The Ventura County blaze, which was expected to reach the Pacific Ocean, crossed the scenic Pacific Coast Highway that separates the Santa Monica Mountains from the sea.
The Ventura County blaze, which was expected to reach the Pacific Ocean, crossed the scenic Pacific Coast Highway that separates the Santa Monica Mountains from the sea, and small fires damaged a military firing range, a Navy spokeswoman said.
Alice went wine tasting, sightseeing on a ferry, took some bus and train rides along the coast and into the mountains and generally, held up pretty well indeed.
Where the jagged peaks of the Black Cuillin Mountains meet the sea, the coast is battered by Atlantic gales and monsoon rains.
Today, however, a range of newly popular active sports are reinvigorating the former battlefields, as travellers discover a world of ice-blue rivers, rugged hills and thick forests, which unfurls south from Karlovac to meet the vertiginous Velebit mountains that rise up towards the coast.
Palo Alto Online reports that California highway 92, which starts at Half Moon Bay on the Pacific Coast and runs east over the Santa Cruz mountains, this morning was lined with hundreds of parked cars moved by coastal residents trying to keep their vehicles out of the way of any damaging waves.
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In the U.S., the capacity of pipelines exporting natural gas produced in the Rocky Mountains to markets in the Midwest, East Coast and West Coast rose more than 40% between 2001 and 2006.
That contrasts with 10% on the East Coast, 21% in the Midwest, 17% on the West Coast and just 3.5% in the Rocky Mountains.
Marrakesh sits at the foothills of the Atlas Mountains in the heart of Morocco, midway between the Mediterranean coast and the edge of the African interior.
There's the Gulf Coast, Texas Hill Country, the Great Plains, Sonoran Desert, Rocky Mountains, Blue Ridge Parkway, Great Lakes, and so on.
Before reaching their destination, the teams will cross mountains, frozen rivers and forests before hitting the wind-pummeled coast.
Carved out from the mountains on this beautiful stretch of Italian coast, Positano was both upscale and family-oriented.
The Graf Goetzen was then transported in parts, in 500 crates, from Hamburg to Dar es Salaam on the coast of East Africa - and from there over mountains to Lake Tanganyika where Germany, Britain and Belgium were all engaged in colonial jostling.
All Americans should know that one act of kindness extended to a family of a soldier, a sailor, or a Marine, a Coast Guardsman, reverberates across water, over the mountains, and through the deserts, into the heart of the warrior who is standing there alone, thinking as much about his family as his family is thinking about him or her.
And sat atop the range like a rocky prong is the peak of Naranjo de Bulnes, its shape more akin to the mountains in the windy wilds of Patagonia than the northern coast of Spain.
But my favorite cartographic error is the Mountains of Kong, a range that supposedly stretched like a belt from the west coast of Africa through half the continent.
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With shape-shifting scenery reminiscent of an eerie moonscape or the gnarled mountains of Caucasia, Durmitor offers visitors the most splendid of isolation, all just three hours from the coast.
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