I climbed a steep slope of bright orange sand a little below our camp, a rather hard task as the sand was loose, causing us to slip backward at every step.
I came to a whitish cliff upon which I thought there might be water-pockets, and I mounted by a steep slope of broken stones.
Once as we hung upon a steep slope, where the snow was exceedingly soft, Hirst omitted to make his footing sure; the soft mass gave way, and he fell, uttering a startled shout as he went down the declivity.
We first descended a steep slope to the glacier, along which we walked for a time.
Between the old burrows and the new one was a steep slope.
Without saying a word, he rushed out, pinioned the offender by the elbows and, running him to the top of a steep slope in the street, gave him a kick which sent him flying down the declivity.
Below us was a steep slope, rough with projecting crags, while, as we passed along, showers of loose stones rolled down the mountain side and made an infernal clatter, ever reminding us not to slip.
But just as I felt that I was beginning to freeze, that there was no longer any use in trying to keep going, we began to descend a steep slope, and at the foot of it rode into a grove of big cottonwoods and out of the terrible wind!
The cliff was broken down in many places, more a steep slope of boulders than a cliff, and it was not high.
This is the quickest but far the most tiring way of going straight up a steep slope.
On a steep slope, however, it is always safer to begin by standing the upper ski on end before turning it, as otherwise its point is apt to catch in the snow before it has reached the proper new position.
The snow, moreover, adjacent to the rock had been melted and refrozen to a steep slope of compact ice.
A steep slope of rocks connected the base of this precipice with the brow of a second one, at the bottom of which the first body was found.
Having surmounted a steep slope, we passed to some red and rotten rocks, which required care on the part of those in front to prevent the loose and slippery shingle from falling upon those behind.
The cliffs continued inside the cove on each side and merged into a hill which descended at a steep slope to the boulder beach.
The rocky face of the cliff was undercut at this point, and the shingle thrown up by the waves formed a steep slope, which we reduced to about one in six by scraping the stones away from the inside.
At this southern end of the Caird Coast the ice-sheet, undulating over the hidden and imprisoned land, is bursting down a steep slope in tremendous glaciers, bristling with ridges and spikes of ice and seamed by thousands of crevasses.
It extended about forty feet down a steep slope to the river.
A number of large rock fragments crashed down the steep slope, bounding, hurtling, and ripping the air with terrific speed.
But one day, while slowly descending a steep slope, I unintentionally threw a flock into confusion.
Evidently the deer was off balance and on a steep slope.
There can, however, be little doubt that showers of ejected matter may settle on a steep slope, and may include shells and the remains of aquatic animals, which flourish in the intervals between eruptions.
Among other effects of the catastrophe, it is stated that cattle standing on a steep slope, near the shore, were rolled down into the sea, and many others were washed off by the great wave from low land and drowned.
The cliffs are vertical, but their feet are covered by a steep slope of soft dA(C)bris.
A steep slope, unbroken save by precipices, comes sheer down from the top to the plateau, and the mountain is barren and fawn-coloured like the rest of the country.
Hope we don't have any trouble from now on," said Joe, as he followed the old man up a steep slope.
Gradually the path spiraled down the steep slope until it passed through a narrow valley, which was green with a variety of luxuriant vegetation.
I hope nothing further comes up to stay us," remarked Bob, as they descended a steep slope.
A quick way of getting up a steep slope is side-stepping.
They tend to wear away the aluminium or linoleum plates fixed to the Skis under the foot, but on the other hand they are almost indispensable when Skis are carried across a hard, steep slope, or down an icy path.
Then a heavy pull up a steep slope in wretched light, making detour to left to avoid crevasses.
Started well in the afternoon and came down a steep slope in quick time; then the surface turned real bad--sandy drifts--very heavy pulling.
In the afternoon we soon came to a steep slope--the same on which we exchanged sledges on December 28.
After the first mile we began to rise, and for some way on a steep slope we held to our ski and kept going.
If they came to a steep slope of hard snow or ice, they hacked steps up it with small axes which they carried slung on their backs.
Illustration: Very soft Snow which, on a steep slope, would cause an Avalanche (page 60).
The Col de Miage is reached by a steep slope of ice or frozen snow, and is just a gap in the chain of peaks which runs south-west from Mont Blanc.
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