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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.
Just remember to layer up because the river gorge usually feels cooler than town.
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Taryn White,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Sep. 2025
After visitors make their way down the 137 steps from the parking lot and visitor center—a journey that is decidedly less pleasant on the way back up—they’ll get their first glimpse of Natural Bridge, a towering structure set within a rocky gorge.
EchoStar’s deal last year to sell Dish Network to DirecTV — then majority-owned by AT&T — was scrapped after EchoStar bondholders rejected the debt-exchange terms that would have reduced the vale of their holdings.
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Todd Spangler,
Variety,
26 Aug. 2025
And, far and near, through vale and hill, Are faces that attest the same;
The proud heart flashing through the eyes,
At sound of Rob Roy’s name.
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.
Winding through Derbyshire’s limestone dales, the Monsal Trail is an 8.5-mile ribbon cut from the old Midland Railway line.
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Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
16 July 2025
But more than 24,000 square miles where these states converge around the Mississippi was untouched by the ice sheets, leaving hills and dales to roll freely, secreting forest-banked rivers and sandstone sentinels.
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