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Keep to the lane as it bends left then right and it drops more steeply downhill.
A winding road slopes downhill through a thicket of trees before looping once around a tiny manmade lake.
Leave the Pennine Way at the road and turn right, following the road downhill for about half a mile until a gated track is reached on the right.
On the plus side, once you were at the top you usually got a nice downhill bit.
The life she knew would take her nowhere except downhill, where, she expected, a bed of nails awaited her.
The elephants, had, of course, knocked these down in their passage, so going downhill was one long slide and going up beggars description.
He putted superbly, draining a 30-footer on the 14th and a tricky downhill five footer on the 16th.
The trail crosses onto the north side and continues downhill and east along the rocky bench above the creek.
To catch rainwater, build berms on the downhill side of the plants using soil from the planting holes.
The narrow trail meandered slightly downhill, eventually opening to a small deserted beach.
Winter adds snowboarding, ice-skating, and cross-country and downhill skiing on the resort's groomed trails and ski slopes.
This gorgeous picture postcard scenery provides a backdrop for over 200 km of downhill and cross-country skiing trails.
The downhill runs all intersect cross-country trails at right angles, some numerous times.
We practise sliding downhill with skis at 90 degrees to the fall line, edges biting deep.
If the hill isn't fast enough for you, you can even use a tuck position like a downhill ski racer!
A downhill tuck lets you slice through the wind, maintaining speed while you recover from the climb.
It tests every shot, from uphill and downhill to sidehill, and offers both hilltop panoramas and dense glades.
Before your round, practice putting to nothing, and feel the pace of your putts by hitting uphill, downhill and sidehill.
The buses also obscure the sight line for downhill traffic to the single lane restriction on Station Road.
I spend Sunday morning at the clubhouse as well, watching more riders flinging themselves downhill, dwelling morbidly upon my looming ordeal.
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However she has also distinguished herself in action-packed sports as diverse as downhill mountain biking, motocross, supercross and skydiving.
When skiing downhill the bindings are locked, and skins and crampons removed.
He has never been much of a fan of downhill skiing, an experience he likens to attending a football match.
Wanderers will play tonight's game in the shadow of one of the most famous slopes in downhill skiing.
Here you'll find excellent cross-country and downhill skiing facilities on wonderfully uncrowded pistes.
That way, novice skiers can avoid one steep downhill along the edge of Inferno Cone.
The wedge or snowplow is often one of the first downhill maneuvers a skier learns, but it is not easy to do.
Intermediate snowboarders competed in the intermediate events immediately following the downhill skiers.
Ice hockey, downhill skiing, ski jumping and even the speed skating make for compulsive viewing.
For example, one pro skater might challenge you to break his record in a downhill slalom race that is akin to bobsledding.
Could Killy himself pull off a hat trick of Olympic victories at Grenoble in downhill, giant slalom, and slalom?
The man tries to explain his state of mind by comparing it to going downhill on a snow sled, but Jonas does not know what sled and snow are.
It offers skis for downhill and cross country enthusiasts, as well as sleds, tubes and snow shoes.
On downhill runs we would slice past the bellowing Buran, sometimes startling a snowy arctic hare as we rounded a bend.
They moved like cats downhill, slinking in the shadows like natural-born predators, breathing in the dust and death.
Skiers will only be allowed access to the downhill skiing slopes, while non-skiing visitors will be confined to the Ptarmigan centre.
This leads downhill and just before the bottom corner of the field is reached cross the stile on your left and enter the woodland.
Vail Cascade boasts 4,000 acres of incredible downhill skiing and snowboarding right outside your door.
Get outside for snowshoeing, dog sledding, ice-skating, downhill and cross-country skiing, hiking, walking, running and snow tubing.
Despite his life going downhill, he was still described by people who knew him as a gentle, placid, easy-going, amiable man.
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And we certainly have witnessed many people who have started to drink after years of sobriety and go downhill very, very quickly.
The collective wisdom of cyclists is that the wind is always against you and that uphill slopes inexplicably outnumber downhill ones.
All the reinforced fencing, railroad ties, and flying buttresses can keep the uphill from sliding downhill for only so long.
Put them together, though, and you've got a downhill firecracker with brawn and brains.
