The coureurs des bois faced deadly rapids, canyons, blizzards, bears, wolves, and marauding Iroquois.
Through huge rocks and small canyons we roar, through picturesque desert and slowly melting, sticky-to-the-touch, two-lane blacktop.
The 510 is suited for the most challenging conditions, such as canyons and adventures with heavy tree cover.
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The cap is cut by canyons and troughs that plunge as deep as one kilometre beneath the surface.
The early weeks of entrepreneurship requires canyons of endless work, rivers of excitement and rapids with ugly boulders.
Attia's first Roundhouse will be a 13, 000-square-foot residence set on a 3.25-acre lot in the canyons above Beverly Hills.
He lives in a mostly unfurnished home in one of Los Angeles' canyons.
From breakfast on, the railway twists ever upwards into the Canadian Rockies, vaulting canyons and boring through snow-tipped mountains.
The Canyons spans 4, 000 skiable acres, making it the biggest resort in Utah.
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Fanned by strong winds, the blaze ravaged hillsides and canyons in Ventura County near Los Angeles, threatening homes around two towns.
Winds gusting to 65 mph through mountain canyons blew the wildfire through containment lines into northwest Colorado Springs on Tuesday afternoon.
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As you travel through its canyons, it's easy to forget that nature even exists, let alone that we're part of it.
Its rivers, plunging from well-watered highlands into deep canyons, have hydropower potential.
The terrain they faced was formidable: canyons frothing with white water, vast, scrub-dotted deserts and the steep, snow-streaked ranges of the Rockies and Sierra Nevada.
The impressive views continue as it speeds alongside the cliffs and canyons of the upper Colorado River, before descending into the deserts of Utah and Nevada.
This 7km-long white-knuckle adventure combines hiking, climbing over smooth rock slabs alongside waterfalls, ziplining over a surging river and navigating wild canyons via bridges and metal rungs.
We were a group of 14 experienced outdoors people (including a former river guide), and we knew to make the side canyons our top priority.
The Blue Mountains national park is a World Heritage site and covers a million hectares, with huge cliffs, deep rainforest gulleys, sandstone canyons and waterfalls.
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Forecasters said high pressure over the Great Basin would send Santa Ana winds through and below passes and canyons and near coastal foothills until Thursday afternoon.
Further east, families can get a taste of the Wild West, saddling up for a cowboy adventure through the desert and canyons of Utah and Arizona.
Chicago's housing projects, lawless canyons, were replaced by pretty flats.
They spent a week in late May in this remote area of southern Utah, rafting the San Juan River, camping on the soft banks and hiking the tributary canyons.
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We wound past cactuses and scrambled up rock terraces as we made our way toward the narrow ravine of Elves Chasm, one of the Grand Canyon's most picturesque side canyons.
Slowing down to explore the side canyons is a first-rate way to pack extra adventure into a classic American trip, as well as to fully absorb the area's geological diversity.
The next thing I know, the train has worked its overnight magic, and the canyons of office blocks and black cabs have been replaced by red deer grazing on granite crags.
You don't have to squint too hard to picture a 10-year-old Myhrvold scrabbling for fossils in the canyons of the Santa Monica, Calif. mountains, his bored mother waiting helplessly on the hillside.
At the moment, memory chips are made by laying down strata of different chemicals on a silicon base, and then carving canyons through the layers in order to separate the individual components.
The Ecuadorian Andes are a fiendish proposition for any transport planner: a three-mile high spine of mountains that runs down the centre of the country, unfolding into high plateaus, fissuring into canyons and sheltering mist-shrouded old towns.
Midnight blue lakes reflect the huge forested canyons in their flawless waters, crystalline waterfalls flow from the mountain tops and exquisite orchids and rhododendrons weave threads of colour through the greenery of the forest floor.
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