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Recent Examples of tarnThe two main tarns on this trail are flanked by subalpine meadows with a variety of shrubs and wildflowers that change colors in the fall.—Graham Averill, Outside Online, 16 Sep. 2024 What didn’t end up in a New Orleanian’s blood ended up filling every pothole in the Quarter—a bubbly black tarn of viscid vice.—Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 7 May 2024 One fuselage is deposited in an enormous hangar, used as a backlot on the slopes of the Sierra: the second one is nearly buried in artificial snow, and surrounded by olive trees; the third is found above the Sierra Nevada’s high mountain tarn La Laguna de las Yeguas, at around 10,000 feet.—Emilio Mayorga, Variety, 29 Apr. 2022 In the morning, kick off the day’s driving with a 30-minute excursion to visit the enormous sapphire tarn of Mono Lake, an alkaline expanse freckled with tufa spires, pinnacles formed by calcium carbonate interacting with freshwater springs in the lakebed.—Emily Pennington, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Feb. 2022 Pass Grant Lake, a deep blue tarn nestled in the sagebrush.—Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 22 Sep. 2022 The lake, a glacial tarn called Roopkund, was more than sixteen thousand feet above sea level, an arduous five-day trek from human habitation, in a mountain cirque surrounded by snowfields and battered by storms.—Douglas Preston, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2020 Follow the winding trail toward the base of O'Malley Peak to a striking, dark tarn called Deep Lake.—Tegan Hanlon, Anchorage Daily News, 15 June 2018 In 1951, some 885 square miles of Cumbrian hills and tarns (mountain pools) were designated as a national park, Britain’s largest and, with 18 million annual visitors, its most popular.—Kieran Dodds, Smithsonian, 20 Apr. 2018
Chula Vista police said the latter site was for residents living south and west of the lake, and few people were there when a reporter visited around noon.
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Alex Riggins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Jan. 2025
More:Powerful polar vortex in the stratosphere brings frigid temperatures to US
A 'significant' amount of Lake Erie is covered with ice
Footage obtained by USA TODAY shows the view of the Manitoulin at a standstill in the middle of the lake.
The Park District envisions an initial phase with five baseball fields, six multipurpose athletic fields, a domed soccer field, stadium with running track, accessible playground and a pond.
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Mike Nolan,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Jan. 2025
Police and firefighters created a rescue command post at the bridge across from the girl’s home, officials said, and firefighters put on their cold water suits and went into the pond to look for her.
There was an empty reservoir in Los Angeles County, overgrown state forests, under-resourced fire departments, mismanaged water and political dysfunction — a steady stream of evidence that the state and the county had failed to guard against a wildfire with the same rigor as the Vogts had.
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Eli Saslow,
New York Times,
19 Jan. 2025
The ember cast, blown due south by high winds, will devastate the area on the west side of the Eaton Canyon reservoir.
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Terry Castleman,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Jan. 2025
After that, the cast headed out on their first mission, which required them to paddle a rowboat around the loch and capture a maximum of $40,000 while leaving two contestants at each of the five pontoons along the way, which also left them vulnerable to be the first one murdered.
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Dana Rose Falcone,
People.com,
10 Jan. 2025
The twist is that along the way, in exchange for the money or fuel at each pontoon, two players must volunteer to be abandoned, thus sacrificing safety from the first murder and enduring a cold and wet afternoon on the loch.
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