| 单词 | scree |
| 例句 | He lifts his head, considers me, then lowers it again to keep an eye on crevasses and seams, icy scree, slick rocky ledges—doggedly continuing. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z At the foot of the scree below my overhang about seven or eight figures sat round a dirty fire. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The light was catching something curious, and she shaded her eyes against the glare from the scree and tried to find it again. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He was in an unhurried, reconnoitering mood, with time to go to a rocky edge and take a glimpse of the near-vertical scree down which he would shortly have to throw himself. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z To her right a scree of small rocks and gravel sloped up to a cliff of crumbling limestone. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Between the edge of the burned forest and the mountains, a rocky slope of heavy boulders and scree was littered with scorched and twisted metal: girders and struts that had belonged to some complex machine. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I hurl the phone over the fence, as far as I can; it lands somewhere on the edge of the scree at the top of the embankment. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Grabbing him by his jacket, Nettle pulled him down a scree of broken bricks. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Gasping, Lee and Grumman forced themselves up the steep slope of rocks and scree. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He was with her now, peering into an abyss, and they saw how the scree plunged down through the cloud cover. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The going was loose and he was heavy, and more than once the scree shifted under his feet and carried him down again in a scramble of dust and gravel. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z She was annoyed that nobody asked her what a scree bed was. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Steep slopes of scree and soil laden with red-tinted hematite fell away into the abyss. In Chilean Patagonia, Following a Track to the End of the World 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z The elk leader struggled to find a path to the top, trying this route and that before sliding down the slippery scree. I hiked the Colorado Trail for nearly 500 miles. I was awed by the mountains the whole way. 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Nothing Mr. Self has previously written prepares you for the polyphonic scree of language that is “Umbrella,” however. Books of The Times: ‘Umbrella’ by Will Self 2013-01-17T21:22:51Z Every so often there is a fall of scree. Eilliott Carter: music of storms and stillness 2013-06-07T08:00:27Z We moved in this way until we reached an expansive scree field that buried several trail markers in its path. How to travel the world with 2 little kids: Teach them that every step counts 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z The book, according to Ms. Long, contains “screes of badly written hardcore encounters” and “appalling imagery.” ArtsBeat: A New Honor for the Hatchet Job 2012-01-30T20:18:52Z To get there, we first had to descend along a trail that switchbacked down a sheer slope of unstable scree. At a Wilderness Resort in Canada, Getting There Is the Only Hard Part 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z As I slam the car door, a stag jolts away down the scree. A wander near Ronda: Spain’s empty quarter 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z Guns.Up is astonishing, like being buried under an avalanche of scree, or sucked through a blizzard, backwards. New band of the day: Clipping (No 1,448) 2013-02-08T11:20:36Z We ascended into a landscape of scree and rock. Explorer: In Utah, a 100-Mile Trek With a 4-Year-Old Boy 2013-06-14T20:06:25Z Then I digitized i,t and it became scree- based. Brian Eno On Art, Music And Inspiration 2013-05-09T16:26:57Z The boys spoke of their courage across the wet scree and informed the table of our mantra, “Every step counts.” How to travel the world with 2 little kids: Teach them that every step counts 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Ride straight out of the back of the lift to pick up a track cutting across the huge scree slope of the Oberrothorn. Top 10 mountain bike rides in the Alps 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z We breathed a sigh of relief and silently hoped that we wouldn’t need to cross another scree field on our path to the hut. How to travel the world with 2 little kids: Teach them that every step counts 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z We discovered that this irregular trail — solid ground with sections of scree intermixed — carried a rhythm in its terrain. How to travel the world with 2 little kids: Teach them that every step counts 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Done well, a rock garden evokes a high country scree. This unusual garden style could be a sustainable solution for urban landscapes 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z My brothers and I headed up a path marked by Stonehenge-like monuments and ran into scree and talus, which sound like the title of