At this point Ron will fly to the south side of the valley to try to get on the windward side of the hillsides. |
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This may explain, in part, why this is occurring on many hillsides or hilltops. |
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Hotels and the more well-to-do families on the hillsides would set off fireworks. |
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The plants were rare in the valley itself, although they were profuse on the hillsides. |
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Villages of mud huts dot the hillsides and oases of green amid the barren wilderness provide sanctuary for its denizens. |
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Less lime is generally required on bottomland, more on hillsides and the most on hilltops. |
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It presents a visual panorama like no other, mile upon mile of terraced hillsides clad in limestone pavements. |
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The canyons, arroyos and hillsides here all drain down to create Las Virgenes Creek and Las Virgenes runs down to Malibu Creek. |
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Even before the aspen and willows leaf out in the spring you'll see honeysuckles' green haze in abandoned fields and across wooded hillsides. |
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Soon thunder rumbled across the heavens and flashes of lightning lit up the hillsides as thick curtains of rain swept towards us. |
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England's busiest mountain rescue team had a frantic weekend with members rushing up hillsides in soaring temperatures to tend casualties. |
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They also say that urban sprawl on hillsides and in low-lying areas has been allowed to grow out of control. |
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From dazzling mountains and hillsides to lush, subtropical grounds, these hip-hotels offer the perfect respite for both young and old. |
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This is where modern California was born, when 19 th-century gold seekers swarmed across these tawny hillsides seeking treasure. |
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And the crew left no telltale scars on the fragile hillsides where they had been intensely working, she says. |
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Nablus, in the north of the West Bank, is surrounded by steep hillsides forming a basin, containing the main town area. |
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Behind the cabin was a large empty yard and beyond that trees and steep hillsides topped with pink cliffs and crags. |
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With the forest kaput, erosion creates a tropic moonscape of barren hillsides. |
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People beyond thirty or forty years of age remember winter woollies, slides on frozen footpaths and weeks of sleighing on hillsides and roads. |
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The Thorsborne Trail is an ungraded trail and is rough with loose stones, difficult creek crossings and, in wet weather, slippery hillsides. |
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This was a day of blinding heat amid the scent of mountain hay and the hillsides covered in bracken. |
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Most lie along deserted hillsides in the uplands, just beyond the margins of modern agriculture. |
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The Shenandoah flows bucolically through the rich farmland, forested hillsides, limestone cliffs, and sandy islands of Virginia. |
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Of more general interest, perhaps, is his account of the nascent viticulture of the poorer peasants on the cleared hillsides. |
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Absent ministers phone in from Tuscan hillsides as some hapless stay-at-home is left to carry the can. |
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We see livestock dotting the hillsides as we climb and I wonder what sort of doughty stoics would choose to farm such challenging country. |
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We raced up gravel hillsides with stomach-churning vertiginous views all around. |
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What a difference a week makes just now, verges frothy with cow parsley and hemlock, hillsides painted yellow with colza. |
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The ancient huon-clad hillsides rise up steeply on either side as we drop down into the gorge, the river winding below us. |
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Oblivious of all this, the westering sun bathes the ocean and grassy hillsides in a balmy, golden light. |
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Builders and developers converged on unbuilt lands that included marshes and hillsides. |
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For example, roads and rivers can look like snakes as they wind across and through valleys and hillsides. |
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While there you can take in its picturesque hillsides and valleys, along with visiting the Mekong Delta. |
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To avoid detection, these rocks were hidden on hillsides and in valleys, so as to allow for a quick escape from the authorities. |
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He said that although Bradford had a lot of brown-field sites these were restricted by geography such as hillsides and valleys. |
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Time and travelling feet have worn grooves into hillsides as much as 3m deep. |
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Going up the winding hills, we see hillsides green with pines and Douglas firs. |
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For the next 15 days, she looked for his body in ravines and morgues, on hillsides and in rivers. |
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Several pictures present them in precarious spots on hillsides or in snowy mountain scenes. |
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It's a potentially back-firing gamble just as the hillsides and valleys are scorching with sporting ardour. |
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I saw young black spruces growing higher than ever before on boreal hillsides in Alaska, and subtle changes transform the tundra. |
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Those who profit from clear-cutting hillsides contribute to the floods that sweep away the homes and crops of those living below. |
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The giant structures are more commonly seen on rural hillsides than in busy city centres. |
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The enemy were on the hillsides above where they had landed, entrenched on the high ground. |
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The hillsides below it had been cleared of scrub, leaving no cover under which armed men could move unnoticed. |
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Decades ago, these slopes were covered with forests, and the trees' root systems tied the soil to the hillsides. |
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By the time, you get to Dunkeld, the roads and rivers are fast and wide and surrounded by deep green forested hillsides. |
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The tilted hillsides were dotted with cows, and the cypress and eucalyptus trees were exquisite. |
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The hillsides are intensely covered by molle pepper trees, ferns and genipaps that make a deep contrast with the grey and pink coloured rocks. |
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The sun rose gracefully, and gilded the glorious Welsh hillsides with soft light. |
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Most people live in individual family compounds surrounded by banana groves and fields and scattered across the hillsides. |
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Without the work these planters do, soils would erode, hillsides would slide into streams, and entire habitats would be devastated. |
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These days pear orchards and wine grapevines dot some of the hillsides. |
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Have you been gambolling on the hillsides, skipping over bluebells and snowdrops whilst hiding eggs under tuffets of grass, listening to the call of new-born chicks? |
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His Angus cows, some a Hereford mix, black and white faces molded into rhetorical Noh masks, were scattered about, grazing on the hardscrabble hillsides. |
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After a four-hour ramble on foot through deep gorges, past monasteries, and up steep, forested hillsides, we arrive in Chhulemu, Babu's home village. |
