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...The city of Albuquerque in New Mexico is buttressed on two sides: to the east by the mountain ridge of Sandia Crest, which in winter is dusted with snow, and to the west by the Three Sisters, a trio of extinct...
...We look out over the pressure ridges and cracks, past the black dots of seals, searching in the distance for patches of yellow, like pee stains on the ice....
...British fell-walker Alfred Wainwright described it as thus: “Flowers, heather and bilberries bloom on the pleasant little ridge where stands the summit cairn.”...
...Crouch Valley’s Danbury Ridge, while not in the competition, has also won acclaim for its velvety Pinot Noir....
...At one point we skim low over forest where two moose lumber through deep snow. Later we soar up a bank of trees, birch tips twanging on the basket, to crest a ridge that plummets suddenly....
...this same slope with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who ascended Scafell from Wasdale in August 1802 before famously flirting with death climbing down via Broad Stand on the other side, on his way to Scafell Pike...
...When a huge adult male lumbers into view, there are little gasps from the kids....
...My family have long been fans of this grand pub, with its outside tables, views to Thieveley Pike and a patch of field for games....
...Just $6,000 of lumber later, he’d built a house in Powhatan County, a timber ranch house with a metal roof and stone chimney....
...Rains come and go, thunderstorms flash, rumbling over the ridges behind. It’s not exactly the suburbs....
...The owner is Chad Pike, vice-chairman of investment and advisory group Blackstone Europe, who is building a portfolio of super-luxe holiday properties around the world – a country estate in Wiltshire, a...
...Top producers: Anvers; Arrivo; Ashton Hills; Barratt; BK Wines; Bird in Hand; The Lane; Lucy Margaux; Ngeringa; Penfolds; Petaluma; Pike & Joyce; Protero; Shaw & Smith; Tapanappa; Geoff Weaver; Whisson Lake...
...He gestured to the volcanic cone of Dufton pike and said to me: “This earth is sacred to us – this is our Mecca – in this I recognise no policeman: none can take this from us.”...
...Once there, walk south-west along the ridge until you reach the peak of Wansfell Pike. Having pummelled your legs on the steep downhill into Ambleside, pop into Lucy’s for a generous slice of cake....
...and Great End …” when all you can see is a series of indiscriminate ridges and hills running into the horizon....
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