box canyon

There will be many box canyons, broken trails, and treacherous areas.

Someone stumbling over her body this fall in one of those box canyons west of town?

The terrain varies from box canyons to high cliffs and pine-covered mountains.

He and Zane had found several box canyons in which he could have landed the plane, but this was the only one with water.

Sheer to the east, mildly sloping to the west, it opened out into two box canyons and a long, narrow plain.

Canyons within mountains or gorges that only have an opening on one side are called box canyons.

Massive piles of rocks and three shallow box canyons provided plenty of places for ambush.

Box canyons were frequently used in the American West as convenient corrals, with their entrances fenced.

Side valleys, box canyons, and sheer dropoffs all provided pitfalls for the ignorant traveler.

A space marine stares through his sniper rifle's display as two of his enemies have a philosophical discussion about life and box canyons.

They were at the head of one of the many box canyons leading down into Noctis, a rounded canyon end that dropped rapidly away.

Today, visitors to the Snake River area can explore the house-size boulders, box canyons, and other evidence left behind by the tremendous flood.

We pass Mauro's decaying blind at the top of the cliff and move into position to watch the walls of the surrounding box canyons for nests.

Although commonly referred to as "craters," these formations are "erosion cirques" (steephead valleys or box canyons).

The river flows through a series of isolated box canyons, emptying into the San Juan River at Navajo Lake.

Each year some of them--sometimes a lot of them--burn to death, piled up in box canyons or at the foot of bluffs.

Here, the contrasting landscapes remind visitors of the Colorado, with its high plateaux, its gorges and box canyons, and its peaks sometimes splintered by erosion.

Driving to the left-hand fork and disappearing into hills laced with side roads, most of which ended in box canyons, a few feeding to the Valley, the freeway, alleged civilization.

Next morning they planned to load and start, squarely into the teeth of the north, on their perilous traverse of half a thousand miles of lakes and rapids and box canyons.

Those deep valleys, eroded by rivers like the Jacks Fork or Barn Hollow Creek, cut deep box canyons, their south faces protected, warm, a season ahead of the north faces.

He had tried many trails, but some of these had ended in box canyons, or had led up to treacherous, narrow ridges where only bighorn sheep or mountain-bred mules could walk with safety.

He spoke of it with longing: one of the few box canyons in the eastern United States, a green mountain rising along one side, and on the other, a wall of "huge rock cliffs not unlike Yosemite."

Many animals which wandered into box canyons hadn't the wit to find their way hack out again, and with Eyebolt the possibility of escape was further reduced by the choke of brush piled at the canyon's mouth.

Among the latter are three enormous, craterlike makhteshim (box canyons), which are unique to the region; Makhtesh Ramon, Makhtesh Gadol, and Makhtesh Katan.

The Outsider would have been reckoning north-northwest by sheer instinct and no doubt would have frequently been required to backtrack out of box canyons; therefore, in this mountainous terrain it had very likely traveled between sixty and ninety miles on the ground to cover those thirty air miles.