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The mudslides were set off on Christmas Day after a downpour fell on hillsides that had been stripped of vegetation by wildfires in October and November. |
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People might say they are calm but the way we've cut up the landscape here is raw, brutal, hillsides of houses brushing right up against the forest. |
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In the dry season, the air grows thick with smoke from burning hillsides. |
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And on spring nights of purple sunsets, with woodsmoke scenting the air and new-born lambs covering the hillsides like little balls of cottonwool, it must have been heavenly. |
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Originally vegetation held the friable, highly-weathered schist in place, but brush clearance and cut-and-fill construction have destabilised the densely inhabited hillsides. |
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It is the highest rally in the series, the undulating roads climbing to more than 2700 metres on hillsides awash with cacti, pine trees and river crossings. |
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We were driving around Speyside the other day looking for bonny purple heather and found that the hillsides were blanketed with the dull cerise of willow-herb. |
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He had been hoping for a quick end to this campaign, utilizing the ship's guns to pound the hillsides above the defenders in an effort to dislodge and disorganise them. |
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Dairy animals pasture on hillsides where machines dare not go. |
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Unless agricultural production is increased on the good lands, population pressures will cause farmers to move upslope and deforest the hillsides. |
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In Washington, these are often located at openings within coniferous forests, clear-cuts, wetlands, rivers, and along brushy hillsides, at low to middle elevations. |
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New machinery dug, drilled, pumped, and clawed underground, and many mines began using large-scale earth movers to strip the hillsides above the mine seams. |
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Surface mining began in the United States in the late eighteenth century, when farmers and others dug coal from exposed coal seams on hillsides and stream banks. |
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The beauty of not only every infinitesimal detail around me, but also the tangibleness of the hillsides that surrounded us, gave me a tremendous hopefulness. |
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The Saharan winds were blowing sand onto fertile hillsides, and when it rained the water was cutting gullies through the rich alluvial soil along the wadi. |
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Except for a few hillsides, which are terraced with trails to gain more flat terrain for beginner skiers, the terrain matches that of the Pisa range. |
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Already, Glover has started clearing one of his hillsides and developing contoured fields similar to the terraced strips of land the Hmong worked in the mountains. |
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Incredibly, this stable, rural world still exists two hours south of Paris in the village of St. Brancher, where small farms lie on the hillsides, and cows drowse and forage. |
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The European serin inhabits wooded and shrubby hillsides, and also utilizes well-vegetated agricultural areas, such as vineyards, orchards, and plantations. |
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Sumptuous buildings rise up from the wooded hillsides, the four-storey mansions are festooned with shapely balconies and are as curvaceous as an Edwardian belle. |
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Gaudily attired tribespeople wander through market places selling hand-made embroidery, while conical-hatted workers labour in the rice paddies clinging to the lush hillsides. |
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Most of the victims were from the shantytowns built on steep hillsides that surround the city. |
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Cities took advantage of the hillsides to support their major architecture, as at Palenque and Yaxchilan. |
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The site was constructed over three hillsides separated by two large arroyos called Los Cuijes and Agua Nacida. |
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It appears to have been a theocracy with the elite inhabiting the hillsides and the rest of the population on flatter lands below. |
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Hydraulic mines, using powerful water cannons to wash whole hillsides, were the chief sources of gold for the next 20 years. |
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As such, much of the city is built on hillsides with views into the city centre or out to the countryside. |
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Early agricultural peoples preferred good forests on hillsides with good drainage, and traces of cattle enclosures are evident there. |
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When there is very heavy rainfall on California hillsides over a prolonged period, there is almost always ensuing surface runoff. |
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Shot rock is irregular-shaped angular cobbles and boulders blasted from surrounding hillsides. |
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Childe's other hobbies included walking in the British hillsides, attending classical music concerts, and playing the card game contract bridge. |
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The foothills opposite are covered in collapsing terraces that peter out as the hillsides steepen. |
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However, a few small licensed mines continue to work seams, mostly from outcrop, on the hillsides. |
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This may be covered by the later village, which has long occupied the whole narrow strip between the steep hillsides and the lake. |
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Dazzlingly white houses with blue painted windows clinging to hillsides rising from the deep blue Aegean Sea mark the unmistakable landscape. |
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The mountains are dry and brown and so remote that not even helicopters fly overhead, spraying their poison over papaverous hillsides. |
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Red deer have a stronghold on the moor and can be seen on quiet hillsides in remote areas, particularly in the early morning. |
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Vineyards are often on located on hillsides and planted in soil that is of only marginal value to other plants. |
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In order to build his forum and the adjacent brick market that also held his name Trajan had vast areas of the surrounding hillsides leveled. |
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Water ran slap across the roadway from the hillsides and every few seconds the scene jumped into light and was gone again as the lightning zizzled through the clouds above. |
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As I write this today,I am looking over the rolling hills of the Tay Valley, shrouded in pearl grey clouds, small snow patches scar the hillsides. |
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Collectively these are some of the Lake District's most rugged hillsides. |
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The earliest mining took place at and close to outcrops and miners eventually followed the seams deeper underground as the beds dipped beneath hillsides. |
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The preferred nesting sites are on coastal hillsides or cliffs. |
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When I was older I went out on the hillsides and dug the roots of oose, or Amole as the Mexicans call it, which were excellent to use in place of soap. |
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The cultivated hillsides of the Douro river valley of Northern Portugal. |
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Slumping happens on steep hillsides, occurring along distinct fracture zones, often within materials like clay that, once released, may move quite rapidly downhill. |
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The valley has evidence of habitation going back to roughly 4000 BC, when the valley and surrounding hillsides were almost entirely covered with forest. |
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