In these slides, a broad area of snowpack breaks away and begins moving downhill as a cohesive mass riding over an ice sheet or bare ground.
We are adapting ski schools for the summer, with downhill biking and Nordic walking instead.
It's that feeling you get when you climb out of a cable car at the top of a mountain, click into your bindings and point yourself downhill.
Eyewitnesses said the 17 horses stampeded over a tiny bridge on the steep downhill path then tried to get around a sharp left turn.
The only place this team is picking up speed is in its downhill slide in the points standings.
Being a downhill ski nut and former instructor probably helps, but I think anyone can learn the basics of downhill skating and live to enjoy it.
This argues for the existence of a powerful set of accelerating forces in addition to the downhill obesogenic slope.
Formations on sloping ground tended to stretch into oblong shapes with the longest dimension pointing downhill.
The day is finished off with a bit of fun, doing short downhill routes and skills sections with jumps and so on in the fun park.
On the way downhill, we pass a house with only the roof sticking up above the lava.
Today we went and did our back carry, meaning we went back downhill and picked up the remainder of our cache at 13, 500 feet.
Their first scrum was screwed away from the open side, and it all went downhill.
He's still coarse and unsympathetic but when he starts taking the moral high road, the film goes downhill.
The return trip is all downhill on a sloping hillside of coastal scrub and chaparral.
It is 450 yard par four which doglegs left and downhill to an enormous green, out of bonds on the left and wild, hillocky duneland to the right.
The songs emerge with great intros but quickly hit a standstill and that's where it all goes downhill.
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In 1999, she won the downhill and Super-G at the World Cup in St Anton, Austria.
Aspen Skiing Company is going so far as to move its superpipe from high on Buttermilk Mountain to a spot downhill for easier viewing.
Diablo Free Ride Park in Vernon, New Jersey offered up another helping of large cash prizes and swag to downhill racers.
Thanks to a dry course, the ball landed on the downhill side of a grass hump and rolled 30 yards straight onto the green and into the cup.
Tribes practising sedentary agriculture or non-nomadic pastoralism are already on the downhill run towards modern, industrial society.
As I tried to make my escape downhill, a cloud of smoke from another fire enveloped me.
I thought it might be easier to go fast but that's when I caught my downhill edge and face-planted.
At the top of the next incline, the road would change to a downhill slope and start back into the city.
Not much used to bicycles, she inexpertly began coasting downhill, keeping her speed down should she go for a toss.
The most likely culprits are overtraining after periods of inactivity, inflexibility, and running downhill or on concrete or sand.
To help pass the time, I do some serious downhill training on in-line skates.
Here you'll find another 40 km of trails, which interconnect with the downhill ski area.
It's pretty much downhill from there, with everyone speaking in moral platitudes and Hanks looking troubled.
If I'm lucky, I'll win a downhill ski bag to store our family's five sets of skis and poles.
I scored a goal that made me famous and then it all went downhill from there.
The path plunged downhill at a near-sheer angle, with few hand or footholds, but a free-swinging knotted rope to hang on to.
Some horses never completely catch up and stay built downhill, or what we call on their forehand, their whole lives.
Ultimately, the front end of a downhill rig would have to be raised too, something which goes against the grain of the preference of most riders.
The path is indistinct at first but beyond a gatepost it becomes a track running downhill to another stone post.
He said it had once been a decent community, a nice place to live, but it had gone downhill in the last five years.
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To stop downhill progress, prolong a turn until you are skating back uphill.
The pipe collects water from the soil, discharging the flow at an opening located downhill from the house.
But after their two children were born, the marriage went downhill, eventually ending in divorce.
In some places they're dispensing with the sledges altogether these days and are sliding downhill sitting on plastic bags.
Stockholm to Copenhagen, with lunch at Vadstena Castle, was the downhill slope of the rally.
Starting downhill we encounter a bear hole, dug in pursuit of a ground squirrel.
Shaped like a big horseshoe, this place starts with a bowled off mini ramp of sorts and runs downhill.
Anyone with half an inkling knows that water traditionally runs downhill, after all Newton and his love of apples determined that fact.
The trail eventually takes a few short and steep upturns, but for the most part just flows downhill like water.
Follow the cobbles downhill and through a gate to reach the canal's lower level on the left.
There is no question that the bigger wheels are faster downhill and considerably more stable.
