If he were to take the gully up to where it joined a mesh of shallow ruts, swing left to hit that crevasse, ease himself along until he reached a jutting mass of stone and then edge right again, he shouldn't have much difficulty in making his way to the top.

It can also be used to fill shallow ruts and similar depressions.

And to the right of Blaze the green turf lay undisturbed, very slightly irregular, as the whole area was, a reticulation of tiny-leaved plants, minuscule flowers, netted into the grass, a small pit here filled with pine needles, a shallow rut there with a sandy bottom.

"It was all hard packed, with shallow ruts from what I believe were the trucks that brought the men here to be killed."

The horses left deep tracks, but the sleds made only shallow ruts that the falling snow began to bury immediately.

The stranger was alone, waiting atop a hardy desert oeikani, in the center of the wide, shallow rut through which the wagons were travelling.

Keeping his distance, he followed her tracks through the shallow, snow-filled ruts.

It also can be used to fill shallow ruts where the asphalt is not broken.

As we traveled down another of the unending gentle hills, the packed red road-clay merged, over a kay or so, into a packed sand-and-pebbles surface frozen into shallow ruts.

Then Les turned the car onto a trail of flat rocks and pine needles, the woods dense on both sides of us, and he drove slowly and we rocked in and out of shallow ruts in the ground.