Several aircraft have damaged their landing gear on the rutted tarmac.
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The cost is felt in crowded classrooms and on rutted roads.
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It had been rutted parkland before — hostile terrain for a scooter.
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And it has obstacles, including rutted streets through an industrial area.
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Drive SLOW, the road is rutted and there are no guard rails.
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We paused before lurching down the rutted mud road where his supplier lived.
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Weaving through Port-au-Prince, we took rutted gravel roads to avoid a demonstration.
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The rutted and sandy, 12-mile road to the beach had already drained us.
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The rain picked up, and water ran over the rock scrambles and rutted streambeds.
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The traffic jams and rutted roads of recent years have gone, replaced by gleaming tarmac.
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Northern Syria (CNN)The rutted road stretches into the distance across the plains of Hasakah.
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They are levelling the rutted surface so that it can be paved over with concrete.
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But there have been some close calls on rutted highways with trucks and drunken drivers.
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On rutted trails or gravel roads, the boxy Benz soaks up abuse at all speeds.
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In those days, Vilakazi Street, where Mr. Mandela lived, was a rutted dirt track lacking electricity.
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But the mountain itself is magnificent: rough and rutted and craggy, like an ancient crocodile's back.
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A trip that used to take an hour can now take four on rutted, broken roads.
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Though the vista is spectacular, the path below it is steep, narrow and often rutted with moguls.
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He led the way through the forest, and I followed, tripping over roots in the rutted path.
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Former fighters cook meals and drive visitors two hours by rutted road from the nearest large town.
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Fragile flowers are no good either, because they will get shaken up on his rutted dirt roads.
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The capital, Terekeka town, is a three-hour drive from Juba along a deeply rutted dirt road.
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They are battery-powered, do 40 scans per charge, and can survive bouncing along rutted dirt roads.
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I hopped in back and we rolled out onto the open plains on a rutted dirt road.
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As we walked back along the rutted dirt track toward the subway, he narrated the encounter for me.
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The compression here—an abrupt transition to flatter, rutted terrain—creates a force of more than three g's.
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Men walked the rutted trails, their faces obscured by black balaclavas, and pistols tucked into their waist bands.
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We clamber into his pickup truck and bounce up an icy and rutted track to his family's trailer.
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Those who remained could hear the familiar sound as the police car bumped away down the rutted dirt road.
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Some of the journey was on rutted dirt roads, up and down forested mountainsides in a cloud of dust.
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Year after year, comeApril, rutted arteries headline the evening news, as if anythingcould halt cars and trucks, or time.
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Like most of her neighbors, she illegally taps into the power lines that run along the rutted dirt streets.
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They bounce down the rutted road as the storm churns ahead of them, drawing up twisting ropes of dust.
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When it rains, the rutted streets flood; when fighting in the north cuts power lines, the streets go dark.
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It's no Jeep Wrangler, but moderate snow, deeply rutted forest service roads and muddy stretches are a piece of cake.
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We fetishize turnips with stems still attached, twists of carrot ending in long wispy threads, cucumbers with rutted, pitted surfaces.
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From her front door, I surveyed the dirt streets rutted with muddy water, an upturned wagon languishing in the road.
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The alternative is a rutted dirt road so extravagantly potholed and seasonally impassable that it is mostly, and sensibly, avoided.
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Lately, though, it has acquired another landmark: the "road of death", a rutted highway that slices south-west into the desert.
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They word solid, handmade boots into the fields, trudging through dry grass and mud, over rutted country roads and through barnyards.
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The glaciers' rutted crevasses, or large cracks, formed as the ice flows toward the coast, can be seen in the foreground.
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If you have a shred of allergy, this cabin closes up your throat when you're halfway up Joyce's steep, rutted road.
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At the end of a long, deeply rutted road we came upon a dusty village in the midst of a celebration.
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The compound where he was staying was at the end of a rutted lane bordered by wheat fields and rice paddies.
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Each truck transports 216 hives over dirt roads that, thanks to this season's rain, were deeply rutted and thick with mud.