a Nickelodeon cartoon, but are diabolical. Explorer: Facing Fear, With Family, in the Sierras 2013-09-05T13:00:28Z A cloud drifted across the moon, darkening the landscape, and I crept behind an enormous pile of scree, where I thought I might get a better view. Nazi Comb-Overs 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z We followed trails that switchbacked down a moonscape of loose slate and scree, and at one point lowered ourselves along a fixed, rickety metal ladder that abutted a sheer granite cliff face. | Switzerland: Hiking the Alps of Goethe and James Bond 2013-05-01T18:06:17Z Then it meanders through grassy fields rimmed with boulders and scree fields before gently descending more than 2,000 vertical feet over seven miles. Ultrarunners are heading to Crested Butte, Colo., long popular with mountain bikers 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z The deserted trail wound above the tree line, crossing tundra, scree slopes and bare black and gray rock. | Switzerland: Hiking the Alps of Goethe and James Bond 2013-05-01T18:06:17Z We had to move slowly, as a unit, across the scree field, lifting the boys to rocks they couldn’t climb onto and holding their hands as they jumped down from ones they could. How to travel the world with 2 little kids: Teach them that every step counts 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Putting the brakes on causes injuries; watch for rocks, gravel, scree, loose surfaces and roots. Fit in my 40s: will trail running make me faster? 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z More than once, my front tire drifts into the talus, and I have to snap back to alertness to avoid catapulting down the scree. Colorado adds a challenging new mountain biking adventure 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z The Chemical Brothers have headlined so many festivals that it's easy to take them for granted, but their combination of thumping beats, lasers and psychedelic scree rarely disappoints. The Big Chill: day one 2011-08-06T11:29:53Z Above 13,000 feet, the trail disappears, turning the final push into a steep, tortuous slog up loose scree guided only by cairns — stone towers left by previous climbers to mark the way. Blind faith: A visually impaired woman's journey up a towering California summit 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z Up in the mountains, they cling to “pockets in shifting scree, where gravel and rocks form barely the idea of soil,” Chips said. If you grow a tiny trough garden, expect to draw a crowd 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z They parked on the far edge of the outcrop, then continued on foot through a sloping scree field of glassy black stone until they reached a view of the mud flats to the east. Scientists warned of a Salton Sea disaster. No one listened 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z The first four days featured very limited access points and the entire route required the “North Cascades’ finest bushwhacking,” glacier travel, snowfields, scree, boulder and talus fields, and scrambling. 2 WA athletes trekked more than 120 miles of the North Cascades in less than a week 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z To the southeast he noted an alley filled with scree — it was a timeworn ball court, 350 feet long and 16 feet wide with sloping sides. Unearthing a Maya Civilization That ‘Punched Above its Weight’ 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z We met along the steep scree wall between Torre Brunico and Colfosco when I asked Stephen, who had a GPS device on his backpack, how much higher we had to climb. A midsummer ramble in the Dolomites 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Finnish camouflage for the Arctic snow, scrub and scree likely had kept the Americans from even realizing the command post was there when they landed, Finnish commander Lt. Finland, Sweden offer NATO an edge as rivalry warms up north 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z Rescuers launched a search for the 23-year-old when she failed to return on July 5, navigating the treacherous mountain terrain filled with rock fields, car-sized boulders, scree fields and snowfields in search of Morell. Missing hiker's body found in Montana mountains nearly 2 months after disappearance 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z Bits of hard cliff are quickly turning into slopes of scree; footholds and places to latch a rope are being lost. Coastal erosion threatens Senegal's rock climbing clique 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z Each one pops against the gray scree like a statement brooch. This Plant Evolved to Hide From a Predator. It Might Be Us. 