After a few yards downhill we could see the roofs of Thoralby and a few minutes later were strolling its old street to The George Inn.
The original Glencolumbkille House was located on a lower site 100 yards downhill.
Obviously the logical answer is that it always flows downhill, and it is an illusion that the road's length slants upwards.
Also, when I am going downhill the car will pick up revs, but on uphill gradients loses almost all power.
If hitting the ball uphill, you had to calculate how far back downhill it would roll, and at what angle.
Right at tracks T-junction, 200 yards downhill, left between farm buildings.
Overall have you ever had one of those days when things are neutral and then all of a sudden inside you everything goes downhill?
Sadly, Adam is let off the leash in the second half and everything goes downhill, but not before the movie has delivered big laughs.
Once the pride of India and a great showpiece to the world, Indian Railways has steadily gone downhill.
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Yorkshire began brightly against Durham at Scarborough yesterday but went downhill as the weather deteriorated.
This just, though, it plays like sitcom, sort of starts out well, the movies start out well and kind of goes downhill from there.
Unfortunately, a few pages later the book started to go downhill and never fully recovered.
From here, I went steadily downhill and, when I was 19, I was sent to prison for theft, assault and numerous robberies.
I'm just voicing my opinion that I think things have gone steadily downhill since November.
Its condition steadily went downhill and it appeared that the scrapman would be a visitor.
From this crucial presentation of misinformation, the text goes steadily downhill.
Others have already pointed out that the film goes downhill the closer you get to the ending.
A boy on a skateboard, on his way home from a friend's place, tripped on a slight downhill slope on a quiet suburban street.
Finally, we reached the downhill portion of the hike, towards Hanakapiai Beach.
We topped the pass as the first drops of rain fell, and then beat the storm in a reckless 20 kilometres downhill dash.
I prefer starting on a downhill slope because the car moves on its own and any jerkiness of the clutch is irrelevant.
With a few hours of ski lessons, many beginners catch on well enough to find themselves hooked for life on a downhill descent.
A four-cylinder 77 BHP engine did most of the work, with a good downhill slope doing the rest.
The route took the participants around a course which was a mixture of uphill and downhill slopes, cross country terrain and hard surfaces.
With more than 25 ski areas dotting the peaks around Lake Tahoe, the region is rightly touted as a Mecca for downhill skiing and snowboarding.
And over the holidays, I went downhill skiing for the very first time in my life.
Injuries are most common in contact sports, such as football, or sports that involve falls, such as downhill skiing or soccer.
For some sports like downhill skiing and gymnastics, they're eight times more susceptible.
We hadn't given the most dignified demonstration of downhill ski technique.
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According to my mother, downhill skiing was for rich people who didn't mind breaking their legs.
Most beginning snowboarders find the learning curve faster than for downhill skiing, but don't plan on learning everything in one day.
Most injuries occurred while the patients were engaged in downhill skiing or snowboarding.
If we liked congested slopes and long lines and battling for parking spaces, we would've become downhill skiers.
While many Bozeman locals love downhill skiing, most college students prefer snowboarding.
And the next pages show the same downhill slide even under conditions of the most optimistic scenarios.
It's downhill from there, a situation not helped by the BBC constantly reviving it because they feel the need to get a Christmas blockbuster.
When the history of a once-great company is written, they'll be able to point to this defining moment as the start of the downhill slide.
I was hoping it would be a downhill slope from here, and I guess in a way, it is.
The 6.5 mile trail offers a strenuous climb up Taylor Hill followed by a twisting downhill.
Unfortunately on the largest downhill the bike started to wobble and I lost control.
The bus left the road at at the bottom of a steep downhill, and careered 70 metres down an embankment.
The three Bulgarian skiers have confirmed their places in the slalom, giant and super giant slalom and he will even ski in the downhill.
Despite losing a few seconds on the last part of the downhill, Ivan held onto his lead in the final kilometres to complete a great ride!
The beauty of the older cable bindings was their usefulness for both touring and downhill.
Unfortunately it was pretty much downhill all the way to the end of the screening.
But it's actually very true, we get to age 12 or so, scientists think, and from then on it's downhill all the way.
Going downhill the Ford took a little more pressure on the brake pedal to downshift than did the Chevy with the Allison Automatic transmission.