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That money is helping to build power lines to Goma along an inhospitable dirt road, which is rutted with volcanic rock.
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He loped down a rutted road between pens of sheep barely stirring and rez dogs that yapped and bolted after him.
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Parents watched cars bounce along rutted roads for a long while before the agents arrived and asked if they had children.
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I turn west onto a rutted dirt road toward Prospect Bluff, also known as Fort Gadsden, Negro Fort and British Fort.
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Czerwonka drives me and another journalist along rutted dirt road to the airdrop site where the drones practice releasing their parachuted packages.
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So young men and women, as they came of age, tended to walk out of the pueblo on the thin, rutted road.
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Within days, Pablo settled his grandfather's estate, returned the milkman's bicycle, and walked out of the pueblo on the thin, rutted road.
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Each book centers on a motherless girl sent to live with her aunt, setting them on rough, rutted paths toward self-discovery.
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Because of the heavy equipment involved, the roads to the sites are rutted and, when it rains, nearly impassable because of mud.
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At its entrance, where ragged minibuses push their way through rutted red mud, stalls sell piles of pillows, plastic toys, cutlery and soap.
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At its entrance, where ragged minibuses splash their way through rutted red mud, stalls sell piles of pillows, plastic toys, cutlery and soap.
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"I'm here with my friend, Pete Buttigieg, who's the mayor here," Zuckerberg said as the Facebook Live video rattled along the rutted Indiana roads.
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A FEW miles down a rutted dirt road, and many more from the nearest town, a small farmhouse stands surrounded by dense green bush.
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The telephone lines eventually disappear as do the satellite dishes and, within hours, the team from Nautilus Minerals is on a rutted, dirt road.
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GHIOR, Bangladesh (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Along the rutted village roads of this sub-district in central Bangladesh, one plant stands out: young palm trees.
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We chatted with a father and son building a shade structure out of pallets, and picked up a hitchhiker on a hot, rutted road.
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For the first mile, I slalomed between competitors as we navigated a rutted dirt road pocked with divots large enough to roll an ankle.
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On the rutted, dirt road in front of his father's house, a pair of giant posters lauding the hero-son adorn the courtyard wall.
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Back in a flood zone near the dam, a five-hour drive from the shelter on rutted roads, the waters were beginning to recede.
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The streets are narrow and rutted, with drains cut through the middle, and the houses cluster close together, as if to keep out strangers.
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We join Cooper and his family at a God's Grace Fellowship church on a rutted dirt road two miles north of the general store.
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Many villages were connected to the rest of the country by rutted dirt roads and a rickety railway erected by the British a century ago.
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Not "Dutch Interior," Cy Twombly's big beautiful mostly handwritten painting from 1962; not Helen Frankenthaler's bold "Western Dream" (1957); and not the big rutted Shiraga.
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The Ring Road, a 68-mile belt of rutted tarmac, is Cairo's suburban speedway, eight lanes of churning traffic with a hint of Mad Max.
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To reach Maizullah's checkpoint, I'd accompanied the district governor in a convoy up a rutted dirt road that paralleled a river flowing swiftly with snowmelt.
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Climbing up a steep, rock-rutted trail, we stopped to inspect large stone tombs with curved lids and posed for group pictures against ancient crumbling walls.
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I slide my hands down his back, all along his spine, rutted with bone like mud ridges in a dry field, to the audacious swell below.
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Willets Point United, a group composed mainly of the auto body shop owners who have long plied their trade on Willets's rutted streets, celebrated the decision.
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He has made it clear he has little or no intention of fulfilling his promise to repair the nation's rutted roads, aging railways or dilapidated airports.
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Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz and others photographed what had once been purple mountains' majesty — mountains now more likely to tower above rutted lanes and ticky-tacky houses.
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Driving on the rutted dirt road through the woods along the San Diego river, we passed construction sites and heard the distant buzz of a chain saw.
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One evening in February, after the arrests of Arcentales and Wladmir, I sat with Mendoza under a pomegranate tree in the mud-rutted driveway outside Mendoza's house.
