Word: canyoning
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...Tecate, the fire by Tuesday night had charred 70,000 acres, destroyed 200 homes, killed one man and injured 25, including five firefighters. To the north, the Witch Creek Fire burned 164,000 acres in the towns and communities of Poway, Ramona, Lakeside, San Marcos, Valley Center, Rincon, Wildcat Canyon and Rancho Santa Fe. By Tuesday, it had destroyed 500 homes and injured seven firefighters and two civilians. Other fires - in Rice Canyon, Poomacha, McCoy and Coronado Hills - destroyed homes and burned thousands of acres throughout the county, keeping firefighters scrambling and frightened residents wondering whether their neighborhoods would...
...very large property of a friend who was away in college. As they stopped to see if the house was OK, they saw their friend's father dash into the house's backyard. The house's yard was being attacked by a fire that had filled the canyon behind the house. "The whole canyon was on fire," says Gudim. And it was now at the edge of their friend's property...
...molecular biology. But he felt crowded by colleagues whose rivalries consumed them as much as their research. So he set off for the University of Utah, where the sight lines suited him better and collegiality was the key to success. He lives in a house high over a canyon. "I love looking across long distances," he says. "I think it sort of opens up my mind...
...always a gamble because you don’t know what someone will do when you lead him into the water.”And for this film, Penn would literally lead his actor into water. Hirsch took the challenges in stride, kayaking along the Grand Canyon rapids among other physically demanding stunts. In fact, Hirsch says, a longing for adventure inspired him to take the role. “I had a kind of feeling, not of dissatisfaction, but a superabundance of energy that didn’t have an outlet in the way I was living...
Mining engineers call it a "bump," but that seems like far too tame a term for what happened at the Crandall Canyon mine in Utah Thursday night. As rescuers tried to dig down to where six coal miners have been trapped since Aug. 6, the walls of their tunnel exploded inward violently, hurling projectiles of rock and coal at the workers. The awful result: two rescue workers and a federal mine inspector are dead, and several more are in the hospital...