An enormous chunk of coal was balanced on the edge of the moving tender and released downhill as it passed.
From the fast-paced danger of downhill skiing to more graceful ice skating, the games are already an action-packed pageant.
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But on a road, even a long one, even a long downhill one, 80 is your realistic top whack.
Negotiating a bike downhill, through a peloton, with a front flat at over 65 kph is not good.
The edge of the pool lies slightly below the waterline, so water spills over the rim and recirculates from a downhill basin.
Favorite winter sports include cross-country and downhill skiing, and long-distance skating.
Unlike our boys in Japan, Steve is the red-hot favourite to win both the first round downhill race in Fort William and the World Cup itself.
The paved road beneath our feet is leveling out from the downhill, the effort required to maintain forward motion is increasing.
In the last decade, the economy has gone downhill, the value of the kwacha has declined, and the rate of inflation is high.
In the future, alpinists will treat Mount McKinley like a quadruple-black-diamond downhill run.
Once you've gone down that road it is mostly downhill and getting steeper by day.
Trust the downhill ski, even though it slips. Angulate. Chest away from the mountain, not into it.
The track ends but continue downhill along the left hand side of a narrow field.
I dropped a couple of tenths of a second in the first sector, but where I really lost time was Turn eight, the downhill left-hander.
If a player gets too aggressive on a downhill putt on one of those greens, his next shot could be a chip or a pitch from the fairway.
Sprinkled with gruelling technical climbs, crazy downhill flings, and easy-rolling side hills, this trail is excellent for all levels of riders.
A downhill runway may cause you to fly a too-high approach, and an overshoot would be likely.
This all just happens, like a boulder rolling downhill, but without any sense of danger.
Last Sunday I tried to express my uneasy feeling that rollicking values would soon be roller-coastering downhill.
At first glance Jackson Hole might not seem the most likely place to introduce your precious little ones to downhill.
A very faint path runs downhill beside the fence, below a single bar fence and onwards to the end of the plantation.
His career began a downhill descent by showing up late for work, and when he did show, he arrived with a bad attitude.
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It was fast, mostly downhill, and mother nature was good enough to hold the rain off and afford us a light tailwind.
To put it simply, water tends to flow downhill, but it can be pumped uphill by a motor and the right machinery.
We finish at a downhill ski area and a T-bar lift to a fine hotel at the top of a run.
You will have to climb the hill, of course, but since the backside is gradual, you won't have to worry about downhill spills.
The trail continues downhill for a brief stretch among chestnut trees, manna ashes and maple trees before reaching plain ground again.
But if wearing baggies to a group road ride is like wearing spandex to a downhill race, then I'll pass.
The growing areas are divided into terraces to prevent the crops from sliding downhill.
Wharfedale, it seemed, had only to pressure the territory, play the game behind their opponents on the turn and kick downhill for the corners.
This event features four racers at a time taking a downhill course full of jumps, turns and banked corners in a race to the finish.
Things started to go downhill the following year when he walked out of West Indies' tour of England after a dressing room row but was persuaded to return days later.
Pat Robertson finished second in the 1988 Iowa caucus, and it was all downhill from there.
The Jervis Bay area provided plenty of scope for rough paddling, crazy downhill mountain biking, challenging navigation and even an abseil with bikes!
It was about a half a mile downhill, with an absolutely beautiful view of the countryside, although it was always a bit harder to get back up again after a few pints.
Ignore the track leading off to the right but continue downhill to cross a gate and stile and follow the track leading to a waymarker on an old gate post.
In the experiments stick insects walk on an inclined substrate such that the legs of one side of the body point uphill and the legs of the other side point downhill.
Even though it's gone very downhill, it's glory days were blinding.
When the dorsolateral PFC goes tilt, things go downhill fast, cognitively speaking.
She needs time in downhill mode, and lifts are the way to get it.
And when he invites a wheelchair-bound guest to commiserate with him about his bubble-wrapped foot, things go downhill from there.
Firstly, it's the morning that I happen to severely sprain my ankle, landing badly on a tussock of grass as I trot downhill from my tent to the river below.
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I slowly went downhill and back on to the heavy stuff like heroin.
So it's slow and ugly and now things really go downhill because thanks to the prop shaft and all the other rear-wheel-drive gubbins, there is no space in the back.