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Andrew M. Cuomo and New York's largest Native American tribe, it is the three miles of cracked, rutted and completely rotten highway running through this lakeside reservation.
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Rise and Fall introduces a lot of cool ideas and possibilities to Civilization VI, but leaves them to the side of the rutted roads we've traveled so often.
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The Marine Park field is a rutted and crowded meadow that tilts decidedly toward the south and the marshes; batted grounders in that direction bounce a long distance.
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But the thought of returning the way I had come — wading a murky creek and huffing up a rutted cow path choked with wood ticks — was more depressing.
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We continued for four more hours in another shared taxi, switchbacking up a rutted road, crossing the 245,217-foot Razdan Pass, and descending deep into the Gurez Valley.
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And as you drive through it, bumping over roads so deeply rutted you feel like a human castanet, you realize you've never been so happy in your life.
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You can find a spot with reception, the host points out, down the rutted dirt road, which, it's also crucial to note, can only be navigated by an SUV.
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Then you must ford a stream and drive, for several minutes, on a rutted, rocky pathway until you reach a modest turf-roofed farmhouse that was built in 1741.
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IONA, Nova Scotia — Squatting on a rutted dirt road on the slope of Creignish Mountain, Ashley MacIsaac unpacked a tawny fiddle dusted white across the top with piney rosin.
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On a recent evening, he visits Buzuta village, a scattering of mudwall huts on a rutted dirt road in western Rwanda, not far from the shore of Lake Kivu.
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"She's like a really old Jeep, making its way slowly through a rutted field," said Anand Menon, a professor of European politics and foreign affairs at King's College London.
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Down here, along the rutted stone path leading to the stairs, we watched as a construction crane lifted a block onto the wall of one of the outer chambers.
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I followed a rutted dirt road for a couple of miles through the forest, arriving at a simple shingled cottage, where Brown lives with Faerthen Felix, the station's assistant manager.
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Foreigners who snipe at America's late-Brezhnev-era airports, smelly subways and rutted roads should, as the Proclaimers sang, take a look up the rail tracks from Miami to Canada.
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Two armed police reservists live in Choro's community, but the nearest police station is more than 20 km away — more than an hour by car across the rutted, trackless land.
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To avoid roadside bombs, a pesh merga column drove off the main highway, headed south on a rutted, undulating dirt road, and it then rumbled west across a dusty field.
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With the turtle in a large box in the back of his jeep, Mr. Kiponda drove out of the village on muddy roads rutted by the country's torrential spring rains.
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In her area, Jalapa, a region of rippled hills, rutted roads and a cowboy culture, men go around on horseback with holstered pistols, their faces shaded by wide-brimmed hats.
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In her area, Jalapa, a region of rippled hills, rutted roads and a cowboy culture, men go around on horseback with holstered pistols, their faces shaded by wide-brimmed hats.
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Initial prototypes of TerraSentia lacked a proper suspension system, so the robot jumped into the air and disrupted the video streams whenever researchers set it loose in a deeply rutted field.
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While swerving down a particularly rutted highway in New York, the economist in me began to wonder, what will happen to the roads as fewer and fewer cars run on gasoline?
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I want to be the blade striking knotted brown, to kiss the nape of any hunger; American beautyberry or rutted cane, warm branch of man pinning me here in mute study.
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The 24-year-old trailed favorites Alexis Pinturault and Marcel Hirscher after the first run but carved his way down the rutted course in spectacular style to win by 0.20 seconds.
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He scratched out a living while pushing his agenda on the Council: finding the money to fix the town's rutted roads, demolishing vacant homes, pushing for a mayoral system of government.
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And yet the trade-off is rarely as simple as theory predicts, because farmers connected to markets by rutted roads are often at the mercy of a small number of middlemen.
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Residents say the Houthis have repeatedly shelled hospitals and civilian areas, while their network of checkpoints around the city mean locals must smuggle in cooking gas and bread through rutted mountain passes.
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The cobble-stoned road from the train station to Piazza Venezia, in the heart of the city, is rutted, and taxi drivers say bobbling tourists laugh as if on an amusement ride.
