Nw Gardens: Take slippery-slope yards one step at a time. By MARTY WINGATE, SPECIAL TO THE P-I June 30, 2006. ... Steffen defines a gentle slope as "one that I can get up and down easily"; ...

A steep slope will have a shorter course distance but be harder to run up. A gentle slope will be easier to run up but cover a longer total distance. For a given finishing time, what’s the sweet ...

Everyplace else has at least one gentle ultra-beginner slope and meandering green-circle trails for newly minted novices, one step up from beginners, can begin to explore the mountain.

The current men’s record is 29:42, set on a course in Switzerland that is 1,920 meters long with an average slope of 27.5 degrees; the women’s record is 36:04.

The 672-square-metre house is mostly planned over one storey, but the natural slope of the site allowed I/O Architects to lift up one end of the floorplate and slot a generously-sized garage ...