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z The morning of Sept. 23, Glenn was soft-spoken and bummed out, having just descended a steep scree slope below Symmetry Spire after an unsuccessful chase that led him over fifth-class terrain. Teton goat shoot a physical challenge but success reported 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z Women, barred by the men from the mines, scavenge on mountains of scree. Special Report - Sleeping Beauty: How suspect gold reached top brands 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z As well as trampling native flora, tahr also snack on threatened alpine vegetation such as the the Mount Cook buttercup, the scree buttercup and ranunculus acraeus. Alpine ecosystems at risk as tahr population booms in New Zealand 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Down in the belly of the crater, men held the ends of giant black hoses between their legs and moved the nozzles back and forth, directing torrents of water into loose mounds of scree. Blood Gold in the Brazilian Rain Forest 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Meyer recorded pear trees on sterile mountain slopes, on the edge of a pond in wet soil, on screes, in bamboo stands and even in running water. Scientists thought they had created the perfect tree. But it became a nightmare. 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z Ahead of throngs of tourists setting out along the same trails, the foursome hiked and scrambled, navigating willows, a technical scramble and steep scree slopes to close the distance. Teton goat shoot a physical challenge but success reported 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z Putting in 12- to 14-hour days, seven days a week, they have scrambled up Mud Creek’s slopes with ropes and slalomed down in a cascade of scree. On unstable ground: Engineers and road workers fight Mother Nature while trying to fix Highway 1 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z Ever since that day, images of the banks of scree lining the winding ribbon of asphalt have carried a certain sense of menace, even as they shine bone-white under the midsummer sun. Mont Ventoux will cast shadow on Tour de France despite absence from route | Richard Williams 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z How do we get him to limit his scree time? How rightwing media saw Comey's testimony as a win for Trump 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z Not to be confused with trail-running, fell running often involves no trail at all but instead requires the negotiation of everything from sharp crags and loose scree to rolling hills and river crossings. I Get Knocked Down by the Hill, but I Get Up Again 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z Escaping the domehab meant venturing outside in a full space suit and contending with miles of crumbly, sharp volcanic scree. Here’s What It Feels Like to Spend a Year on ‘Mars’ 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z A group of people had assembled, their reddish skin distinct against the scree of white rock. An Isolated Tribe Emerges from the Rain Forest 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Finally at the top of this more than 6,000-foot-high pass, 10 University of Washington students — eight women and two men — jubilantly flopped on the rocky scree and ripped into their packs, scavenging lunch. Students’ trek ‘a reset for the human spirit’ as National Park Service turns 100 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z I took out my phone and filmed it as it ambled across the lunar scree. Alone in the Alps 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z A new landscape emerged; instead of forests and grassy hillsides, there were boulders, barren slopes, and expanses of scree. The View from a Himalayan Glacier 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z Then I took the patrolman’s advice and stuck to the scree, even though it seemed too far skier’s right from where I thought I was last winter. Fool’s errand produces gold in Snowmass’ Hanging Valley 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z On the sections that had been affected by landslides, scree and mud led straight down to the river below. The disaster that liberated me - BBC News 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z But the majority simply threw away their lifejackets, scrambled up some scree – and then started walking the 40 miles to the island’s capital. This poignant photo captures the harsh reality of life for thousands of migrants 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z She ended up in steep scree just above The Loch on Thatchtop Mountain. Climber rescued after fall at Rocky Mountain National Park 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z Dentley was lowered to the group of rescuers and assisted down several hundred feet of extremely steep scree covered hillside to the walking trail. Injured climber rescued at Oregon’s Smith Rock State Park 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z A vast pyramid of talus and scree in the Sierra Nevada range, it sits between the aptly named Wonder Lakes Basin and Mount Emerson, a namesake of the great 19th-century author Ralph Waldo Emerson. A Mountain to Honor Thoreau 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z No. This is the seashell band, a scree of broken seashells spread like shattered crockery. Going with the grains: Reflections on an Outer Banks vacation This year’s Tour focuses much more on the lush green climbs of the Pyrenees than on the rocky scree of the Alps. Tour de France 2014: Win for Michael Rogers; Shake-Up for Podium Places 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z Paul Knauth scrambled up a steep, rocky canyon in the Black Mountains of Death Valley National Park, sporting gloves and a walking stick to help navigate the sharp scree. Death Valley's