We went round the seaward end of the snouted glacier, and after tramping about a mile over stony ground and snow- coated debris, we crossed some big ridges of scree and moraines.
At first it had the appearance of a huge berg, but with the growing light we could see plainly the black lines of scree and the high, precipitous cliffs of the island, which were miraged up to some extent.
Less than 100 yards down the Doup the falling screehas nearly buried the cairn and iron cross erected to the memory of the Rev.
It has a copious scree at the foot, and more than half-way up it divides into three.
We are here getting near the end of Great Napes, which are separated on the west from White Napes by the scree gully which is called Little Hell Gate.
When the question arises of how to climb the High Man, it is obvious that the scree just above it will be the nearest point to the summit; but equally obvious that the climb, though short, would be nearly vertical.
After a laborious scramble up this scree the rake is entered, and only a few yards further the lower pitch of Deep Gill is seen on the left hand.
The only side from which the latter shows a respectable elevation is the west, where the scree lies much lower, because it has a free escape, instead of being pent up between the two gables like the east scree.
There is capital scree here, and a very rapid descent into Mosedale may be made by it.
Power and his guards stood on a scree of loose stones and shale not far below the snow line, and well above the first precipitous valley in which even the hardiest pines reached a stunted growth.
A fierce clamor of talk broke out suddenly; but a swirl of snow swept down from a neighboring glacier, and even these hardy savages had no desire to be caught on that dangerous scree in a snowstorm.
MAIA comes, flushed and irritated, down over the stone-scree on the left.
It was not till I was coming down that I discovered that the moraine-covered glacier itself--here covered with shale instead of boulders andscree as in the case of the main glacier--gave comfortable walking.
Below, a precipitous slope of small stones that the dalesmen call a scree ran down to a hollow strewn with broken rocks, and across this he could distinguish the blurred flat top of another height.
I have had very bad news about the Holler Scree flock, Charlotte, and I must away there to see what can be done.
He was, but two of the shepherds from Holler Screehave just come for him.
We took his body up in the darkness, and buried it in the scree on my hill; then we came back to Auber's room, and faced each other by the empty bed.
Then we buried it deep under the big pile of scree on my hill.
There are bands of red tuff between some of the lava flows, also several scree slopes and alluvial fans at the foot; on the eastern side there are pyramidal peaks.
Higher up I skirted several small snow-fields, where better progress was possible, for the scree at the edges of the snow did not slip away so freely.
On examining the other side there was no trace of moraine; there was scree in places, but a great deal of the tuff was uncovered.
Having camera in hand, I had an awkward scramble up a very steep scree slope, and I often started small avalanches, which scattered in all directions on their descent.
This, and any other bad bits, can generally be avoided by climbing down to the scree gully on our left.
There are innumerable scree gullies up the face, but the rock ridges in between them have no good features.
A small terrace at about the level of the wall just referred to leads round the rocks to the left into a large scree gully, which offers good sport in snowy weather.
There is yet a fourth gully, still further north, but it has only one obstacle in it, and morescree than anyone can possibly want.
Between this and the north ridge a large scree gully leads up to the highest part of the mountain, and from it on the right several short scrambles on good slabby rocks are obtainable.
A steep and wet scree gully leads down to the valley, and we may go part of the way down until we are about 100 ft.
In doing so we pass first a scree gully and then an inviting cleft up to the left, but this is found to lose its interest after the first 20 ft.
It is mostly scree with a small pitch near the top, and was once marked above by a little cairn.
We are now at about the level of the upper limit of scree on the Mynydd Moel face, and a traverse can be effected round to the oblique chimney already referred to.
Perhaps the neatest way of descending this cliff is by a very narrow vertical chimney, marked at top and bottom by small piles of stones, a little to the north of the big scree gully, and close to the highest point of Mynydd Moel.
After this a little more scrambling leads to a scree and an easy finish.
Presently it takes a more northerly direction and becomes a steep, wide slope of scree following the line of cliff to the great blocks of fallen stones which mark the mouth of the chasm.
From the far end of Llyn Idwal a longscree leads up to the mouth of the gully, which may be identified from a distance by the pitch which blocks it about half-way up and a broad strip of grass outside it on the west.
But down through the dark they went, and so came on to the stony scree at the end of the pass and into the Vale; and the whole Folk save the three chieftains flowed over it and stood about it down on the level grass of the Vale.
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