Best for Solo Train Enthusiasts: Scotland Discover the incredible and indelible beauty of the Scottish highlands, full of lochs, glens, castles and fluffy highland cows and sheep on a journey with Vacations by Rail.
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Wendy Altschuler,
Forbes.com,
16 June 2025
One of the biggest temperate rainforests in the United States, the Hoh Rain Forest is worth visiting just for fantastical trails like the Hall of Mosses and Hoh River Trail that wind through peaceful glens of trees positively dripping with moss.
Typical diurnal winds prevailed with westerly/up canyon, gusting near 20 MPH, observed in the afternoon.
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CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
8 Sep. 2025
The helicopter then lands inside the canyon, where participants start their epic journey on the river to the infamous Eyjafjallajökull volcano, past glaciers, waterfalls, and basalt columns.
Effective water bars can prevent runoff from concentrating on these lines and causing trenches and gullies to form.
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CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
13 Aug. 2025
The volunteer firefighters were on the scene last week when Kearns got caught up in the flow of a gully filled with waist-deep water, before being swept into a drain pipe that goes below the street.
Over time, the powerful current carved out massive gorges and canyons, including the Grand Canyon of the Nujiang.
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Lauren Liebhaber
September 2,
Miami Herald,
2 Sep. 2025
The 876-foot-high New River Gorge Bridge, which crosses the eponymous gorge, is also billed as one of the longest single-span steel arch bridges in the Western Hemisphere.
So far, Dadu mountain lizards have been found in the Dadu River valley in Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, a region of central China, the study said.
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Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
3 Sep. 2025
The early-morning thunderstorms that rumbled across the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys Tuesday also produced nearly 10,000 dry lightning strikes, sparking wildfires from the Mother Lode to the grasslands of eastern Sacramento County.
There were more creeks, high hills, big parks, passes, and open mountainsides with broken, timbered canyons and gulches.
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Fred C. Mercer,
Outdoor Life,
14 Aug. 2025
Mandatory evacuations were active along the Colorado 13 corridor from the White River near Meeker to south of Piceance Creek Road in Garfield County, parts of Rio Blanco County east of Willow Creek and south of Piceance Creek, and gulches west of Colorado 13.
Watson Lake: Enjoy kayaking or paddleboarding, or simply relax and take in the beautiful scenery around this stunning lake surrounded by ancient granite dells.
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Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
4 July 2025
The boys both love hotels and taking family trips to the dells or the bay beach.
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