'The black's dead! If we hustle we can get our grizzly!'"] The coulee, or ravine, hid them from the valley as they ascended.

Its bottom was covered with rock and shale.

The wounds Thor had received in the fight, unlike bullet wounds, had stopped bleeding after the first few minutes, and he left no telltale red spots behind.

The ravine took them to the first chaotic upheaval of rock halfway up the mountain, and here they were still more lost to view from below.
They stopped and drank at a pool formed by the melting snow on the peaks, and then went on.

Thor did not stop when they reached the ledge on which they had slept the previous night.