It doesn’t matter how you say it. When I describe a short hike with a great view on top, I might say that you get a good bang for your buck there.
In Kim Nilsen’s book “50 Hikes North of the White Mountains,” he says of the Devil’s Slide in Stark: “In none of the other pages of this guidebook will you find so much dramatic turf for so little effort.”
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