Port Renfrew Just two hours' drive from Victoria, Port Renfrew is a gloriously underdeveloped west-coast hideaway on Vancouver Island, boasting soft sloping mountains bristling with hemlock trees and Douglas firs, and waves crashing on unspoiled sandy beaches.
"Indeed," Screwtape later says, "the safest road to Hell is the gradual one — the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts".
And then the putt back up the green - nominally the par putt - takes a sharp right-hand turn and buggers off back down another, slightly softer, slope.
The first hole was a par 3, with a soft downward slope, which gave us a little extra distance on shots otherwise hindered by the wet conditions.
There're two ways down to the river: the hard dirt path on the other side of the pine, where the grownups go, or straight down the soft, crumbly slope.
Although the trail was never particularly steep, the soft shale sloped gradually on the downhill side, perfect for twisting your ankles.
Her backyard looks out at the northwest end of the cemetery, yielding views of soft grassy slopes, oaks, willows and the noisy comings and goings of geese.
bostonusa.com Martian29 Raguenès Plage, Névez, Brittany Tucked away down country lanes between Concarneau and Pont-Aven, this is a really lovely beach, and ideal for children with its soft sand sloping gently into the sea.
Slope cutting for road construction on the soft-hard slope structure (porous and shallow soil layer mantling the hard basalt layer) should be considered very carefully.
