Geology of Germany clearly set apart from the Alpine foreland, the Northern Limestone Alps form high mountains ("German: ") of well over 2,000 metres above sea level. Of the high mountains of Germany, the highest is Zugspitze, with a height of 2,962 metres, more than a thousand metres higher than Feldberg in the Black Forest, Germany's highest mountain outside the Alps. The Northern Limestone Alps represent a depositional environment that was probably located several hundred kilometres to the south, relative to the current position of the rocks. This is reflected in facies as well as in the fossil record: While in the Eastern
Zigzag Mountain pioneer Joel Palmer's description of the zigzagging route he used to descend from Mount Hood's Zigzag Canyon (in which Zigzag Glacier is located) and on down what is now Zigzag Mountain. Zigzag Mountain Zigzag Mountain is a volcanic mountain in Clackamas County in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is located west-southwest of Mount Hood, northwest of Government Camp, east of Zigzag, and north of the Zigzag River. Because of its proximity to Mount Hood, it is considered a foothill. The highest peak has an elevation of over . Another peak, East Zigzag, is and was the site of a