Word: cliff
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...yours. The only hikers up here tend to be hardcore backpackers who cut off their toothbrush handles to lighten their loads. You're not even winded. Charlie Cox, a carpet-store owner from Glenwood Springs who heads the local snowmobilers' club, stares at a sheer red cliff glowing in the distance. "This is something we don't tell people in New York about," he says. "Or Denver." Cox, 51, climbs back onto his red Polaris Xplorer 400, knowing that this might be one of his last rides up Red Creek...
...true. But police questioned several airmen over the weekend. No charges had been filed by late Saturday, and the technical sergeant was not being detained. "We have escorted him in for questioning, and if he is indicted, he will be turned over to Okinawa police custody," said Marine Captain Cliff Gilmore, public affairs officer for the U.S. Okinawa military command. "The kind of behavior alleged is entirely unacceptable," Lieut. General Earl Hailston, the Okinawa commander, said in a statement...
...designers to do what they do best. But in recent years, fashion powers like Gucci, fearful that broad exposure was killing their cachet, have scaled back licensing. Growing a brand without cheapening it, says Liz Claiborne CEO Paul Charron, "can be a delicate balance. Once you go over that cliff, it's almost irretrievable...
...their exact latitude and longitude on the earth's surface to an absurd number of decimal places. Last year early adopters in the Portland, Ore., area began hiding little stashes of CDs, action figures, Band Aids and other goodies in exotic locations--on a mountaintop, underwater, hanging off a cliff face--and posting the coordinates on the Internet as a challenge to their fellow nerds. The idea is that once you find a cache, you take the prize but leave something else for the next person and sign the log book on your way out. According to geocaching.com there...
...weather was finally clearing as they reached the Hillary Step, the 39-ft. rock face that is the last major obstacle before the true summit. Erik clambered up the cliff, belly flopping over the top. "I celebrated with the dry heaves," he jokes. And then it was 45 minutes of walking up a sharply angled snow slope to the summit...