valley 46.

After the sixth coin, the track leads the racers through a narrow valley, where another coin can be collected.

Their new 100 million pound computer is designed to overcome this problem and in particular to forecast heavy rain events in the narrow valleys that are prone to flooding the towns at the bottom, such as Boscastle.

For decades, air pollution from local manufacturing operations had been settling over the narrow valleys in central Slovenia's historically industrial towns.

Landslides have always been an issue for the city due to its steep hills, clay soil and narrow valleys, but they usually occur in late spring and early early summer.

The viewing angle from the building is slightly inclined, giving an even more dramatic view of the strikingly beautiful mountains on the opposite side of the narrow valley.