Old-timers may find support for their constant laments that the game is steadily going downhill by citing the glittering example of 19th Century owner Chris Von der Ahe.
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.
At 115 lb, downhill momentum isn't exactly my strong suit either.
When downhill racer Julia Mancuso did it, she wore the American flag like a cape.
In a 2005 Bormio, Italy downhill he lost a ski off a jump at over 60mph, stayed up, and skied the rest of the course.
The resort also has a chairlift to carry you to your downhill adventure.
From here it was basically downhill, though with occasional reprieves.
At the far end of the parking area, turn left through a kissing gate and follow the path which drops steeply downhill and leads to a bridge over the River Croal.
A downhill frozen start continued to a long uphill drag through a muddy wooded section before turning into the wind, past the start for a second lap.
Perhaps a little too far, as it happens, as the downhill slope was fairly shallow and didn't even come close to hinting at the ferocity of the climb back up to the top.
All levels of downhill skiers and snowboarders will be catered for.
One of my major dislikes is bridges, especially on fast downhill descents.
There are a fair amount of details, such as snow in the bobsled run and mini-trees on the downhill slopes, which help create a sense of realism throughout the game.
It was hard going up the hills when the temperature climbed in the late morning, but the downhill sections were all rideable, but demanded great care and concentration.
Unlike downhill, when competitors get to compete in a series of practice runs, super-G only allows each skier a 90-minute inspection of the course.
There, clear, was Arthur's seat, the Georgian grid of the new town, the apron of streets spreading downhill, northwards, to Leith and to the firth.
He lost control on a gentle downhill slope approaching a bend.
Police said the landslide had swept seven houses some 30 meters downhill in the hilly residential area of Candi after a retaining wall broke early on Saturday.
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Things then went steadily downhill for the troubled Scot as he struggled to a demoralising 75 which leaves him in grave jeopardy of missing the cut.
The downhill slide of the state do not seem to be either visible or of concern or worry to the key political parties, ever at each other's jugular vein.
The bomb briefly tied the score at 7, but it was all downhill from there.
Perhaps the reason I prefer downhill skiing, luge, cross-country, speed skating, and other such sports in the Winter Olympics is that judging vagaries don't affect them.
Stile to path at 1 o'clock which then zigzags downhill via posts.
She's a whitewater thrill-chaser, downhill skier, mountain biker and surrealist artist who teaches aerobics, practices tae-bo, does yoga and plays piano.
There are four disciplines on a scale from technical to speed, with slalom the most technical and the downhill the fastest.
It was those instincts which undoubtedly contributed to her result in the downhill here in Turin, a race which took place in flat light on a tricky rolling course.
It can be used for telemark, backcountry touring, and downhill, and is not wedded to tracks because it is shorter, wider, and more stable than traditional cross-country skis.
He begins the speech with a lie and proceeds downhill from there.
We then picked up the road again and followed it through to our next downhill, a rocky, fast, narrow trail which deposits the rider at great speed at the foot of Biggin Hill.
He refused to receive counselling and went steadily downhill.
He has traded in Stonegate for five years but a decline in business began to become noticeable one-and-a-half years ago and trade has gone steadily downhill ever since.
The half of the film that is a story that you could watch never knowing or caring that there were more parts to follow, starts off at good and goes downhill.
At one time, he said, the yard employed a large number of brakemen, who rode along on each of the freight cars to control the speed as the cars rolled downhill.
Failing to turn at the bottom of a 300-metre downhill straight, the Nova hit a rock-faced banking at about 55 mph, bringing the car to a dead stop.
As with downhill skiing, the kick turn is essential for climbing.
The ice-encrusted cairn eventually appeared through the gloom and I was glad to retrace my steps downhill to a little niche where I could find some semblance of shelter.
Now, you know when an avalanche goes downhill it gains momentum.
We've seen many travel websites come and go, some improving, others going downhill, and we've had ample time to sort the winners from the time-wasters.
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He said the battery kicks in automatically when sensors in the pedals pick up that the rider needs help and cuts out when it is not needed such as on downhill slopes.
Going downhill, toes can get bruised if they press against the toe box.
