Alpine fellfield, on windswept rocky ridges and summits above treeline.

The cat is dragged, howling with pain and anger, all the way to the dreary, windswept ridges of old Stone.

The windswept ridge that Sharman Chapman-Crane hiked to on a recent fall afternoon is the kind of place, she said, that she normally would avoid.

He avoided the dangerous windswept ridge and, by traversing the north face, ascended into the gorge which has since borne his name.

The windswept ridge, standing 800 feet above the valley, is an ideal takeoff spot for lightweight planes made of fabric or fiberglass.

They were lean and misshapen beings, all bent and twisted like trees on a windswept ridge stripped bare and turned as hard as iron.

When I reached the lantern, I found it resting upon an outcrop of rock that protruded through the shallower snow on the windswept ridge.

She started over a bare, windswept ridge that led to a steep, smooth, snow-covered slope, and skidded on a patch of scree.

"This is what you fought for," he said, standing up on the windswept ridge again one recent weekend, almost exactly a year later.

However, some may remain on windswept ridges throughout the year.