Throw in an unexpected dunking in a cold mountain stream and a competitor can lapse into uncontrollable shivering and incoherence.
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 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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
They are widely regarded as a world-class natural attraction containing marvellous stream passages formed by three rivers that sink underground on the slopes of Cuilcagh Mountain.
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.
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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