Tracy Kidder describes it as "beautiful, blue waters set among steep, arid mountains".

Beaver dams had helped to hold water in the arid mountains, providing for slow runoff.

It seemed an arid mountain, as dry as a chalk down in Sussex.

These arid unwelcoming mountains have been a geographic buffer to cultural and political dominance from neighboring empires.

They were then trucked inland into the arid rocky mountains and canyons of northern Eritrea.

It is surrounded by tall, arid mountains and deserts.

By 1984, though, Shining Path was already extending its influence beyond the arid mountains of Ayacucho.

Abruptly, I decided to head south for the arid mountains of New Mexico, over which the weather map showed nothing much in particular happening.

It is wildly picturesque; built along the face of an arid mountain.

And they said their living quarters were as bare as the arid mountains that surrounded the camp.