Far in the west the lofty crest of the Rockies flickered snow white between swirling openings in the cloud cover. |
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The Eastern mole can be found from the Atlantic to the foothills of the Rockies and from Southern Canada to the panhandle of Florida. |
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Along the eastern slopes of the Rockies, the Chinook wind provides a welcome respite from the long winter chill. |
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Being in the Rockies meant she could indulge her love of skiing, mountain biking and rugged living. |
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The group was driving in the Colorado Rockies when they hit black ice on the road. |
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Jays in the West include the Steller's jay, which is common in coastal forests and mountains into the Rockies. |
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Perched in the middle of the Rockies, housing options include 1,300 condominium units, two hotels and a bed and breakfast. |
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Behind him he saw the Rockies enfold the city, before him its waters ran out into the oceans of the world. |
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Blue water sailing is as different from coastal sailing as a Himalayan expedition is from backpacking in the Rockies. |
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But can they be the decisive factor when comparing summer tenting in the rocks of the Rockies to the rocks of Ontario's Canadian Shield? |
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The chimney swift is one of four regularly occurring species of swifts found in North America, the most common one found east of the Rockies. |
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The bus leaves bang on time, and we roll along the freeways as the sun rises and adds a flush to the Rockies on our right. |
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To achieve a winning season, the Rockies are banking on a return to their Blake Street Bomber days. |
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West, across the rugged mountains and canyons of the southern Rockies, hung threatening cloud formations. |
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When the Rockies traded outfielder Juan Pierre, they created a void atop the batting order. |
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Aside from all of the great outdoor activities, the Rockies have a number of other attractions as well. |
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I will try to blog now and then from the Big Square State in the Rockies, but mostly we'll be goofing off. |
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A ride up the gondola here will enable visitors to get a bird's eye view of the majestic Canadian Rockies mountain range. |
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Geologically young, the Rockies exhibit faulting, glaciation, and volcanism, resulting in rugged, spectacularly scenic terrain. |
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Denver is a newly gentrified metropolitan area surrounded by the rugged, snow-capped Colorado Rockies. |
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Local knowledge of the mountain range and weather patterns is essential for heli-skiing, especially on the steep faces of the northern Rockies. |
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Reared on the steeps, many skiers in our area of the Rockies, including myself, stuck with AT gear. |
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Still having hauled back a four-point deficit to go in at the break on level terms the Rockies must have been reasonably pleased with themselves. |
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But take to the practice field of the Calgary Rockies women's contact football team and thoughts of genteel femininity disappear in an instant. |
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For anyone east of the Rockies, this is how the fun little novelty on the left coast looks. |
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The G8 summit takes place this month in the Canadian Rockies, specially chosen to avoid anti-capitalist protesters. |
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The trips listed here are typical of dinner sleigh rides you can find throughout the Rockies. |
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The Rockies are home to several campgrounds, ghost towns, gold prospecting sites, and national parks. |
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The Mile High city hosts one of the most extravagant holiday light shows in the Rockies. |
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I went mountain climbing in the Rockies with several friends once. |
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But Chris finds a quieter kind of satisfaction in the huts that dot the Rockies around aspen. |
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Kelly, who graduated from Pitt in 1933, should easily waltz past Colorado Rockies third baseman Ty Wigginton's UNC Asheville. |
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When pitcher Mike Hampton signed with the Colorado Rockies, many people wondered aloud whether he would fall victim to the rarefied air of the Mile High city. |
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Not only were the Rockies losing every day, they were getting whipped. |
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The city sits on high, flat plains 12 miles east of the Rockies. |
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Then there was that amazing trip across the Rockies in a Winnebago. |
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Events include snowshoeing, cross-country skiing and alpine downhill racing at the Sunshine Village, one of the most exclusive areas of Banff in the Canadian Rockies. |
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The comet was struck on July forth for the Eastern and Central time zones, but it hit on the third for us in the Rockies and the Western time zone. |
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In the Midwest, cucumber beetles will arrive in August, posing the same problems for heartland rosarians as Japanese beetles do for most rosarians east of the Rockies. |
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Most North Americans are familiar with either the ruby-throated hummingbird, east of the Rocky Mountains, or the rufous hummingbird, west of the Rockies. |
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The organisation runs courses in diving, sailing, surfing, skiing and snowboarding at such mouth-watering locations as the Seychelles, the Caribbean, and the Canadian Rockies. |
