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Write a detailed description of a foreboding scene outside a gorge with ironwood support beams and cliffs.
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This portion of the slippery path passes through a gorge between two cliffs, the ground underfoot almost sandy. Created when water washed away a layer of softer rock, the sides of the miniature canyon are streaked with flecks of minerals. Three ironwood support beams haphazardly span the gap high overhead, apparently placed here to ensure the sides don't come crumbling down.