bushwhack
Example Sentences
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Most ski tours in the Cascades start below tree line and involve a healthy amount of bushwhacking.
From Seattle Times
Currently, about a third of the trail is on roads and some portions in remote areas require bushwhacking with no trail.
From Seattle Times
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
Happy memories included working alongside his sister to bushwhack out planting spaces from the dark thicket of invasive autumn olive, multiflora rose and Oriental bittersweet, connecting those spaces with narrow tunnels hacked from the underbrush.
From Seattle Times
Hikers have bushwhacked off-trail into dense vegetation to reach the tree, making many social trails.
From Washington Post
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