First Life Came by Land, Not by Sea 2014-04-28T20:40:00Z The trip involved carrying a 45-pound pack, leaping between boulders and slithering down slick scree, and she suffered a deep gouge in her leg along the way. A fitter and more adventurous generation leaps, climbs, and pedals into retirement 2014-03-15T22:17:58Z In ice-blasting winds he will scour the scree for his caches in the dark months of winter. Operation Iceberg diary: Part 3 2012-07-31T01:06:07Z Racers scramble up and down cliffs, through loose mountain scree and down a mountain creek. Alaska man missing after July 4 mountain footrace 2012-07-06T21:08:27Z "Have you got four-wheel drive?" asks one of the passengers nervously as the car heaves up a 45-degree incline with scree tumbling beneath the tires. Arizona copper-mining row pits jobs against scenery 2012-06-30T00:21:59Z And now the screes of Bow Fell, flecked with snow, were not more cold and hard than her face as she gazed at the postilion's moving back and saw it not. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z On both sides the ridge sloped steeply down in an incline of scree and shattered boulders, the debris of the cliffs above. A Romance of Wastdale 2012-02-01T03:00:11.227Z The other way over the Crag saves half a mile, but it’s rough going along the scree.” The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories 2011-12-17T03:00:15.447Z Then turning the flank of a steep ascent, they reached the foot of a shingly scree, and sat down to lunch in the warm sunshine, where the wind was cut off by the peak above. The Protector 2011-12-14T03:00:17.460Z What followed in that hurly-burly—that mad scramble through brake and thicket, down crag and scree—is impossible to tell. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z It hung heavy above Langdale Pikes and over the long ragged screes of Bow Fell. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z A struggle had to be avoided at all costs, he thought; for it would land them both, locked together, on the screes below. A Romance of Wastdale 2012-02-01T03:00:11.227Z Less than 100 yards down the Doup the falling scree has nearly buried the cairn and iron cross erected to the memory of the Rev. James Jackson. Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England 2011-11-14T03:00:21.670Z Evelyn agreed, and they set out, following a sheep-path which skirted the screes, until they left the bank of sharp stones behind, and faced a steep ascent. The Protector 2011-12-14T03:00:17.460Z From our posts, at the head of a dizzy tumble of rocks and screes, no fewer than five distinct mountain-ranges were in sight, one-rising beyond the other, the last and loftiest clad in snow. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z A steep and wet scree gully leads down to the valley, and we may go part of the way down until we are about 100 ft. below the overhanging block. Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland 2011-09-23T02:00:23.653Z "Not there!" he muttered to himself, with a shudder, and crossed over the mountain top down to the screes. A Romance of Wastdale 2012-02-01T03:00:11.227Z It is the outlet for immense quantities of scree. Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England 2011-11-14T03:00:21.670Z The most thickly populated districts were to be found on the screes immediately below the cliffs. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z Let us make a cast round by the screes, and see if we cannot get down that way. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z It is mostly scree with a small pitch near the top, and was once marked above by a little cairn. Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland 2011-09-23T02:00:23.653Z Maybe we can just clean up all the scree and rubble that gathers in our aging bodies.” Book Review - Long for This World - The Strange Science of Immortality - By Jonathan Weiner 2010-07-31T04:32:00Z It may, however, be recognised by its liberal output of scree. Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England 2011-11-14T03:00:21.670Z In fact, these screes on which the nests are built have been formed by these landslides taking place from year to year, and no doubt form the graves of thousands upon thousands of former generations. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z There was a precipitous bank of rocks and screes to our right, quite unclimbable, which seemed only to want the will—they certainly had the way—to topple us into the abyss. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z Then the interest ceases for a while, as we mount some 130 ft. of scree and smooth rocky slabs at an easy angle. Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland 2011-09-23T02:00:23.653Z He fell 30 metres to the base and then another 60 metres down a steep scree slope. Mountaineer died after 200ft fall 2010-03-30T18:55:00Z We are here getting near the end of Great Napes, which are separated on the west from White Napes by the scree gully which is called Little Hell Gate. Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England 2011-11-14T03:00:21.670Z The screes at the foot of the cliff at Cape Adare are perhaps the most thickly populated part of the rookery. