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Recent Examples of barrancaClark held his nerve to the end and was right there with him, even after a rare errant shot into the barranca on the 17th.—Doug Ferguson, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2023 His ball landed on the barranca, one of the steep-sided gullies at The Los Angeles Country Club.—Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 16 June 2023 The Los Angeles Country Club’s barranca, a narrow gully, winds through the course, providing drainage during rainy season and a challenge to the players.—Bill Pennington, New York Times, 15 June 2023 The barranca that crosses the front of the tee runs down the left side of the hole.—Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2023 Jones shifted the fairway toward the canyon rim, with little rough or foliage to stop a golf ball from bounding into the barranca.—Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 June 2021
Thousands of years ago, the 52,000-plus acres now known as Mesa Verde National Park were home to the Ancestral Pueblo People, who built a series of sophisticated stone dwellings in the cliffs here.
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Cu Fleshman,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Sep. 2025
In this sequel to The Ice Road that trades Canadian ice flats for cliff-edge drop-offs and hairpin passes, Neeson’s grieving character Mike McCann heads to the Himalayas to scatter his brother’s ashes.
But that very week also gives evidence to how fragile the Faroes are; under these extreme weather conditions, scars in nature heal slowly, if ever.
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Mattias Goldmann,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
But the scars from that era are still very much present in society, and the son, Im Dong-hwan, represents the youth of today who are trying to come to terms with that generational complexity and its legacy.
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