The boots are light (50 ounces), completely waterproof (our feet stayed dry even after soaking in muskeg for 12 hours at a time), and. From Wordnik.com. [SOG HUNTER REVOLVER] Reference
Walking in muskeg or tundra is a nightmare!. From Wordnik.com. [If you were dropped out of a helicopter in the center of Alaska and could only bring three items besides clothing what would the] Reference
How wide the muskeg is one cannot say. From Wordnik.com. [Janey Canuck in the West] Reference
A muskeg berry is a bit of seed enclosed in a bit of water. From Wordnik.com. [LOVE OF LIFE] Reference
Open pit mining destroys the Boreal forest of Canada and muskeg. From Wordnik.com. [Bob Dinneen: When It Comes to Land Use Change -- Look at Oil] Reference
They can run across muskeg that a human can barely cross at all. From Wordnik.com. [Moose in Your Face] Reference
He bore away to the left, stopping now and again to eat muskeg berries. From Wordnik.com. [LOVE OF LIFE] Reference
I don't plan on using it in Alaskan muskeg or snow over a 12 or 18 inches deep. From Wordnik.com. [F&S Guide to Truck Wheels] Reference
A combination of severe climate, muskeg and mountains strictly limits agriculture. From Wordnik.com. [Regional Prospects and Problems in Western Canada] Reference
I have dropped that thing in the muskeg and bogs of Alaska and it still works great. From Wordnik.com. [Do you name your guns?] Reference
When the piling-up jarring told that another pair of wheels were in the muskeg and the train came to. From Wordnik.com. [On the Edge of the Arctic or, An Aeroplane in Snowland] Reference
The James Bay area in summer was mired down in muskeg, with many lakes and surprisingly large streams. From Wordnik.com. [Defence and the North] Reference
Often he stooped and picked pale muskeg berries, put them into his mouth, and chewed and swallowed them. From Wordnik.com. [LOVE OF LIFE] Reference
He was compelled to pause for frequent rests, when he attacked the muskeg berries and rush-grass patches. From Wordnik.com. [LOVE OF LIFE] Reference
Except for pale muskeg berries, "a bit of seed enclosed in a bit of water," he has not eaten in two days. From Wordnik.com. [“I, in the course of making my living by turning journalism into literature. . .”] Reference
He bails small pools of water in the muskeg for minnows, eats ptarmigan chicks raw, is increasingly hunger-mad. From Wordnik.com. [“I, in the course of making my living by turning journalism into literature. . .”] Reference
To traverse the hitherto impassable muskeg, the "muskeg buggy" and other amphibious vehicles are now being tried out. From Wordnik.com. [Defence and the North] Reference
Dawson, the center of all this itinerant humanity, grew from a struggling camp on a frozen muskeg to a teeming Babylon. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Jim] Reference
Miles of impenetrable forest and muskeg (swamp) bar access from the scattered, isolated beach residents from the shuttle. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » In Defense of Stimulus Waste] Reference
After we'd caught enough of them, we made a long hike across the muskeg meadows and climbed on the ice of an ancient glacier. From Wordnik.com. [Alaska Salmon Fishing on 25 Dollars a Day] Reference
He felt his way through the wet snow to the watery muskeg berries, and went by feel as he pulled up the rush-grass by the roots. From Wordnik.com. [LOVE OF LIFE] Reference
The muskeg berries did not allay this gnawing, while they made his tongue and the roof of his mouth sore with their irritating bite. From Wordnik.com. [LOVE OF LIFE] Reference
It was because it refused to die that he still ate muskeg berries and minnows, drank his hot water, and kept a wary eye on the sick wolf. From Wordnik.com. [LOVE OF LIFE] Reference
There is also extensive muskeg in the west and north of the park, an association of black spruce, sphagnum moss and northern heath plants. From Wordnik.com. [Wood Buffalo National Park, Canada] Reference
Not to mention the fact that it used to be muskeg and now it's Syncrude's version of boreal forest with goddam bike paths going through it. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
Drain the water off a muskeg, and it soon gets dry. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Alaskans in the Rockies] Reference
We certainly had muskeg enough yesterday and the day before. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Alaskans in the Rockies] Reference
To my notion, this looks considerable like a muskeg just on ahead of us. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Alaskans in the Rockies] Reference
To the rear was impassable muskeg -- quaking moss above water-soaked bog. From Wordnik.com. [Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom] Reference
"Well, what is a muskeg, anyhow," asked Jesse, "unless it's just a mud-hole?". From Wordnik.com. [The Young Alaskans in the Rockies] Reference
"You know the muskeg where the creek spreads out, about fourteen miles north?". From Wordnik.com. [Prescott of Saskatchewan] Reference
He declares the jacket isn't Jernyngham's; he won't allow the man can be in the muskeg. From Wordnik.com. [Prescott of Saskatchewan] Reference
None the less, here is the muskeg, and here we are with our horses, and we must get across. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Alaskans in the Rockies] Reference
After a while they struck into a well-beaten track which had been graded where it crossed a muskeg. From Wordnik.com. [Prescott of Saskatchewan] Reference
There were glades and meadows, carpeted with rich grass patterned with flowers, and sometimes the road bordered a spongy, dry muskeg. From Wordnik.com. [The Huntress] Reference
It is hunting season again but my 3-year old son is not going to be heading out into the muskeg this year to bring home the venison. From Wordnik.com. Reference
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