Even in the afternoon sun though, a short walk can easily lead you into perennial mist forest and over the trickle of a mountain stream.
He splashed over to the foot of the stairs and looked up at a ladder of water coming down, a scrim of ice on the edges like a mountain stream.
Throw in an unexpected dunking in a cold mountain stream and a competitor can lapse into uncontrollable shivering and incoherence.
Reporting from Tennessee some years ago, Bagehot was left slack-jawed on entering Knoxville's titchy yet lavish airport, which boasts a giant indoor replica of a Smoky Mountain stream, complete with real trees, 18, 000 gallons of water, boulders and a wooden sculpture of a bear.
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The Keurig system has proven to be a nice employee perk and businesses are installing thousands of them, while Green Mountain also reaps a stream of pure profit from coffee roasters who pay a fee to use its K-Pack cups.
He added that McCain's surge among the electorate indicates that Americans are seeking a reformer -- "a clean, cold mountain stream" to wash away the taint of special interests.
There was no trail that the young man could see, but they were working up and around the face of the mountain and now they crossed a small stream and the old man went steadily on ahead up the edge of the rocky stream bed.
Next week, if all goes according to plan, a small mountain of snow will be melted, repeatedly sterilised and then injected in a high-pressure stream of near-boiling water to clear a bore-hole through the two miles of the ice-sheet.
Every tricky traverse in mountain, stream or forest needed doing twice over: once to find a way for himself, then to collect the steed, often carrying it shoulder-high through sharp palmetto, or water, or rocks.
But when the victim was 17 years old in 1983, the priest took the youngster to a mountain retreat near Big Bear Lake in California, and when they took a break by a stream, the priest "gave me a hug and kissed me as if I were a woman, " the victim wrote.
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