humidity in Alaska. In contrary, it often rains as well as hot and humid in Hawaii in the summer. Supporting Detail 2: Another difference is neutral beauty. To illustrate, the glaciers in Alaska are awesome. It has the Chugach Mountains and Mount McKinley, the highest mountain in North America. On the other hand, Hawaii has Volcano National Park and Waimea Canyon. Other than that, the beaches in Hawaii are among the most beautiful in the world. Conclusion: In conclusion, both Alaska and Hawaii have
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I have always loved the Smokey Mountains in Tennessee during the fall season. The brilliant, colorful leaves of red, yellow, orange and brown glisten in the sunlight. Leaves dancing from the limbs of massive tall trees as the wind blows swiftly across the ridges. The smell of pine is coming from the beautiful lush pine trees. Early morning brings a white cloud of fog from deep in the valley, making it appear as if one were sitting on top a giant cloud. Being welcome by large antler deer, fluffy rabbits
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“There are mountains in central Alabama?” I asked. My intrigue turned into a Cheaha State Park weekend getaway. Nightfall and a pushy headwind created navigation challenges on the twisting road, with multiple S-curves and steady ascents. Ramping upwards, sparkling silver stars peeked from the skies, welcoming us to this secluded forested haven. Your weekend experience awaits, complete with hiking, history, and southern comfort food. Dominating the landscape of the Talladega National Forest, Mount
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Diamond T Ranch is a ranch located around Potter Creek in Bannock County, Idaho. The manager being J. Phillip Adams. Like most farms, Diamond T Ranch mostly deals with farming and ranching actions. Now, it was in 2001 when Adams wanted to fix a road that was crossing over Potter Creek. The reason why is because Diamond T Ranch had two fields with the creek cutting it in half. So, with the improvements on the road they could transfer equipment between both fields. The project ended up being called
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for a trek to the famous Kilimanjaro Mountain. The most exciting thing about this mountain is its snow covered exterior as opposed to the bursting with lava interior core. Moses has always been fascinated by this fact and wants to visit the mountain by climbing it. He has been warned by many that the trek is strenuous and that it needs proper training and stamina to actually reach the top. Moses’s interest in climbing and experiencing the Kilimanjaro mountain, its environment and wildlife rose
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echo through the mountains and watched the helicopter morph from a massive machine into a tiny dot floating in the sky miles away, we stood alone and abandoned at the top of a snowy ridge, staring down at our dream: a vast world of untracked powder, laid out below the nose of our snowboards. A few deep mouthfuls of crisp mountain air and we took to the snow, following the guide’s turns and breaking fresh tracks. Not a lift line in sight, no lift pass necessary, and an entire mountain range for us to
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Jill Cottle Econ 2302 Professor Nervo July 30, 2013 Deforestation and its Effects Deforestation is a prosperous business. Land is cleared to make room for infrastructures and other transportation which links once inaccessible populations to valued marketplaces and vice-versa. The scope of the problem with deforestation has been seen world-wide from the Brazilian Amazon, Indonesia, Russia, and even in the United States. Deforestation has a big payoff in the beginning; as trees are cleared
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the Black Hills. The whole family already has her bags packed and are ready to go. I’m the last one to leave the house and get into the car and I am not ready for this road trip. I said myself “this is going be the most boring trip ever, just mountains and trees and a 14 hour car ride of agonizing pain and misery with nothing else to do but sit there and look out of the window at corn until we get there. My sister I don’t normally get along with is kicking the back of my seat screaming that she
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sea level, Mt. Guiting Guiting is not nearly one of the tallest peaks in the country and yet it is one of the most sought after mountains in the record of Philippine Mountaineering. Dubbed by some local and international natural scientists as the “Galapagos of Asia,” Mt. Guiting Guiting boasts of its thick and old growth vegetation and forests. Sure enough, the mountain doesn’t have the freezing temperatures in Pulag or the height of Apo and yet it has caught the attention and gained the respect
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The shining mountain The short story written by Alison is from year 1992. The story is about a young girl named Pangma-La, who with her father is about to climb the shining mountain, which also is called Pangma-la. Her father is a mountaineer, who wants his daughter to become the same, and therefore he is taking her to the shining mountain so she can be trained in climbing mountains. On their way to the top of the mountain, Pangma-la becomes more and more tired, but she keeps on going to not disappoint
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