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  • For a solid day we scouted the steep-walled valley, learning the trails and deciding on the best way to escape and avoid detection.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

  • For a solid day we scouted the steep-walled valley, learning the trails and deciding on the best way to escape and avoid detection.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

  • I collected shards from cheap unglazed pots of the sort used for shipping olives and fish paste, and carried them in my shawl through the door in the wall and down the stairs in the steep-walled canyon.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • The bright lake was in a round, steep-walled valley on the very peak of a mountain.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • The bright lake was in a round, steep-walled valley on the very peak of a mountain.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • The bright lake was in a round, steep-walled valley on the very peak of a mountain.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • With an altitude of 1,000-2,000 ft (300-600 m), it is trenched by the Copper River and its tributaries, which form steep-walled canyons 100-500 ft (30-150 m) deep.

    Coastal Trough Humid Tayga Province (Bailey) 2009

  • I collected shards from cheap unglazed pots of the sort used for shipping olives and fish paste, and carried them in my shawl through the door in the wall and down the stairs in the steep-walled canyon.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • Groups of rugged steep-walled mountains with sharp summits 2,000-5,000 ft (600-1,500 m) high, separated by broad flat valleys and lowlands, rise abruptly above the lowlands and low hills to the north and east.

    Ahklun Mountains Tundra - Meadow Province (Bailey) 2009

  • I collected shards from cheap unglazed pots of the sort used for shipping olives and fish paste, and carried them in my shawl through the door in the wall and down the stairs in the steep-walled canyon.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

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