Next leg was from Truckee to Sunriver, across the western ridge of the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Berm crest: ridge of sand or gravel deposited by wave action on the shore just above the normal high water mark.
You hug the ridge of a huge inland cliff, looking out over a sea of moorland and trees towards the Scottish uplands.
The ridge of the South Downs I was walking had become a frontier in the landscape, dividing the world into realms of weather, light and colour.
The East Coast is enjoying a ridge of high pressure that has provided a dome of warm air, said Atlanta NWS forecaster Keith Stellman.
My wife and I had just returned from a hike up the ridge of Spigot Peak on the peninsula proper, and therefore part of the Antarctic continent itself.
The jungle outpost of Lago Agrio is in northeastern Ecuador, where the elevation plummets from the serrated ridge of the Andes to the swampy lowlands of the Amazon Basin.
The World Heritage Site of Thatta-Makli spreads over 10 km, and consisting of a remarkable array of tombs, monasteries, mosques and enclosures, situated at the ridge of the Makli Hill.
The properties are now unified by flagstone paths and flanked by small trees and adobe walls that snake along the ridge of the 7, 500-foot-high cliff that slopes into a canyon.
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From a sun lounger on your private rosewood deck, all you can see is a stretch of tawny grassland extending beyond your infinity-edge pool to a ridge of distant hills.
It also more experienced politicians, John Kasich and Rob Portman of Ohio, Tom Ridge of Pennsylvania, Jeb Bush of Florida, who see an opportunity to lead the party back to power.
You can take a scenic scheduled charter flight over the back ridge of the Mahale Mountains from Arusha (four hours) with Zantas Air or from Dar es Salaam (six hours) with Safari Airlink.
The location every "Pride and Prejudice" fan wants to visit is, of course, Pemberley -- "a large, handsome, stone building, standing well on rising ground, and backed by a ridge of high woody hills, " as Austen describes it.
The mountain passes and ridge tops of the Trans Pecos have the highest average wind speeds in Texas.
The Hanleys had roots near their summer home in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and in Palm Beach, Fla.
This morning Chevron announced a very significant oil discovery at its Coronado prospect in the Walker Ridge region of the deepwater gulf.
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He says he expects his harvest to increase this year after following the radio station's advice, which enabled him to plant two groundnut rows on a ridge instead of one.
Democratic mayoral candidate Christine Quinn said she visited five parades, including one in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn, where she posed with her father, Larry Quinn, 86 years old, a World War II veteran.
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Mr. ZEV YAROSLAVSKY (Supervisor, Los Angeles County): Where we have tried to protect the ridge lines of the mountains from gaudy, ugly and defiling developments where the occupant of the home would have a 360-degree view, but that the rest of the world would have to look at that gaudy building.
For instance, the kiosk explains that Rothermel's deliberate perspective puts the viewer 125 yards from the copse of trees just below Cemetery Ridge in an area of the battle line known as "the Angle, " a jog in the stone wall defended by the Philadelphia Brigade.
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Hooper Holmes, of Basking Ridge, New Jersey, conducts physical examinations of applicants for life insurance policies.
To the east of Old Cairo, a limestone ridge marks the edge of the Nile valley and the beginning of the desert.
"It's definitely a new low, " says Lan Price, assistant manager of Ridge Crest Memorial Park in Batesburg-Leesville, S.C.
Asked if federal authorities had dropped the ball, Tom Ridge, director of the Office of Homeland Security, said he did not believe so.
Jam Nizamuddin Tomb is one of those structures that are located at the edge of the ridge, have developed cracks due to settlement caused by soil erosion and lack of protective embankment.
Shin learned in late December that on Jan. 2, his crew of sewing-machine repairmen and some of the seamstresses would be escorted to a mountain ridge on the eastern edge of the camp.
The mountains in the state's northwest region roll off the southern tip of the Rocky Mountains, and a maze of mountains and valleys funnel the wind into extreme speeds by the time they pass over ridge crests and mountain tops of the Guadalupe and Davis mountains.
This year's spelling bee saw the youngest contestant, 6-year-old Lori Anne Madison of Lake Ridge, Virginia.
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