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Skiers must maintain balance over their skis as they glide over what may be a rough or rutted surface or when they hit a patch of snow that is softer and slower.
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"We are going seven days a week," Mr. Butler said one recent afternoon at his cattle ranch here, watching as the trucks navigated a rutted pathway he calls his private toll road.
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KARTIKE, Nepal — When Peter Dalglish, a lauded humanitarian worker, built a sleek cabin near a Nepalese village of rutted roads and hills ribbed with rice paddies, locals knew virtually nothing about him.
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Roth's landscape is pitted and rutted where people have dug in their hooves and refused to budge, whatever the cost may be; and in "Indignation" the cost could scarcely be more severe.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Kafr Aqab is no one's dream destination: the overcrowded neighborhood separated from adjacent East Jerusalem by Israel's barrier in the occupied West Bank is notorious for rutted roads, drugs and violence.
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Most of my mind was focused on working in concert with my body, but the part that wasn't felt oddly free, like the neurons were having a holiday from their familiar, rutted pathways.
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No voyeuristic detachment is allowed in this "Carmen Jones," which has been electrically choreographed by Bill T. Jones; the audience feels what the characters feel, on the rutted road to a harrowing catharsis.
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Two-hundred delegates from FARC units around the country gathered at the Yari site, five hours by rutted road from the nearest provincial town, to review the accord and discuss re-organization in peacetime.
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It's kind of a different vibe in the Mojave where the dust blows over the rutted roads than in Scottsdale or Palm Springs where it's rich people golfing and eating steak at strip malls.
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During butterfly season, the main rutted track into the forest from Yangambi village becomes a commuter artery, everyone in search of something: children collecting edible caterpillars, women foraging for greens, men hunting for bushmeat.
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I took a quick ride in downtown San Francisco on the "smart" scooter and most noticeably the big, thick wheels made going over a curb or rutted SF street not as harrowing of an experience.
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Sunshine Woman thought the truth of it was he didn't want his woman to have to step down into the street, as it was rutted with puddles because there had been bad rains and flooding.
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For me, all it took was one agonizing 14-hour bus ride along the rutted backroads of rural Mexico while suffering from a raging bladder infection to change my pre-trip planning and packing strategy.
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On the far side of Postwick, a throwback English village with a flint church and a cricket pitch, you follow a heavily rutted track down to the river Yare, emerging opposite the Ferry House pub.
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He and Jorge were out roaming between villages during Day of the Dead, and Jorge had driven our rusty 1996 Range Rover down all manner of rutted, goat-crowded roads to get to this field.
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In 1900 the horse remained the primary means of travel, and fewer than 14,000 automobiles — which most people viewed as playthings of the rich — bumped along the nation's rutted roads; by 1920 there were nine million.
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Thandazile Soni, the first Rafiki in Chicago, now lives in a wooden shack on a former sugar cane field southwest of Durban, down a rutted dirt path that descends as the houses become ever more ramshackle.
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The change in the temperature led to harder, more favorable snow, and the leaders charged down the racecourse with a kind of aggressiveness that had been difficult to muster on the softer, more rutted morning snow.
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Talk of a level playing field, even metaphorically, sits ill with a sport whose stars race down steep and icy pistes, over bumps and jumps and through the tight twists and turns of a rutted slalom slope.
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With steps freshened by wearing a man's cast-off shoes, I follow the rain-rutted road as far as the fishing boats turned upside down on the soggy bank, their oars secured elsewhere to provide against thieves.
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Ms. Vieira feared he would stop breathing, but couldn't get to a hospital with doctors on duty from her downtrodden neighborhood at that late hour, when rats scurry on the rutted roads but no buses were running.
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LOS PARGOS, Costa Rica — Impassable in spots during much of the rainy season, the dirt road to this village on the northern Pacific Coast of Costa Rica is a rutted, dust-spewing monster during the dry months.
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The other remaining legal option is a flight to Havana and then a road trip that could last as much as eight to more than 12 hours over rutted, unsafe roads, in the case of Cuba's eastern cities.
