The falls were named from an Algonquian word meaning "crest," because an early portage near the falls led over a rocky crest.
The park's name, meaning "great waterfall," refers to Stora Falls, the falls in the upper Lule River that plunge 130 feet (40 metres) over a rocky crest.
Below the rocky crest lies rolling country reminiscent of the Scottish Highlands, but replete with Western sagebrush, sunflowers and range grasse??
After climbing yet another rocky crest, the unit we were following found explosive belts ready for use, mortars and 100kg of nitrate for the manufacture of improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
Standing on the rocky and brushy crest of Kennesaw Mountain northwest of Marietta, you look down into a plain that stretches north to the horizon and south to the skyscrapered Tara of Atlanta.
Right, so there we were, cresting a rocky hill too steep for most people to clamber down, feet off the pedals, transmission shifted into first gear.
Below him was some of the most rugged terrain in the Northern Rockies -- the Gallatin Crest, a rocky, heavily timbered crazy quilt of creeks, steep slopes, and 10,000' mountain peaks.
Imagine this; sweating and exhausted, you finally crest the top of a rocky crag to see the path winding down to a deserted white beach, licked by turquoise swell, where you'll ease your blisters into the soft waves.
In a plate-sized depression often at the crest of a rocky knoll, the male inflates his chest like a bloated bullfrog, heaves his thorax, bobs his head, and releases a resonant boom like the sound made by blowing across the top of a large bottle.
As for the water-horses, or Ceffyl Dwr, plunging up and down with their backward hooves before storms off the Pembrokeshire coast, who's to say they were simply crests of foam seen from the rocky shore by anxious loved ones?
