Sentences with phrase «steep slope then»

A door flew suddenly open and two portly city executive types marched smartly out backwards, skilfully negotiated a short but steep slope then performed an incredibly agile backward leap into a motor boat waiting at the water's edge.

This area is the first real rock and steep sloping then transformed into the beautiful and amazing with charming architecture.

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Here one can start the day with a «coretto» for courage (a heady mixture of coffee and grappa), then try such slopes as the Forcella del Sasso Lungo — where you can see the world spread out in wide screen — or the Val de Mesdi, so steep at the top (a 4,000 - foot drop in two miles) that you jump right out of your socks to make a turn.

We all stopped for a while and then had to climb up the same steep slope.

Keep following the path past the properties and then down a steep slope until you reach the beach — it's big and beautiful, lined with lava rocks and patches of palm trees that provide shade.

The majority of sites along the island's western coast and around the nearby island of Klein Bonaire feature similar profiles: Beaches or rocky shorelines are fronted by a coastal ledge that slopes gradually from the waterline to a depth of around 25 feet, then turns downward at a steeper angle to reach depths of around 100 feet.

The terrain here slopes gently to the outer wall of corals to about 70 feet / 21mt then drops steep to a few thousand feet.

Continuing round to the right, the slope develops into a reef with very impressive topography, becoming a vertical wall, from 15m to below 60m, which then reverts to a steep slope.

From this steep talus slope beneath the sheer face of Cerro Yanaorco, immense red granite building stones were carved onsite and then skidded down to the valley floor, across the river, and then up to the sun temple site on the far side of the valley.

It could be that this is evident in the curve as well both before and after the 1991 volcano in that the curve is steeper than B before 1991 and then after the significant flat portion then crosses B at a similar slope.