Word: terrains
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...kind. They accuse my Toyota and its beefy brethren of being wasteful, anti-social, dangerous and even of abetting terrorism. I'd like to think that the critics' hostility, like other forms of bigotry, stems from ignorance--because they simply don't know my vehicle or the rugged Montana terrain it ranges over. But I sense that their anger has deeper roots...
...men’s slalom, junior Matt Perone led Crimson skiers with a 45th place finish, followed by Myers at 46th and freshman Sam Simon at 49th. The team members remarked that the unseasonably warm temperature of 52 degrees made for very soft and bumpy terrain...
While the hilly terrain of the course played to McLoon’s strengths, the two-loop circuit also had some very technical aspects. But McLoon managed to navigate its narrow chutes and sharp turns to edge University of New Hampshire’s Kate Underwood by 13 seconds, finishing...
...rate at which the ice sheet is growing (because of snowfall) and the rate at which it is shrinking. An ice sheet is, in essence, a viscous plateau, and under the burden of its own weight it is ever so slowly sliding downhill. Because of variations in underlying terrain, however, its slide is not uniform. In the Ross Sea sector, for example, ice is most efficiently conveyed out of the ice sheet's interior by ice streams, which spill onto the Ross Ice Shelf like frozen rivers...
Though Feller called the Nordic conditions “perfect”, the Alpine team was faced with less-than-ideal terrain...