hardpacked

They followed a hardpacked trail, which was only sporadically overgrown.

Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011

They followed a hardpacked trail, which was only sporadically overgrown.

Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011

They followed a hardpacked trail, which was only sporadically overgrown.

Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011

They followed a hardpacked trail, which was only sporadically overgrown.

Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011

         A half mile beyond they broke starkly into a clearing where the ground was hardpacked and bare; a two story dwelling, a hunting camp with ambitions, had been left partly covered in Tyvek, partly in unfinished plywood.

The Warden 2010

If she fell, there was no grid below to catch her, only hardpacked sand racing by at a hundred kilometers per hour.

Scott Westerfeld: Uglies Quartet Scott Westerfeld 2010

The ceiling was about four inches above my head, and from the ceiling to the barn floor was a foot of hardpacked earth supported by lodgepoles.

A Girl's Legs Stirring The Air 2010

Riding the trails of Boulder seems to have toughened my hide to things such as flying off of rocks and sliding on loose gravel where the "hardpacked trails in redwood forests" snooty crowd from out west seemed to be overwhelmed with spandex diaper wetting fear at the sight of these.

Moab - this one goes to 11 KBK 2009

Erupting up through the desert on an otherwise bright and unblemished stretch of sand, a column of hardpacked dirt pointed skywards like an accusing finger.

Firefly Ship Works Ltd. » Blog Archive » Stray Dogs, Chapter One: An Unexpected Gift 2009

Riding the trails of Boulder seems to have toughened my hide to things such as flying off of rocks and sliding on loose gravel where the "hardpacked trails in redwood forests" snooty crowd from out west seemed to be overwhelmed with spandex diaper wetting fear at the sight of these.

Archive 2009-04-01 Marty 2009