Bring a tent and find a primitive site either in the prairie at the base of the buttes or tucked into the junipers.
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Graham Averill,
Outside Online,
4 Mar. 2025
These pillars are denser clumps of gas and dust that the outflows haven't yet managed to erode, like how the towering buttes in the western United States have remained resolute to wind and rain erosion.
Linda is prepared to take matters into her own hands when Nicky orchestrates a drone attack to incapacitate her, after which Charity pushes Linda off the cliff to her death.
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Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
2 May 2025
In addition, several media and press reports suggested Microsoft was pulling back its data center commitments and canceling leases, which some took as a sign that demand was falling off a cliff.
These geomorphic formations of rugged slopes are known locally as ‘hogbacks’ and present a particularly harsh environment in which to try and perfect agricultural techniques.
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Paul Caputo,
Forbes,
30 Nov. 2024
The power lines that are perched on the property, its water scarcity, and the fact that Thunder Valley is surrounded on the hogback by trails and open space means it likely won’t be overrun by a housing development anytime soon.
The rim is a 1,200-foot-tall escarpment that rises dramatically above a broad valley, giving you the perfect perch for spotting the show.
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Graham Averill,
Outside Online,
3 Mar. 2025
The stately Fairmont Le Château Frontenac is a ubiquitous presence in Quebec City, always peering down on visitors from its highpoint on the Cap Diamant escarpment.
The property has a private tramway to transport guests 300 feet almost straight down the bluff from the main house at 9044 La Jolla Shores Lane.
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Noah Lyons,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Apr. 2025
Fifteen years after her husband’s drowning in the nearby bay, Tressilian’s days are spent in a cranky routine: grumbling over the obscene resort stationed on the opposite bluff, reading London’s gossip columns, and summoning the household help with the insistent ringing of a bedroom call bell.
The rupturing fault created an approximately 20 meters (or 65 feet) high new scarp on the seafloor, which in turns caused the water displacement and a series of six tsunami moving both east towards Sumatra, and west towards Sri Lanka, India and Africa—eventually reaching the Atlantic and Pacific.
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David Bressan,
Forbes,
26 Dec. 2024
Surrounding that is the environmental protective garment (EPG), the heavy, visible, outer covering of the suit that protects the astronauts from cuts and punctures on a lunar terrain that bristles with jagged rocks and scarps.
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