slide-rock

Ever they learned more of the wild things that were their only neighbors, -- creatures all the way down the scale from the lordly moose, proud of his growing antlers and monarch of the marshes, to the small pika, squeaking on the slide-rock of the high peaks.

The Sky Line of Spruce Edison Marshall 1930

The slide-rock bank gleamed white, and above it stretched the long rocky slope of Pilot, with the moon casting lights and shadows clear to its top.

Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies 1911

Above it on one side rose a steep slope of a gray slide-rock, like a railway cut, only of course no railroad was around here; and all about, on the other sides, were pointed pines.

Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies 1911

But tumble out they did, and overtime they worked, hard and well, for when the morning dawned the slide-rock and the whole world was covered deep in snow, but every haycock had been removed to a safer place under the rocks, and the wisdom of the Coney once more exemplified, with adequate energy to make it effective.

Wild Animals at Home Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

She had not proceeded far when clouds and darkness came on, and on a slope of slide-rock she lost the trail.

Wild Life on the Rockies Enos Abijah Mills 1896

He burrows far down in the slide-rock that falls from the cliffs, where he is protected by a great bed of broken stone so thick that no predatory animal can dig through it and catch him.

The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations William Temple Hornaday 1895

There in those awful solitudes, enlivened only by the crack and rattle of falling slide-rock, the harsh cry of Clark's nut-cracker and the whistling wind sweeping over the storm-threshed summits and through the stunted cedar, the pika chooses to make his home.

The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations William Temple Hornaday 1895

Over the slide-rock that protects him, the snows of the long and dreary winter pile up from six to ten feet deep, and lie unbroken for months.

The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations William Temple Hornaday 1895

No spinal column was ever made by Nature or developed by man that could endure without breaking a headforemost fall from the top of a cliff to the slide-rock bottom thereof.

The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations William Temple Hornaday 1895

When discovered on a ledge two feet wide leading across the face of a precipice, poor Billy has nothing to do but to take the bullets as they come until he reels and falls far down to the cruel slide-rock.

The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations William Temple Hornaday 1895