The route drops to a dead-end road called Smearbottom Lane further uphill, but downhill it becomes Hawthorns Lane and we took its very steep and metalled surface.
She also enjoys downhill skiing and backpacking with friends and family.
The directional arrow pointed to a downhill slope, surrounded in bushland.
After our morning indoor session, we hit the trails and skied to Duke's Ski Trail, an old downhill slope with a now defunct rope tow powered by a car.
Although the snow on downhill and cross-country courses can look smooth on television, under the microscope snow crystals are jagged and have varying water contents.
This month begins my annual downhill slide into neurotic freneticism.
The shorter races also make for real spectacles, especially on the five-furlong track, which has a downhill slope and sees some of the fastest sprints in the world.
A funicular railway scales the mountain to the jumping-off point for the sledge run, which winds five kilometres downhill back to the railway terminus.
Seventy-four and a half per cent of this province's college faculty have voted to strike in protest of the downhill slide of the quality of college education.
Her second round of 55 was achieved despite a treble bogey at the downhill 16th courtesy of twos at the second, fifth, twelfth, thirteenth and seventeenth.
I want to feel that rolling, tumbling momentum, like a barrel sent blind downhill.
As a mother gentoo penguin flees downhill from her frantically pestering offspring, the whole train trips over itself, squawking and skidding uncontrollably.
All he did was touch the clutch while going downhill, instead of keeping his feet well clear of the pedals and allowing the vehicle to trundle down in low-ratio first gear.
Her students, as cruel as they are beautiful and privileged, treat her as a curiosity while they try to decide if she's cool or on the downhill slide into spinster misery.
Things go downhill from there, as we visit a Dutch pothead who heads a cannabis cult.
Americans may be entranced by this endearing family of highborn English snoots, but the show is going downhill.
I drove downhill... toward the Mariner's Rest Motel... A keyboy... told me that Alex Kincaid had registered and gone out again.
Severe gradients made the headway in the uphill direction much worse than the headway in the downhill direction.
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In later legends, Alban's head rolled downhill after his execution, and a well sprang up where it stopped.
Pinned by a flank attack while making a downhill charge, Strathbogie's army broke and Strathbogie refused to surrender and was killed.
Rivers flowing downhill, from river source to river mouth, do not necessarily take the shortest path.
They usually ran downhill so that they included both wet and dry land, helping to offset some of the problems of extreme weather conditions.
Glaciers move, or flow, downhill due to gravity and the internal deformation of ice.
Various walkways have also been installed, as well as a series of downhill mountain biking trials by Antur Stiniog.
Mass wasting is the term used for the slower and smaller action of material moving downhill.
Mountain biking began in the 1970s, originally as a downhill sport, practised on customized cruiser bicycles around Mount Tamalpais.
Slopestyle, a form of downhill, is when riders do tricks such as tailwhips, 360s, backflips and front flips.
Modern hydroelectric dams can be viewed as the descendants of the water wheel, as they too take advantage of the movement of water downhill.
At Beijing it reaches 27 m, fed by streams flowing downhill from the mountains to the west.
This barrier adds stability to the reclaimed slope by preventing spoil from slumping or sliding downhill.
Chalets often face south or downhill, and are built of solid wood, with a steeply gabled roof to allow accumulated snow to slide off easily.
After this, the road the passes near to Moor Row and through the centre of Bigrigg, before heading downhill to Egremont.
The concave shape of a glacial cirque is open on the downhill side, while the cupped section is generally steep.
A pyroclastic flow can interact with a body of water to form a large amount of mud, which can then continue to flow downhill as a lahar.
The doorways are paved with naturally flat stones, and all face both downhill and away from the prevailing wind.
Find the crest of the rise with your tee shot and the downhill run to the green is as tempting as a plateful of creamcakes.
Utah Winter Games also offers beginner clinics in downhill skiing and cross country skiing.
Better practice your downhill and cross-country skiing before you try to telemark.
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But the Winter Olympic-bound Welshman argues his fledgling bobsledding career isn't going downhill but, in fact, it's on the up.
Courtney Scribner's snowboard splits in two pieces for uphill climbs, then reattaches for downhill rides.
Swiss skier Fabienne Suter won the first downhill race, narrowly outracing Andrea Fischbacher, who did one better a day later.
Since the sprinter maintains speed while going downhill, the need to overstride diminishes.
