Although the road cyclists have at least a half-dozen group rides to choose from each week, the pickings are a bit slimmer for mountain bikers, who stage but two or three events a month.
The rounded, notched leaves, two to three inches wide, contrast with the shape of many other leaves and particularly with the slim ones on mountain lover.
Shepherd was a word-hoarder, and her slim masterpiece The Living Mountain carries a long glossary of Scots terms, which abounds with walking words (spangin', for "walking vigorously") and weather words: smoored, for "smothered in snow", and the unforgettable roarie bummlers, meaning "fast-moving storm clouds".
At this late date, the chances are slim, for example, that a mountain will be discovered in Brooklyn.
Among the handful of sandwiches available, top honors went to the platter of two juicy mini bayou burgers with a mountain of crisp, slim French fries.
The subject of this slim but powerful meditation is Yucca Mountain in Nevada, long the proposed site for storage of America's nuclear waste.
The subject of D'Agata's slim but powerful meditation is Yucca Mountain in Nevada, long the proposed site for storage of America's nuclear waste.
The best — notably "And the Bridegroom" (1993), which finds a slim lass asleep beside the dozing mountain of Bowery — are powerfully perfect on Freud's truculently conservative terms, forcing raw flesh across an unguarded, because unsuspected, frontier of beauty.
Poses considered standard for those who are fit or slim — standing with the feet together in mountain pose, kneeling with the forehead on the mat in child's pose — are often difficult or even impossible for heavier students.
The mountain that John D'Agata is ostensibly concerned with in his slim but powerful new book, "About a Mountain," is Yucca Mountain, located approximately 100 miles north of Las Vegas.
