talus
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Woods disclosed the surgery on Twitter and said it was a subtalar fusion procedure to address post-traumatic arthritis from when he broke his talus bone in February 2021.
From Washington Times • Apr. 19, 2023
The first four days featured very limited access points and the entire route required the “North Cascades’ finest bushwhacking,” glacier travel, snowfields, scree, boulder and talus fields, and scrambling.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 1, 2022
A little past the halfway mark, the trail leaves the forest and climbs a talus slope, offering views of Whitehorse Mountain and Three Fingers.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 31, 2022
The rocks in this area have quite varied colours, and those are reflected in the colours of the talus.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
It led through a vast talus field and then, a mile or so farther on, into woods.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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