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One hot and cloudless afternoon this summer, I climbed into the cab of Tim Sullivan's pickup truck, and together we bumped along a rutted dirt road at the edge of one of his fields, examining the soybean crops.
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So, on this particular day, when a cluster of houses suddenly appeared just after the crest of a little hill, right there by the highway, I turned onto the rutted side road, stopped the car and got out.
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It is the drama as seen from the vantage point of the hunted, the police and dogs always just one step behind, hopscotching from rural roads to rutted mountainsides, dragging themselves through swamps and up and down steep inclines.
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With their lights off, the vehicles made two attempts to cross the web of rutted, rocky dirt roads and reach gaps in the fence, but they turned back because spotters saw Israeli Army Humvees converging on the same areas.
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Two hours on — the last half of it on a rutted, severely wash-boarded dirt road — I spied Fajada Butte, the towering landform at the head of a long, shallow sandstone canyon called Chaco, now the Chaco Culture National Historical Park.
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The next day, Mikaela, in second place after the first run, hit a rutted, shadowy patch of snow on the steep pitch near the top of her second run, nearly blew out of the course, recovered, and finished a disappointing fifth.
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Rain, poor visibility and a rutted course proved too much for most of the skiers in the morning run, leaving the battle for gold between the fastest six who were separated by only 0.56 seconds heading into the decisive action.
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Raul Mendoza — a four-decade-long coaching force on the Navajo reservation, married to a Navajo woman yet not Navajo himself, respected although perhaps not beloved — commanded the front seat and stared impassively through dark sunglasses at the rutted road.
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To wander the muddy sloughs and rutted holloways of the Eavises' farm is to find yourself psychotropically transported to a wonderless land, in which a quarter of a million largely middle-class and white Britons have gone berserk raiding the dressing-up box.
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CreditCreditRauff Hakeem, via Storyful MEDAMAHANUWARA, Sri Lanka — Past the end of a remote mountain road, down a rutted dirt track, in a concrete house that lacked running water but bristled with smartphones, 20173 members of an extended family were glued to Facebook.
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Quezon City, the Philippines (CNN)It's monsoon season in the Philippines and in a ramshackle neighborhood in Quezon City, near Manila, a sudden downpour has left gray puddles in the rutted streets and fat, dirty drops of rainwater steadily dripping from corrugated metal roofs.
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The disabled-parking permit dangling from the rearview mirror hinted of the father's middle-age worries, but no matter how bad things got, he knew that he could always confide in this beautiful man-child beside him, sleeping now to the rutted-road rhythms.
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Other foreign investors and nations, however, would be wise to consider what happened in the area around Kyaukphyu — a poor town of dilapidated wooden houses and deeply rutted roads in desperately poor Rakhine State, on Myanmar's western coast — before participating in the huge venture.
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The next morning, Ms. Regan had to drive back out 25 miles to pick up a reporter and photographer at a minimart near the edge of Lake Michigan because the rain hadn't stopped and the roads were too rutted for a city car to navigate.
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We visited other islands, too, like Kauai, where we waded into the Pacific at Polihale Beach, a remote 17-mile stretch of white sand at the end of the long, rutted dirt road that seems as far away as you can get from anywhere.
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Circumstances and cultural and personal streets divided Miss Jones from both her freedom and her bane of rutted 'smallness' of a wild spirit living confined in a struggling California blue-collar town — in a way miles from nowhere yet with a clutch of family and friends.
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During the exercise, a four-man American civil-affairs team accompanied Burkinabe Army officers who rumbled over dusty, rutted dirt roads to visit the village of Bargo, bringing school supplies, soccer balls and good will from a government that still struggles to connect with its citizenry.
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There, on an early afternoon, the only sounds amid the second- and third-century temples and stone streets rutted by chariot wheels were bleating sheep and the wind blowing through olive trees — and my tour guide's ringing cellphone as the police called to check on us.
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The ones who were fished out of river or lake, found crumpled under crumpled papers in the parks, picked up in the horse-and-wagon alleys or slugged, for half a bottle of homemade wine, in the rutted tunnels that run between the advertising agencies and the banks.
