talus
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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
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
What impresses is an improbable blend of escarpments, ravines, windblown crags and banks of talus, all on a plateau that rises abruptly from the surrounding countryside.
From Washington Post
Among these peaks, millennia of falling boulders have lodged in narrow canyons, creating underground spaces known as talus caves.
From Los Angeles Times
More than once, my front tire drifts into the talus, and I have to snap back to alertness to avoid catapulting down the scree.
From Washington Post
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