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Recent Examples of tarnThe two main tarns on this trail are flanked by subalpine meadows with a variety of shrubs and wildflowers that change colors in the fall.—Graham Averill, Outside Online, 16 Sep. 2024 What didn’t end up in a New Orleanian’s blood ended up filling every pothole in the Quarter—a bubbly black tarn of viscid vice.—Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 7 May 2024 Pass Grant Lake, a deep blue tarn nestled in the sagebrush.—Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 22 Sep. 2022 One fuselage is deposited in an enormous hangar, used as a backlot on the slopes of the Sierra: the second one is nearly buried in artificial snow, and surrounded by olive trees; the third is found above the Sierra Nevada’s high mountain tarn La Laguna de las Yeguas, at around 10,000 feet.—Emilio Mayorga, Variety, 29 Apr. 2022 In the morning, kick off the day’s driving with a 30-minute excursion to visit the enormous sapphire tarn of Mono Lake, an alkaline expanse freckled with tufa spires, pinnacles formed by calcium carbonate interacting with freshwater springs in the lakebed.—Emily Pennington, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Feb. 2022 The lake, a glacial tarn called Roopkund, was more than sixteen thousand feet above sea level, an arduous five-day trek from human habitation, in a mountain cirque surrounded by snowfields and battered by storms.—Douglas Preston, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2020 Follow the winding trail toward the base of O'Malley Peak to a striking, dark tarn called Deep Lake.—Tegan Hanlon, Anchorage Daily News, 15 June 2018 In 1951, some 885 square miles of Cumbrian hills and tarns (mountain pools) were designated as a national park, Britain’s largest and, with 18 million annual visitors, its most popular.—Kieran Dodds, Smithsonian, 20 Apr. 2018
Forest walks, lazy lake days, midday swims, and evening bonfires are a part of your regular day.
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Miles Walls,
Better Homes & Gardens,
8 Sep. 2025
Steven Dobreff owns Freedom Boat Club in Macomb County's Harrison Township, offering boat usage and lake enjoyment for club members without the expense of boat ownership.
The reintroduction team assumed most of the population would settle in the southern third of Indiana, where large reservoirs and river systems create ample habitat.
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Sophie Hartley,
IndyStar,
3 Sep. 2025
Warmer temperatures increase evaporation, drying out rivers, reservoirs, soil and vegetation, and speeding up Earth’s water cycle as more water goes back into the air for precipitation.
The crannogs are on Loch Nell, a tranquil inland loch, and some argue they could have been constructed as solar observation sites.
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Carlton Reid,
Forbes.com,
25 Aug. 2025
Likewise, while the castle at Balmoral has been valued at $80 million, the Times includes the surround estate — including vast lochs, mountains and moores — at around $278 million.
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