They have fingerlike branches at the downhill end and are easily diverted round small obstacles.
It is a true one-off, with sidehill, uphill and downhill lies and pin positions where the wind can blow the ball off slopy greens.
Electronic Hill Descent Control uses the vehicle's brakes and engine torque to crawl in bottom gear on steep downhill slopes.
Bedlington Terriers were in the top six at the end of September but since then it has mainly been downhill.
Their next obstacle was a ride for one of them downhill in an inflatable ball called a Zorb.
In 1889 a severe passenger train wreck occurred near Dijon, when a 2-4-2 engine derailed while going full speed downhill.
Once in a while just coming upon a tilted snowbank in the midst of a feeding area is enough to send a band boogieing away downhill.
The race events are downhill, slalom, giant slalom, Super G, and combineds, with each giving points in the same way.
Because we got to the summit of the mountain, we could only go downhill from there.
After Don made those tasteless remarks, our relationship with him went downhill.
It's all downhill from here, fnar, fnar, no more horizontal hokey-cokey for you, eh grandad?
I usually run fast enough, but my speed goes downhill when I don't sleep enough.
As the frozen water that was above the sea turns liquid and flows downhill, it raises the world's sea level.
Three over after six holes, he still snaffled the pounds 400 second prize and his 142-yard pitch to 18 inches for birdie at the Colt's downhill 13th was a gem.
For the Russian and her guide Pavel Zabotin, it was third time lucky after they won bronze in Saturday's downhill and silver in Monday's super giant slalom.
The Old Town runs downhill and terminates at Holyrood Palace.
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Exertionally and in practice somewhere between cross and downhill skiing there is Telemark, a sport which has gained popularity rapidly in the last several years.
The Generation 9 TA400 is equipped with dual retarder systems, a transmission retarder and exhaust brake, giving operators increased control in loaded, downhill hauls.
Where downhill skiers have slopes illuminated by flood lamps to boost their vertical mileage, snowshoers and cross-country skiers rely on moonshine.
Now it will quickly go downhill like many of the surrounding areas, so be prepared for winos and yobs urinating in the streets and causing all sorts of problems.
At Berwyn the river passes over the manmade Horseshoe Falls, before picking up speed on a downhill gradient past the Chain Bridge Hotel and its historic pedestrian bridge.
The revived Ffestiniog Railway and the Llechwedd Slate Caverns are popular tourist attractions, as is the Antur Stiniog downhill mountain biking centre.
Slumping happens on steep hillsides, occurring along distinct fracture zones, often within materials like clay that, once released, may move quite rapidly downhill.
Now, a fast jet stream travels in a pretty straight line around the planet from west to east, just like a mountain stream goes pretty straight downhill.
There are several disciplines of mountain biking besides downhill.
She had no control of her body as she tumbled downhill. She did not know up from down. It was not unlike being cartwheeled in a relentlessly crashing wave.
Don't you think the world has gone steadily downhill ever since parents stopped naming their children Lucy and Dorothy and started naming them Samantha?
It was not a situation that Rahlves, 34, one of the most accomplished World Cup downhill racers in American skiing history, would have imagined for his postretirement career.
Moorland-nesting merlins and golden plovers head downhill and may spend their winters on low-lying farmland or coastal marshes only a few miles from where they bred.
North of the Jizhou Canal summit section, the Huitong Canal ran downhill, fed principally by the River Wen, to join the Wei River at the city of Linqing.
For winter travel, consumers who enjoy snow sports can find areas dedicated to cross-country and downhill skiing, mushing, skibobbing, snowboarding and snowmobiling.
Pain with downhill walking may be related to a problem in the posterior ankle including soft tissue impingement, trigonal problems, or synovial chondromatosis.
Competitions range from men and women's skysurfing to street luge, downhill in-line skating, bicycle stunt riding, sports climbing and a grueling roster of water sports.
Barefoot ski jumping, snowboarding, bungy jumping, skysurfing, downhill BMX and in-line, sport climbing, street luge and eco-challenge have come and gone.
On the downhill, lengthen your stride slightly, and land more on the front of the foot, but don't overstride or you'll cause extra forces on the feet and legs.
Downhill skiers reach speeds of 80 mph while careening down an icy mountainside.

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