Without a sense of scale, every slope was magnified and stream rivulets resembled gorges.

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The most popular route along the valley today is an ascent of the Mont des Loups, bounding up wooden steps and over little rivulets through a forest dappled with sunlight.

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We happily raced to catch the rivulets of locally made chocolate chip cookie dough and mint Oreo ice cream melting down our cones and dripping onto our hands.

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As the iron travels through the air, the surface melts in rivulets that either vaporize or fall away in minuscule fragments, leaving a surface textured with grooves called regmaglypts.

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Pulling out of the station past the back yards of a multitude of Cairene families, our children watch in wonder as local kids play football beside the tracks, bathe in muddy rivulets, fly kites from the roofs of their homes and wave at the passing train.

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