Sentences with phrase «nearby mountain»

He had proposed at the summit of a hike up a nearby mountain on the Appalachian Trail, and I remember thinking how I wished we could just stay up at that peak forever.

In downtown Colorado Springs, Pikes Peak Avenue is named after the famous nearby mountain, which is part of the Rocky Mountains.

To be sure, much of the land they left behind is rocky and difficult to till — «when it came to growing turf,» Washburn writes, «the golf course developers simply dug out a nearby mountain to extract sufficient red earth for topsoil.»

Others who have observed nearby mountain ranges even found that glaciers there were advancing.»

Furthermore, cities where the water supply is dependent on nearby mountain ranges could face collapse.

It is almost Memorial day and the nearby mountain is still snow covered.

For example in nearby Mountain Home State Forest a cataclysmic fire hit virtually every tree in 1297 at the end of the MWP... similar to an 1849 fire that affected multiple groves and watersheds within Sequoia National Park....

Jason returns from a nearby mountain -LSB-...]

Say you're driving a car, but spot a nearby mountain range that would be a blast to fly over or in - between, you can be doing so within seconds.

PJ's White River Lodge is ideally suited to those wanting outdoor activity and adventure with an array of recreational pursuits to enjoy from fishing and fly - fishing to hiking, cavern exploring and visiting the nearby Mountain Home.

Located in nearby Mountain View, the Ozark Folk Center State Park showcases and preserves the Ozark Mountain way - of - life with exhibits highlighting the arts and crafts, dance and music of the Ozark pioneers.

Base yourself in this quaint historic village and explore nearby mountain ranges and waterways.

Freebies like WiFi and self parking are added perks, and guests looking to stay active can check out the nearby mountain biking and water skiing.

After exploring the impressive ruins of Caracol, enjoy a refreshing dip in the receiving pools of the Big Rock Falls waterfall or Rio on Pools in the nearby Mountain Pine Ridge Park.

Its name Bloubergstrand in Afrikaans literally means «blue mountain beach» derived from Blaauwberg, a nearby mountain.

Optional activities include the mineral pools at Upper Hot Springs, a nature walk on nearby mountain trails, historic museums, Lake Minnewanka or golf at The Fairmont Banff Springs.

Free WiFi is an added perk, and guests looking to stay active can check out the nearby mountain biking.

There are also a number of cultural attractions to observe including traditional villages dedicated to pot making, weaving and other trades, temples and trips into the nearby mountain ranges that provide a classic Indonesian backdrop in the area.

Days are spent laying on the rarely inhabited white - sand beaches, exploring the calm, clear waters and pondering life as you gaze at the nearby mountain range.

Prepare to be enchanted as you dip in its pool of salt water that comes from the bottom of the nearby mountain.

A popular climb up pathways and a wooden staircase takes you to the peak of a nearby mountain where you get the full view of this glittering sea - green body of water.

The Blackall Range in the coast's hinterland is home to many charming villages including Flaxton, Mapleton, Maleny and Montville. You can browse or buy beautiful art and crafts,  bushwalk to hidden waterfalls on the nearby mountain tracks or stay in one of the many romantic hideaways in this beautiful area.

About 25,000 people living nearby the mountain have already left their homes and evacuated since Mount Agung first started to spew smoke Tuesday.

At the time of the summer solstice, rays of the sun shine through a window and align with the boulder and a nearby mountain peak.

With features like fireplaces and jetted tubs, the two master suites feel as plush as the honeymoon suites at any of the nearby mountain resorts.

Bromo: The main reason most people visit Bromo is to witness sunrise over the moon - like Tengger Caldera from a nearby mountain, Gunung Penanjakan.

We bicycle through a beautiful landscape with views of nearby mountain peaks via Arodes and Ineia to Drouseia.

Founded in A.D. 757, then destroyed by invading Arabs and Berbers, Oviedo's more permanent beginnings date to the early 800s when King Alfonso II moved his court from the nearby mountain town, Cangas de Onis, and rebuilt the sacked city.

I continually explored Kyoto's 2000 + temples, shrines and gardens plus all it's old neighborhoods, hidden cuisine restaurants, and nearby mountain temples and onsen.

I would like to say that he dreamed of scores of graceful journeying birds, or the top of the nearby mountain that he had never ventured up, but the past is one thing, and dreams are quite another, so we will have to leave those to him.

So Miller arranged for her eleventh and twelfth graders at James Buchanan High School in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, to visit five classes at nearby Mountain View Elementary School, and offer fun chemistry activities for the school's kindergartners and third and fourth graders.

Even if it's just a beach day over the weekend or hiking a nearby mountain, let's soak up as much of this time as we can!

In tectonic aneurysm, a river cuts down through the earth's crust so fast that it causes the crust to heat up, making a nearby mountain range weaker and facilitating uplift.

Several weeks before Mount Tambora erupted, Raffles became the first European to ascend a nearby mountain known as Gunong Gede; by using thermometers to measure the difference in temperature between the base and the peak, Raffles and his companions determined that they had climbed at least seven thousand feet.

One recovers from the book gradually, and does so best in a quiet upstairs room from which the babble of a nearby mountain stream can just be heard.

After your photo stop, re-board your coach and proceed for a two - course lunch at the nearby Mountain Heritage Hotel.

The unit took small - arms fire from a nearby mountain top during a routine patrol, and was able to suppress the enemy with the assistance of local Afghan National Security Forces.

The Nearby mountains can get as much as 500 inches of snow in the winter and the city hosted the Winter Olympics in 2002.

We're in an odd little pocket of Canada, caught between the ocean and the nearby mountains, so we actually don't get much snow here.

A sensitive physicist took them on a hike in the nearby mountains to experience «the livingness of nature which we seek to preserve.»

I'm not really into fancy restaurants, so my favourite place would be either on our sunny porch at home, or a picnic up in the nearby mountains.

The mercury in the thermometer is creeping up (well... actually, the numbers on the digital weather station in the kitchen are increasing... modern day stuff, you know) and despite the snow that still blankets the nearby mountains, the kids are begging to eat outside.

The areas surrounding Shasta Lake and Whiskeytown National Recreation Area also offer abundant unpaved trails that are popular with single - track bicyclists, and the nearby mountains present endless opportunities for great trail experiences and challenges.

On my journey to Namie, my Geiger counter recorded levels of 80 millisieverts a year in some villages in the nearby mountains.

For instance, the habitat at Hadar and Laetoli was a mixture of forest, closed woodland and grassland around the Rift lakes, with forest on the nearby mountains.

Provo has some of the highest air - pollution levels in the country — especially in the winter, due to an inversion effect caused by nearby mountains.

We've been hiking the nearby mountains and I have been getting runs in every other day.

Spend your days hiking the nearby mountains or on one of the dozens of outdoor brewery patios in the city before driving the quick 30 minutes out to Red Rocks to experience a concert in one of the country's most famous venues.

Thomas smells a rat, and makes off with his pals for a rumored refuge somewhere in nearby mountains, beyond the sunbaked «scorch,» where the usual gauntlet of terrors awaits.

The local peasantry have been panning the Busang River in Borneo for thousands of years, but it is Wells and Acosta that come in with a modern engineering approach and take a plethora of core - samples in the nearby mountains.