It is unknown if riders tried crossing the Sierra Nevada in winter, but they certainly crossed central Nevada.

The first use was by Sierra Leone in 1964, and the United States tried it on a 1974 Christmas stamp, although the experiment was judged a failure and not repeated for many years.

For its efforts to be a national leader in campus sustainability, ASU was named one of the top 20 " cool schools " by the Sierra Club, was named to the " Green Honor Roll " by the Princeton Review, and earned an " A -" grade on the 2010 College Sustainability Report Card.

Other such breast mountains are Mount Elgon on the Uganda-Kenya border, Beinn Chìochan and the Maiden Paps in Scotland, the " Bundok ng Susong Dalaga " ( Maiden's breast mountains ) in Talim Island, Philippines, the twin hills known as the Paps of Anu ( Dá Chích Anann or the breasts of Anu ), near Killarney in Ireland, the 2, 086 m high Tetica de Bacares or " La Tetica " in the Sierra de Los Filabres, Spain, and Khao Nom Sao in Thailand, Cerro Las Tetas in Puerto Rico and the Breasts of Aphrodite in Mykonos, among many others.

An economic dependence on commodities, such as diamond s being mined by these children in Sierra Leone, is correlated with an increased risk of civil war.

The majority of the population of the town lives in Eagle Valley, on the eastern edge of the Carson Range, a branch of the Sierra Nevada.

Cismontane chaparral (" this side of the mountain ") refers to a chaparral ecosystem in the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub Biome in California, growing on the western ( and coastal ) sides of large mountain range systems, such as: western slopes of the Sierra Nevada in the San Joaquin Valley foothills, western slopes of the Peninsular Ranges and California Coast Ranges, and south-southwest slopes of the Transverse Ranges in the Central Coast and Southern California regions.

Fire suppression impacts on postfire recovery of Sierra Nevada chaparral shrublands.

The highest mountains of the West Indies are in this range: Pico Duarte, 3, 098 m, and others above 3, 000 m. Near the center of the island, this range turns southward and is called Sierra de Ocoa, finishing near the city of Azua de Compostela, on the Caribbean coast.

Bored with administering Central America, Alvarado had set sail for the south without the crown's authorization, landed on the Ecuadorian coast, and marched inland to the Sierra.

Pines and cedars are planted in the region of the Sierra, walnuts and rosemary, and balsa wood, on Guayas River Basin.

With the addition of Sierra Leone, Africa's first floorball nation, the IFF has at least one national association on each continent of the world, with the exception of Antarctica.

He made multiple stops on his way toward the tip of Africa, eventually rounded the Cape of Good Hope, and reached Sierra Leone by 22 July 1580.

Two Guinean MiGs made a low flyover of Freetown and Toure placed the Guinean military on alert ' because of the serious troubles affecting the fraternal peoples of Sierra Leone.

Sierra Casady, of the freak-folk group CocoRosie plays harp on several of their songs.

After brief stops in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and the Ivory Coast, he arrived in the Gold Coast on 10 December 1947.

The total length of Liberia's land borders is: with Sierra Leone on the northwest, with Guinea to the north, and with Côte d ' Ivoire.

The First Liberian Civil War, instigated by Charles Taylor and the National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( NPFL ) on December 24, 1989, eventually spread to neighboring Sierra Leone in 1991 when dissidents of the Revolutionary United Front ( RUF ), led by Foday Sankoh, began using Liberia as a staging ground for NPFL backed military assaults on border towns in Sierra Leone.

Areas south of the Great Basin are located within the Mojave Desert, while Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada mountains lie on the western edge.

Most rain falls on the lee side ( east and northeast slopes ) of the Sierra Nevada.

Smaller army forces have been previously sent on UN and ECOWAS deployments in the former Yugoslavia, Angola, Rwanda, Somalia, and Sierra Leone.

Obsidian flows which may be hiked on are found within the calderas of Newberry Volcano and Medicine Lake Volcano in the Cascade Range of western North America, and at Inyo Craters east of the Sierra Nevada in California.

