It is 15 kilometers as the crow flies.

From then on I have been waiting for a new opportunity to enjoy them more intensively than through a view from the summit of an eight-thousander.

Although individual lodgepoles got killed almost instantly by fires, those same fires set the stage for more lodgepole stands

[H]e tossed back so many stiff highballs that he lost count. Feeling no pain, he proceeded to insult his host, lose control of his bladder, pass out on the floor, and was carried home.