I declined to ride down the first and steepestpart of the trail, and eventually it ended in my running down the four miles, and resting at the bottom for half an hour for the others to come up.
We kept ourselves from cramped weariness, and saved the horses, by walking up the steepest hills.
It was quite close to me, bearing north-east by east, and subtending an angle of 12 degrees 23, and is much the steepest and most conical of all the peaks of these regions.
The south or steepest side is encumbered with enormous detached blocks, while the north is clothed with a dense forest, containing red tree-rhododendrons and oaks; on its skirts grew a white bushy rhododendron, which we found nowhere else.
She was a fearless walker and was not to be thwarted by the steepest paths, even when these were filled with snow in which one's feet sank up to the ankles.
After half an hour's progress we reached the steepest part of the ridge, at the foot of which we were obliged to leave the asses.
But it is perfectly surfaced and climbs the hills in such long sweeping curves and easy uniform grades that the steepest scarcely checks the flight of our car as it hastens at a thirty-five mile gait to Brecon.
We then climbed much the steepest and most dangerous hill we found in all the twelve thousand or more miles covered by our wanderings.
And it was well that they were, for the trail was the steepest and narrowest that I have ever seen negotiated by horses.
They are incredibly strong and tireless, the two men who carried Hawkinson's heavy motion-picture outfit to the summit of Bromo making the round trip of forty miles in a single day over some of the steepest trails I have ever seen.
Where the hill-slopes are steepest the rock frequently occurs in loose angular masses and is entirely bare of soil.
Whenever either of you young ladies will do me the honour to take a seat with me, I will pledge my character, as an Albanian, to carry her to the foot of the highest and steepest hill in town without disturbing a riband.
We had a coach which seemed to choose the steepest hill on the route, where it then struck a stone, which heaved the coach, pulled out the king-pin, and what I remember of the occurrence is full of sprains and aches and general gloom.
The way down to the shores was the steepest place I have ever seen horses and mules attempt.
I have referred already to the Irishman's love for breakneck bridges, and the prize one of all is at the village of Ballintoy, into which the road drops down the steepest of hills.
It so happened that there was a gate not far from our hotel, so we passed through it, and found ourselves confronted by one of thesteepest streets I have ever seen.
To reach the upper town you drive up a very precipitous road, or walk up a long flight of timber steps, which shorten the steepest portion of the way.
Nevertheless he persisted in clambering up some of thesteepest parts of the trail, and was increasingly dismayed by the endless upward reaches of the foot-hills.
She was pleased, too, by his care of the weary animals, easing them down the steepest slopes and sending them along on the comparatively level spots.
The steepest side is also the most exposed to the public gaze.
The direct ascent from Wastdale is one of the steepest lengths of grass slope to be found among these hills.
He ensures an easy descent down the steepest declivity by his 'shoe-drags,' and the power of reversing the action of the engines.
But this may be easily remedied in the structure of a carriage, and is not of very material consequence in the steepest hills that we have.
A low thick hawthorn hedge runs along some distance below the earthwork just at the foot of the steepest part of the hill.
There was no car on this side of the glacier to carry them down the mountain, but there were long ladders to help them over the very hardest and steepest places.
It is the steepest pass on either of the roads by which the valley of Nepaul is entered, and for that reason seems generally chosen by the natives, who would not for the world miss the pleasure of toiling up an almost inaccessible mountain.
Glashgar was only about three thousand feet in height, but it was the steepestof its group--a huge rock that, even in the midst of masses, suggested solidity.
Night comes rapidly on in the short winter months, and as Sir Moses looked at the old-fashioned road leading over the steepest part of the opposite hill, he wished he was well on the far side of it.
After climbing about a thousand feet above the plain I came to a picturesque mass of rock, cropping up through the underbrush on one of the steepest slopes of the mountain.
The six miles of road to the base of the mountain compasses some of the steepest grades known to railroad engineering.
The width of the road is not above twelve feet in the steepest part of the hill, and two carriages cannot pass without the greatest danger.
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