Sentences with phrase «steep rock sides»

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Scientists thought most of Vesta outside the south polar region might be flat like the Moon, yet some of the craters outside that region formed on very steep slopes and have nearly vertical sides, with landslides often occurring in the regolith, the deep layer of crushed rock on the surface.

Our H1 ragtop easily conquered steep side grades, tight corners, dried arroyos, and sharp rocks with capability to spare.

On the trail, this new confidence made descending steep grades a breeze and kept the Jeep stuck to the side of rocks like a scared gecko, where in the past we'd be lucky if the binders held at all.

These steep - sided rock spires rise from a field of large boulders at a depth of 130 feet to break the surface.

Next day we reach Solcava after an easy climb through a valley, riding along the Savinja with sometimes steep rock walls on the other side of the road.

is the reply from the other side, and I start tensioning the high - line, a cable and pulley system that carries drain rock, gravel, and dirt across a steep ravine, saving the trail crews time and energy.

Drive an hour to Mount Macedon to visit exquisite private gardens at Forest Glade and Tieve Tara, or climb nearby Hanging Rock, a 105 metre (344 foot) tall, steep - sided ancient volcano, which has eroded to create bizarre rock formatiRock, a 105 metre (344 foot) tall, steep - sided ancient volcano, which has eroded to create bizarre rock formatirock formations.

The steep (hands and feet needed) climb winds up the side of the rock faces and through a tunnel.

Golden, British Columbia — based Glacier Raft Company has exclusive access to raft the Kicking Horse River's legendary lower canyon, a 2.5 - mile stretch of Class IV rapids with massively steep rock walls on either side.

In the summer of 1970, Philip Leider — then the editor of Artforum, the journal of record for American art of the moment — got into a car with two friends, the artists Joan Jonas and Richard Serra, and drove off to see a newly finished artwork: Michael Heizer's Double Negative, a pair of cuts in the rock of a Nevada mesa, directly facing each other on opposite sides of a steep valley.