Walking in the United Kingdom the scrambling suddenly becomes much more serious. In Britain, the term "mountaineering" tends to be reserved for technical climbing on mountains, or for serious domestic hillwalking, especially in winter, with additional equipment such as ice axe and crampons, or for routes requiring rock-climbing skills and a rope, such as the traverse of the Cuillin ridge, on the Scottish island of Skye. The British Mountaineering Council provides more information on this topic. Navigation and map-reading are essential hillwalking skills on high ground and mountains, due to the variability of British and Irish weather and the risk of rain, low cloud, fog
Hills in the Puget Lowland counties) Whidbey Island and Camano Island are islands in Puget Sound and form the bulk of Island County. The Blue Hills of the Kitsap Peninsula are unusual in that they are composed of basalt bedrock, not glacial till. Bainbridge Island is an island in Puget Sound. Landforms in South Puget Sound (Thurston and Mason counties) The Issaquah Alps Bellevue, Issaquah and Newcastle on the Eastside are considered part of the Cascades foothills by many authors. They are basalt intrusions possibly related to the Blue Hills of the Kitsap Peninsula. Highest point Tiger Mountain summit, . The Anacortes Community Forest Lands