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z Having finished our botanical investigations, we pushed on to the upper end of the valley, and found that the cliffs, and screes, and snow-patches looked uglier and steeper the nearer we approached them. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z Most of these summits are of quartzite, with short heavy screes, white and extremely barren. Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland 2011-09-23T02:00:23.653Z Behind him he knew, he felt, were the mountains that he loved, stretching crag upon crag to the desolate screes of Wast Water and the glimpse of the shimmering sea. Years of Plenty It has a copious scree at the foot, and more than half-way up it divides into three. Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England 2011-11-14T03:00:21.670Z A characteristic Cornish deposit is the “Head,” an old consolidated scree or talus. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" He meant to take the rough mountain path over the screes from Lungern to Meiringen, which ran right behind the chalet. Miss Cayley's Adventures These hills, being of granite, have few precipices, many rounded summits, sloping sides, and heavy screes, of the usual uncomfortable angular nature. Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland 2011-09-23T02:00:23.653Z Mr. Headlam obviously both knows and loves the land of red screes; I am doubtful whether he is as much at home with the stock-manipulators of Wall Street or their emotional offspring. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. CL, April 26, 1916 A stone thrown down from here falls over both blocks and rolls down the snow out of the mouth of Lord's Rake on to the screes far away below. Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England 2011-11-14T03:00:21.670Z And tower'd screes that pierce giant hell Are treasure-houses for the dead: Each rich man writhes within a den, Society dames proclaim their shame. Betelguese A Trip Through Hell Then we buried it deep under the big pile of scree on my hill. Shapes that Haunt the Dusk From here screes lead up each part to the crest of the ridge, but a small rock arête separating the two branches give us climbing all the way. Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland 2011-09-23T02:00:23.653Z It crawled over tumbled boulders, and flowed over fallen scree. Sand Doom The eye looks right along the dark ravine of Piers Gill, which is apparently overhung by the long line of these crags, rising from tongues of rock divided by huge fan-shaped banks of scree. Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England 2011-11-14T03:00:21.670Z Convulsed with fear as aisles and halls Roar like giant cauldrons mad for gore, Icarian gumps and devils bold, Assault each marshalléd mount and scree. Betelguese A Trip Through Hell We took his body up in the darkness, and buried it in the scree on my hill; then we came back to Auber's room, and faced each other by the empty bed. Shapes that Haunt the Dusk From here to the summit is nothing but scree. Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland 2011-09-23T02:00:23.653Z The great muscular fellow dropped at once, seating himself upon the slope and digging his heels into the loose screes to keep from sliding down. The Lost Middy Being the Secret of the Smugglers' Gap After a laborious scramble up this scree the rake is entered, and only a few yards further the lower pitch of Deep Gill is seen on the left hand. Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England 2011-11-14T03:00:21.670Z Have you never been on Hawkswater then, with its lonely island, and the grey screes swooping down into the clear water? The Cock-House at Fellsgarth There, the shingle rattled down the screes, and she hesitated not to follow. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 Between their bases and the screes below tempting ledges wind upwards, but here the strata are almost vertical, rendering them extremely treacherous. Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland 2011-09-23T02:00:23.653Z At any rate there came a pause, and a small Basque boy in a blue beret began to descend the slope very cautiously, searching for lost balls in the scree. Foe-Farrell There is capital scree here, and a very rapid descent into Mosedale may be made by it. Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England 2011-11-14T03:00:21.670Z They walked down slowly, him leaning on her arm like an old man, steps faltering in the scree on the slope. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town Every other colour meets others in harmony—tawny sand, silver-grey scrub, crimson-tufted flowers like heather, black ribs of rock, puce shoots of screes, violet mountains in the middle distance, blue fairy battlements guarding the horizon. From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War The first pitch may be varied by striking up from the screes a few yards to the left of the main gully, by the cleft shown in the illustration. Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland 2011-09-23T02:00:23.653Z The old gentleman, he said, went louping over wet spots and great stones, and scraffling over crags and screes, till you would have thought he was some kin to a Herdwick sheep. The Squire of Sandal-Side A Pastoral Romance Men who have spent the day on the Pillar sometimes return to Wastdale Head round the head of Mosedale, and wind up by racing down these screes from the col to the stream below. Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England 2011-11-14T03:00:21.670Z It ran down to the foreshore, a broadening scree of rubble, ruined masonry, broken beams of timber—some of them smouldering; and over the top of it shone the blaze of the town. Corporal Sam and Other Stories "That will be Stephanu," he announced; and sure enough, before we had pushed a couple of furlongs up the slope, we caught sight of Stephanu descending a steep scree to meet us. Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 Still more to the east is a shorter gully, composed for the most part of scree, that can be taken in 20 minutes. Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland 2011-09-23T02:00:23.653Z "You'll staun here," he panted, indicating a little platform about two feet broad, and running along the full length of the "scree." The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner Ralph did not ascend the screes, out went up by Castle Rock, and walked northwards among the huge bowlders. The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance Turning right, he skirted the huge southern promontory till he came a scree hill, rising still higher toward the frozen peaks beyond. Oberheim (Voices) A deep glen lay beneath him—over it on the other side a wilderness of rugged screes and sheer precipices. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 It is clearly marked all the way up, and is most readily approached by crossing diagonally up the screes below the great gully and then skirting the base of the rocks of the western buttress. Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland 2011-09-23T02:00:23.653Z All round the pool was green grass, bright with the treacherous greenness that tells of deep bog beneath it, and then fair turf, and beyond the turf the rocky scree from the cliffs again. A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex The wind was blowing strong and keen in the valley; it had risen to a tempest on the screes. The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance Drake compared him to scree and shingle as against solid granite. The Philanderers Here begins a region of mountain, various with glens, fells, screes, scars, swards, becks, passes, villages, river-heads, and dales. The Purple Cloud Between this and the north ridge a large scree gully leads up to the highest part of the mountain, and from it on the right several short scrambles on good slabby rocks are obtainable. Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland 2011-09-23T02:00:23.653Z There was a shimmer left from the day's heat, which invested bracken and rock and scree with a curious airy unreality. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies Taking his pipe out of his mouth, and with the shank of it marking time to the doggerel, he said,— "Wheariver there's screes There's mair stones nor trees." The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance Only a desperate resolution took me through the tangle of juniper bushes into the red screes of the gully. Prester John I left the heather, scrambled up some yards of screes, and had a difficult time on some very smooth slabs, where only the friction of tweed and rough rock gave me a hold. Mr. Standfast There is yet a fourth gully, still further north, but it has only one obstacle in it, and more scree than anyone can possibly want. Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland 2011-09-23T02:00:23.653Z West-wind weather may make the North, even in September, no bad imitation of the Tropics, and I sincerely pitied the man who all these stifling hours had been toiling on the screes of Sgurr Dearg. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies There were long banks of broken screes, I remember, where the snow slipped in wreaths from under our feet. Greenmantle With my wrist-rope in his hand, he preceded me down the hill till we got to the red screes at the foot of the kloof. Prester John Many weary detours I made among moss-hags and screes and the stony channels of burns. Mr. Standfast At the moment when C. was about 300 ft. above the scree Evans was about 80 ft. below him, and could not advance. Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland 2011-09-23T02:00:23.653Z He slid down a long slope of screes, and then with a gasp found himself falling sheer into space. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies Towering crag and shingly scree showed blue and purple through it and then flashed again into brilliancy, while the long, grassy slopes gleamed with silvery gray and ocher. Vane of the Timberlands Above the hole whence the waters issued was a loose slope of slabs and screes. Prester John It was not very easy descending, and I slipped the last twenty feet, landing on my head in a soft patch of screes. Mr. Standfast From this point in four or five terrible leaps he fell over and over, a total distance of 200 ft., to the screes below. Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland 2011-09-23T02:00:23.653Z Another second and he was caught in a tangle of bush, and then dropped once more upon screes, where he clutched desperately for handhold. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies Then turning the flank of a steep ascent, they reached the foot of a shingly scree, and sat down to lunch in the warm sunshine where the wind was cut off by the peak above. Vane of the Timberlands A little further, however, I lit on a bank of screes which slipped with me to the right, and I lost most of the ground the bush had gained me. Prester John I left the road accordingly, and took to the hillside, which to my undoing was one long cascade of screes and tumbled rocks. Mr. Standfast Above the upper screes at the foot of the higher crags several ascents may be planned from below. Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland 2011-09-23T02:00:23.653Z They had found her a long distance from the path, at the foot of a steep and rocky scree, some twenty or thirty feet high, down which she must have slipped headlong. The Case of Richard Meynell Evelyn agreed, and they set out, following a sheep path which skirted the screes, until they left the bank of sharp stones behind and faced a steep ascent. Vane of the Timberlands It grew very hot, and the screes above the thicket were blistering to the touch. Prester John I found myself slithering among screes, climbing steep chimneys, and travelling precariously along razor-backs. Mr. Standfast Presently it takes a more northerly direction and becomes a steep, wide slope of scree following the line of cliff to the great blocks of fallen stones which mark the mouth of the chasm. Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland 2011-09-23T02:00:23.653Z Cold gray clouds were beating from the north, hanging now over the cliffs on the western side, now over the bare screes and steep slopes of the northern and eastern walls. The Case of Richard Meynell "I tell you, there is fifteen hundred feet of slippery screes below you." Two Years Ago, Volume II. We did not stop to relight it, but scrambled down the screes till we came to the long slabs of reddish rock which abutted on the beach. Prester John In daylight, if the stones were dry, a man with steady nerves could use the path, but when slab and scree were packed with snow nothing but a Herdwick could cross it safely. The Buccaneer Farmer Published in England under the Title "Askew's Victory" We are now at about the level of the upper limit of scree on the Mynydd Moel face, and a traverse can be effected round to the oblique chimney already referred to. Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland 2011-09-23T02:00:23.653Z Look again, as stronger proof, at the talus of broken stones—screes, as they call them in Scotland; rattles, as we call them in Devon—which lie along the base of many mountain cliffs. Town Geology Presently I was on a steep hill-side, which I ascended only to drop through a tangle of screes and jumper to the mires of a great bog. Salute to Adventurers I was hideously frightened, but not without hope, for the screes and shelves of this right side of the gully were known to me from many a day's exploring. Prester John After a while the way grew better, though here and there, where the cliffs lowered, were wide screes of loose stones that they must needs climb up and down. The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale In doing so we pass first a scree gully and then an inviting cleft up to the left, but this is found to lose its interest after the first 20 ft. Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland 2011-09-23T02:00:23.653Z We went round the seaward end of the snouted glacier, and after tramping about a mile over stony ground and snow-coated debris, we crossed some big ridges of scree and moraines. South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition We made a circuit of several miles round the head of a long ravine, and came to a steep bank of red screes. Salute to Adventurers I followed it through the undergrowth and over the screes till it turned inside the fold of the gully. Prester John We slid down screes of ashes, carefully avoiding the lava streams which glided sluggishly by us like fiery serpents. A Journey to the Interior of the Earth After this a little more scrambling leads to a scree and an easy finish. Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland 2011-09-23T02:00:23.653Z Her portrait had not done her justice; he dwelt upon her fearless confidence as she came down the screes, her light, sure step, and agile pose. The Girl from Keller's On the other hand, they are not noticeable when they seek the cover of rocks, hills, screes, or scrub, owing to similarity of colour. The Sportsman I flew up the steep screes, not daring to look round; but at the top, where the rocks begin, I had a glimpse of my pursuer. Prester John Below, a precipitous slope of small stones that the dalesmen call a scree ran down to a hollow strewn with broken rocks, and across this he could distinguish the blurred flat top of another height. The Girl from Keller's There are innumerable scree gullies up the face, but the rock ridges in between them have no good features. Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland 2011-09-23T02:00:23.653Z Well," said Helen thoughtfully, "there's a short line down the scree and across the shoulder of the fell below, but it's steep and rough. The Girl from Keller's They set off and Festing noticed Helen's confidence on the scree. The Girl from Keller's |
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