Sentence examples for rocky high from inspiring English sources

The valley has areas of rocky high desert, conifer forests, vernal pools, and marshlands and receives spring moisture from snow melt falling from the Sierran peaks above.

You'll climb 100 metres in rocky high mountain landscape surrounded by glaciers before descending 1,300 metres (and 33 miles) to sea (or fjord) level, past waterfalls, through forested valleys and fjord farm landscapes to the town of Flåm.

Vertical, rocky, high-energy shorelines make up most of the region's crenellated coastlines.

Spain THE ROUTE The northwest region of Asturias encompasses the rocky highs and river valleys of the Cantabrian Mountains and lush pastures and lakes protected by Somiedo Natural Park.

At any particular time, the channel of the stream might consist of quiet-water pools separated by rocky, high-energy zones called riffles.

In its present rocky, high-hill stronghold, this thin-skinned, American-rootstock-resistant grape rewards patient growers with one of the country's most unique wines: exuberant rose, lavender, allspice, savory aromas for which the word perfume is not poetic license.

It wasn't my description of the deaths of soldiers that upset them, but my noting that the most common disabling injury on that base was a sprained ankle -- the result of jogging in the rocky high-desert terrain.

In these rocky, high-energy, shoreline locations, which form the dominant habitat type along much of the LCR, cryptophthalmic individuals have been collected in sympatry with numerous non-cryptophthalmic taxa.

The trail got rockier higher up, and I hiked the last couple of thousand feet to Glen Pass.

A Peruvian child strides across a rocky field high in the Andes.

Built into the rocky cliffs high above the beach is the equally secluded, treehouse-like Vertigo Bar, which opened three years ago.