Cuillin Harta Corrie and Coire Na Creich in the Cuillin: Boswell and Johnson visited Skye during their tour of the Western Isles in 1773, and observed snow falling on the summits of the range in September. Boswell described the Cuillin as "a prodigious range of mountains, capped with rocks like pinnacles in a strange variety of shapes". Uniquely for a group of Scottish mountains there are no records of the majority of the Cuillin summits having been climbed prior to the start of mountaineering as a leisure activity in the Victorian era, a situation reflected in the fact that around half
Hills in the Puget Lowland contain several peaks over high, including the Fidalgo Island high point, Mount Erie. Mason County's Olympic Mountains foothills are called the Satsop Hills. Hills in the Puget Lowland Hills in the Puget Lowland, between the Cascades and the Olympic Mountains, including the entire Seattle metropolitan area, are generally between and rarely more than above sea level. Hills are often notable geologically and for social reasons, such as the seven hills of Seattle. The Puget Lowland lies between the Cascades and Olympic Mountains and once contained a plateau of glacial till not usually more than above sea level. The plateau, "the