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In a dark green house with plastic siding at the end of a long, rutted dirt track, Rangel Ipuana - a pütchipü'ü who is the patriarch of the Ipuana clan - says he wants to avoid conflict, but many of the returnees from Venezuela have forgotten the Wayuu way of life.
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The humanitarian, Peter Dalglish, who worked for decades as an advocate for children in impoverished corners of the world, was convicted in June of sexually assaulting two boys — ages 12 and 14 — last year in Kartike, a small Nepali village of rutted roads where he built a home.
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About 80% of Uganda's cotton is exported, but because its fields are far inland and the cotton has to travel over rutted roads past rapacious officials, the price these farmers receive is only 60-70% of the international benchmark for delivery to Asia, a lower share than goes to American farmers.
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ABU JAMAL, Sudan — At Sudan's eastern border, Lt. Samih Omar led two patrol cars slowly over the rutted desert, past a cow's carcass, before halting on the unmarked 2,20163-mile route that thousands of East Africans follow each year in trying to reach the Mediterranean, and then onward to Europe.
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Of course my dad delights in those rutted roads, in the coarse lip of a hand-hewn gourd and the singe of mezcal in the throat, in the mornings when the Mexican mountains are blue and blue and blue and the heart seems to bottom out into something so much larger than itself.
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The scattered cattle — a motley assemblage of breeds, including creamy Charolais, hump-shouldered Brahman and Simmental — coalesced into a driven herd, lumbering old bulls and skittering calves, lining up along a rutted dirt road and heading toward what is usually a narrow creek, but which was now more than 150 feet across.
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The days blurred together as we were sent on different assignments across the vast stretches of the forest: a horse camp with rutted-out trails, a swamplike lake that we used as our water and bathing source until it gave our supervisor, who had hitched along for a few days, a staph infection.
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Walk for a few minutes toward the southeast, past the vendors who line the derelict remains of Victoria Park and through the bustling streets of the city center, and you will find at the corner of two rutted dirt roads a house that looks more suited to the American South than to a steamy West African capital.
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A pair of Border Patrol agents took us to an amazing taqueria down a rutted lane outside Nogales; Gretchen Baer, an artist who helps young Mexicans paint the border wall, brought us to a bustling lounge in Bisbee, a former copper mining town that's now a hub of artists and hippies, where a band was playing.
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In its life, it refueled fighter jets patrolling the no-fly zone in Iraq before the 2003 invasion, and later it ferried troops and equipment into and out of the war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan, assignments that meant using rutted runways in dusty locales, according to records and photographs taken of it over the years.
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Folks from Appalachia have been called a lot of things and often by people who flitted through long enough to find a well-rutted road, film a child on a porch with a dirty face, snap a shot of coalminers leaving their shift, and then leave to tell the same story that drew them to the region in the first place.
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And yet one also observes, with every step, evidence of the human: The most popular (allegedly two-hour-long) path that cuts through the woods is a trail of scarred and rutted stones, slippery with moss so that your hands scrabble over wet tree roots for purchase, that was laid around 400 years ago, back when the forest was regularly plundered for timber to make shingles.
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But she recovered her form—metronomic tempo, skis parallel, body crouched, "knees to skis and hands in front," as the family mantra goes—and took on the meat of the course with calm determination, to the extent that calmness can be attributed to a woman punching aside heavy, rubbery poles at a rate of more than one a second, while pogoing from side to side in flat light down a wall of rutted ice.
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So after checking on Mad Max, the screech owl that flew freely in our house that summer, and sometimes picking a cicada for him from the pear tree out front, I set out into the endless summer evening, cutting through the developments next door, that creeping mold of selfsame houses and curving roads, crossed guardrails and culverts, dirt lots and light-industrial blight, past baseball fields where kids called to each other in the hot low sun and the dust rising from the infield was gold powder, all the way to the rutted path that traced our little river, a river of rocks that summer, which I would follow until it turned off into the nicer part of town.
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