The sole consists of two halves slanting against each other,.
The stones are cluster set in an oval mounting in slanting rows.
They often have a low, slanting forehead, a receding forehead.
It is true that many of these ranges are characterized by the rounded tops and the rather evenly slanting, waste-covered slopes which ncrmally result from the long-continued action of the ordinary agencies of erosion; that they bear little snow in summer and are practically wanting in glaciers; that forests are often scanty on the middle and lower slopes, the mord so because of devastation by fires; and that the general impression of great altitude is much weakened because the mountains are seen from a base which itself is 5000 or 6000 ft.
Move up right and ascend slanting ledges to the ledge on the girdle traverse (peg runner).