Sentences with phrase «ridge above»

In 2000, a 1,200 - acre mountaintop removal mine began on the ridge above Gunnoe's home.

The 1,200 - acre permit, located on a forested ridge above the town of Appalachia, Virginia, would have had intense impacts on residents already affected by decades of mountaintop removal coal mining.

Take Cornwell's Break Road up to the ridge above the lake, where a short walk leads to a splendid lookout offering a view of this barrage lake and the sandblow that is slowly engulfing it.

Perched high on a ridge above the Petanu River, with valley views, the graceful architecture of this thatched hideaway blends contemporary elegance with ethnic charm...

Machu Picchu is a 15th century Inca site, located 2,430 metres above sea level on a mountain ridge above the Sacred Valley.

The Xunantunich Mayan ruins are located atop a limestone ridge above the Mopan River, within sight of the Guatemala border.

Stonaway is perched hillside on the ridge above Ocho Rios and overlooks the turquoise bay of Ocho Rios.

CopperWynd Resort and Club, nestled high on a mountain ridge above Scottsdale and Fountain Hills, offers breathtaking views of the Sonoran Desert and mountain vistas.

Situated on a ridge above the Kalang

On the road to Mt. Bachelor traversing the ridge above the Deschutes River Canyon, the Pine Ridge Inn is that special combination of small county inn and hotel.

It is situated on a mountain ridge above the Sacred Valley which is 80 kilometres (50 mi) northwest of Cusco and through which the Urubamba River flows.

Lubaantun is situated on a tall ridge above a valley cut by the Columbia River, about 1 - 1/2 miles from San Pedro, Columbia, the largest Kekchi Maya village in Belize.

With each of us equipped with a walkie - talkie, we began our hike up the ridge above Muir Beach.

Situated on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba River and surrounded by tropical forest, the Inca city enjoys a truly spectacular setting.

Directly opposite Aoraki Mt Cook, there's a stunning day hike to the main ridge above Mueller Glacier.

Perched high on a ridge above the Petanu River, across the forest canopy,...

Here, the Lizard Range — the storm - battered alpine ridge above town that resembles a lizard's back — catches over 11 metres (37 feet) of snow annually from passing storms.

The Berea is a ridge above the city of Durban, on the northern s...

Watch the sun set over the Alps from Harder Klum, perched on a ridge above the twin lakes of Thun and Brienz.

Beechwood Apartment is a self - catering apartment located in Berea, a ridge above the city of Durban, KwaZulu - Natal.

Beechwood Guesthouse @ 21 Shuter Road is located in Berea, a ridge above the city of Durban, KwaZulu - Natal.

Atelier House sits on a ridge above the West Coast of Barbados, and the views across the treetops to the sea are spectacular — especially from the infinity pool or the panoramic roof terrace.

After nine years and over $ 564 million, the Bürgenstock Resort — a mini-village of four hotels, restaurants, and bars set high on a forested ridge above the lake — is making a comeback.

She wished it was Wednesday, baking day, when the smell of bread filled the hollow, rising all the way up to the church cemetery on the ridge above the camp, and Emma's mother sent her down to the foreign place to help her Aunt Maria with the baking.

But he continues to own a 9,100 - square - foot mansion on a waterfront peninsula in Virginia Beach, Va., he bought in 2001 for $ 1.85 million, as well as an ultra-contemporary villa on a city - view ridge above L.A.'s Laurel Canyon he scooped up in April 2015 for $ 7.14 million.

Make a selection of leather handbags are brought out every modern luxurious texture, while the crisp and smooth lines of the design but also adds a little brisk meaning, reminiscent of riding a horse mounted on a ridge above the fine saddle.

We are way above the tree line as we start skiing down from the ridge above Val Thorens, and we have a giddy sensation of being weightless in a vast white outer space.

Use your fingertips to tuck the dough into the pan, without stretching it, and press the dough up the sides to create a roughly 1 - inch ridge above the rim of the pan.

Where Protestantism still boomed was on the dry, scrubby ridges above town, in hard - scrabble aldeas that clustered around government schools and Church of God chapels.

In mountaintop - removal mining, underground coal seams are exposed by blasting away summits or ridges above them.

And if it's a really big animal, you can clearly see the toad's rough warty skin, big poison glands on its shoulders, bony ridges above its brows, and so forth.

Built on curving ridges above the flowing Petanu River, Kamandalu Resort and Spa is just 10 minute away from the center of Ubud and one - hour scenic drive from Ngurah Rai International Airport.

Last night the voters of Roxbury, Maine succumbed to promises of much lower property taxes and voted 87 - 81 to allow 22 turbines on the ridges above the town.

Not exact matches

No; but with them gone I see the years ahead opening like a pathway deep in snow above the tree line; ridges I can't tread at half the pace of thirty years ago, when I was starting out.

Each time we reach what we think is the top of the mountain, when the clouds of excitement lift, we see a ridge farther above us than we had previously supposed the pinnacle to be.

We climbed the crest of a ridge that placed us dramatically between sky and sea, at a height even above the gulls.

Even in the morning sun, it is four below zero, and riding the Trois Vallees chairlift above Val Thorens to a bare ridge 10,827 feet high is a bitter trip.

Other trails take you to scenic ridges, through forests of twisting koa trees, and up to one of Bogue's favorite spots: the Alakai Swamp, where rare native birds like the scythe - beaked Hawaiian honeycreeper flit around above shallow bogs.

While perhaps more mundane than the megaboulders (found only locally on Eleuthera), the sedimentological structures found within chevron ridge and runup deposits across islands throughout the Bahamas and Bermuda point to frequent and repeated inundation by powerful storm waves, in some locations leaving storm deposits tens of meters above sea level.

The study also showed that volcanic hot spots along the ridge — volcanoes near Iceland as well as the islands of Ascension, Tristan da Cunha, and elsewhere — all sit above warm spots in Earth's mantle.

In other places — Iceland, for example — the ridge tops are exposed above the water's surface.

After chimps started acting as if they saw themselves in the mirror, after about 10 days, he anaesthetized them and applied an odor - free red mark to a location on their faces they could not see, such as above the brow ridge.

Above the 670, the mantle churned slowly like a very shallow pot of boiling water, delivering heat and rock at mid-ocean ridges to make new crust and cool the interior and accepting cold sinking slabs of old plate at deep - sea trenches.

Even though the NWS predicts the high - pressure ridge will begin to break up by the weekend, temperatures will remain above normal, with no relief from the summer monsoon in Nevada or Arizona, the agency said.

Because methane hydrates are so sensitive to temperature, Michael Hutnak of the University of Washington and his colleagues tracked water temperature above the southern stretch of the ridge.

Photojournalist Keith Heyward uses a dolly to film above a formation in the Dry Valleys known as the Labyrinth, a series of deep troughs and ridges that researchers believe was carved out in a massive subglacial flood roughly 12 million years ago.

Big brow ridges and teeth suggest that ancient Homo heidelbergensis (above) may have had more testosterone than modern Homo sapiens (left).

The ridge rises as high as 15,000 feet above the surrounding abyssal plains.

Our ancient ancestors had a prominent ridge of bone above their eyes, but scientists are not sure of its purpose — or why it disappeared.

As the tide rises and falls and water moves through the strait, colder, denser water is pushed up over the ridges into warmer, less dense layers above it.