The coldest air arrives Friday night, with lows dropping into the low teens across the plains and urban corridor, and even colder readings expected in the foothills and mountain valleys.
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Callie Zanandrie,
CBS News,
9 Jan. 2026
Built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1935, the quarter-mile-long run has a 30-foot tower and dips and valleys, for a total vertical drop of about 90 feet.
Swipe it onto the hollows of the cheeks, across the forehead, and across the bridge of the nose for that just-got-back-from-vacation glow.
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Ariana Yaptangco,
Glamour,
18 Nov. 2025
The ideal of wuwei (无为, effortless action) is commonly illustrated by the famous story of Cook Ding, who learned to follow the hollows and openings of an animal’s body and effortlessly wielded his knife to carve an ox.
So where fiber connections may be expensive to make (think rivers and ravines, for instance), or where permitting is very challenging, FSO could provide just the solution.
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IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
22 Dec. 2025
However, the weeks surrounding them can provide spectacular views of their own, as the line separating night from day, known as the terminator, sweeps across its surface, throwing ancient craters, ravines and mountain ranges into relief.
There’s also Switzer Canyon nearby, so there are two big canyons that are just gorgeous walks.
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Carlos Rico,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Jan. 2026
With a 52-minute run narrated by Quannah Chasinghorse, an Indigenous climate activist from Alaska, the movie follows the filmmakers’ quest through cactuses and canyons to document the jaguars amidst uncertain times and a changing landscape.
Overnight at the Turkey Run State Park Inn, which has both a lodge and cabins set in 2,382 acres of woods and sandstone gorges.
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Ashlyn Ware,
Midwest Living,
7 Jan. 2026
In West Virginia, many of the thousands of bridges spanning mountain valleys and gorges are named for local veterans and on Main Streets in small towns, banners feature hometown soldiers, some of whom fought and died in past conflicts.
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