The constant fires burned everything down to the bare rock base.

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Proud and free, Okello ended up on hard rock in the bare and barren Ngong Hills.

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In sun, rain or snow she was up there, digging down through the turf and the fibrous black peat until she hit bare rock.

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The helicopters were going back and forth, ferrying snow from the high peaks in the Alps down to naked ski slopes so that the World Cup ski racers would have something to shush on besides bare rock.

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