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Another scientist reported grizzlies flipping over rocks to lick up army cutworm moths, a fat-bodied insect that hides by day in the high-altitude talus slopes in the Rockies. |
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In the Rockies, the number climbs to 26 percent, and in the southwest, fully a third are on board. |
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Steamboat Springs sits north of the many ski areas along the I-70 corridor, on the western face of the Rockies. |
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This usually happens across the front range of the Colorado Rockies, when you can get upsloping winds, some moisture tapped from the Gulf of Mexico. |
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After heading west at the age of 15, he ranched with relatives in Colorado, then knocked around the U.S. and Canadian Rockies, working as a drover and broncobuster. |
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A trip to the Rockies might have been more our speed, but we chose Disney World because we wanted it to be easy. |
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The convective plumes rising out of the Rockies will swallow anything we want to fly against them. |
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The ultimate thrill is heli-skiing in remote ranges such as Canada's Rockies, but for those with less stamina there are cheaper ways to make fresh tracks. |
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A 2000 study published in Neurology found that when warm westerly winds, called the chinook winds, came off the Canadian Rockies, migraines increased in patients. |
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In the nineteenth century, hunters eradicated the passenger pigeon, drove the American bison to the brink of extinction, and eliminated elk from much of the central Rockies. |
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The Sliabh Luachra side had something of an Indian sign over their Tralee rivals and had recorded back to back successes over the Rockies in 2001 and last year. |
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You look around at the highest peaks of the Rockies, and you're at the water epicenter of North America, where the glaciers and rivers flow to all points of the compass. |
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As such, they tend to look for high-quality getaways, such as helicopter tours of the Canadian Rockies, national park vacations and chartered small ship cruises to Costa Rica. |
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We'll live in a tipi camp, learn about the plains environment, practice some traditional arts, attend a powwow, and hike in the splendour of the northern Rockies. |
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This is known as thrust faulting and was instrumental in the formation of the Rockies. |
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Indeed, Richard Reading of the Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative in Jackson, Wyo. |
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The dispute was resolved in the Oregon Treaty of 1846, which established the 49th parallel as the boundary through the Rockies. |
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The supervolcano underlying Yellowstone National Park in the Rockies is the continent's largest volcanic feature. |
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He misplayed a slow bouncer with the bases loaded in the fifth inning, a play that gave the Rockies their second run. |
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The northern Ogallala, found near the surface in Nebraska, is replenished by surface runoff from rivers originating in the Rockies. |
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He joins high school shortstop Max George, a sixth-round selection by the Rockies, as OSU signees who chose to sign pro contracts. |
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Grylls, 37, was not in the Rockies fending for his life, but less than an hour from Los Angeles, filming a commercial for Degree deodourant. |
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It did not count against the Rockies on their linescore, but it did on the scoreboard. |
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The Colorado River drains much of the Southern Rockies and parts of the Great Basin and Range Province. |
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The Museum of the Rockies in Montana, USA now owns Egg Mountain, noted for the discovery of Maiasaur fossils. |
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In North America, leaf peepers may enjoy rail tours of the Canadian Rockies before winter hits. |
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The southern end of the Rockies plunges gradually along its sharp frontal downflex and passes into the Anton Chico monocline. |
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He built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Rockies. |
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The programme has been selected from more than 370 films which were entered into the prestigious Banff Mountain Film Festival, held in the Canadian Rockies last November. |
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Walter Bassett was the greatest captain of industry west of the Rockies, and was one of the small group that controlled the nation in everything but name. |
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From there they had the choice of crossing the Rockies at the head of the Athabasca River at Yellowhead Pass, or at the headwaters of the Bow at White Man's Pass. |
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He flies a glider over the Rockies but loses his nerve on a wreck dive, gets the collywobbles climbing Mount Fable and gets jeered by locals for his cowboy skills. |
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For example, the Burgess Shale is a thick exposure of dark, occasionally fossiliferous, shale exposed high in the Canadian Rockies near Burgess Pass. |
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In the untamed Rockies, as she tumbled from rearing horses and shivered in unchinked cabins, wolves howling outside, her complaints miraculously vanished. |
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The North American continental divide runs along the Rockies. |
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For more than six months, Derrick Strauss dedicated his recreational time to training for the Triple Bypass cycle ride through the Colorado Rockies. |
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In the northern Rockies, a significant increase in pines and firs suggests warmer conditions than before and a shift to subalpine parkland in places. |
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