B. Traven, author of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, wrote that the Inca Virococha, walked away on the top of the sea and vanished.

They were to have an important impact on the peoples of Sierra Leone because they increased trade and also produced secondary population movements into Sierra Leone.

Cannibalism has been reported in several recent African conflicts, including the Second Congo War, and the civil wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone.

The Inca civilization expansion northward from modern-day Peru during the late 15th century met with fierce resistance by several Ecuadorian tribes, particularly the Cañari, in the region around modern-day Cuenca ; the Cara in the Sierra north of Quito along with the Quitu, occupants of the site of the modern capital, with whom they had formed the Kingdom of Quito.

Sierra Leone is party to several environmental agreements:

There are a number of systems of transport in Sierra Leone, a country in West Africa, which possess road, rail, air and water infrastructure, including a network of highways and several airports.

The series has remained popular with Sierra fans, and several fan sites are still active and maintain a community dedicated to the games.

In the early 1850s, several treaties were signed between the U. S. government and the Native Americans involving their relocation onto a reservation in the Sierra foothills ; this promise was broken, of course.

In Colombia's Eastern Sierra, the Chibchas were composed of several tribes who spoke the same language ( Chibchan ).

On February 22, 1999, Sierra announced a major reorganization of the company, resulting in the shutdown of several of their development studios, cutbacks on others and the relocation of key projects, and employees from those studios to Bellevue.

Creative licenses from other Vivendi divisions and from companies partnered with Vivendi Universal Games were granted to Sierra, and copyright of several notable intellectual properties such as Crash Bandicoot, Spyro the Dragon, 50 Cent: Bulletproof and Scarface went to Sierra.

Wolof of Senegal and several of the Fula languages are the most populous Atlantic languages, with several million speakers each ; other significant members include Serer and the Jola dialect cluster of Senegal and Temne in Sierra Leone.

Snow is not a common sight on the streets of Sierra Vista though some years the city can receive several inches of snow and other years it will receive none.

Lake Tahoe is the youngest of several extensional basins of the Walker Lane deformation zone that accommodates nearly 12 mm / yr of dextral shear between the Sierra Nevada-Great Valley Block and North America .< ref >

There are several games that are patterned after the war: the Games Workshop 2005 Summer Online Campaign, for The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game ; a board game developed by Nexus Editrice and published in the US by Fantasy Flight Games called War of the Ring ( board game ); a board and counter wargame called War of the Rings published by SPI in 1977 ; The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring, a real-time strategy computer game published by Sierra Entertainment in 2003 ; and the Battle for Middle-earth series of real-time strategy games published by Electronic Arts in 2004 and 2006.

It was later in the Sierra's life that the styling began to pay off ; ten years after its introduction, the Sierra's styling was not nearly as outdated as its contemporaries, even though all major competitors were newer designs, although the Sierra had been tweaked on several occasions.

The 1. 6 Kent continued almost unchanged during the 9 year life of the Sierra / Sapphire, while the 2. 0 Cologne was revised several times, being fitted to the Sierra 2. 0 GL and GLE and later to the stripped down Sierra 2. 0 LX and Sapphire 2. 0 GL and GLE models.

SWAT founder Daryl F. Gates was named to take over the Police Quest series while Walls-along with several former Sierra employees-would go on to design Blue Force, an adventure game similar to the Police Quest series.

The park has expanded several times over the decades to its present size ; one of the most recent expansions occurred in 1978, when grassroots efforts, spearheaded by the Sierra Club, fought off attempts by the Walt Disney Corporation to purchase a high-alpine former mining site south of the park for use as a ski resort.

The area has several private schools, including Sierra Canyon, Chatsworth Hills Academy, Chaminade College Preparatory Middle School, and St. John Eudes Elementary and Middle School.

* Gileño ( also Apaches de Gila, Apaches de Xila, Apaches de la Sierra de Gila, Xileños, Gilenas, Gilans, Gilanians, Gila Apache, Gilleños ) was used to refer to several different Apachean and non-Apachean groups at different times.