ridgeline

[rij-lahyn]

noun

1. a line formed along the highest points of a mountain ridge.

2. an area of higher ground separating two adjacent streams or watersheds.

Example Sentences

“He’s on the ridgeline right now, working his way up due south, slowly,” the camera operator radioed.

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The unit saved a man and a woman on March 3 along a ridgeline trail about 9,000 feet above Idyllwild.

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A fire had ignited high in the hills of Pacific Palisades, and smoke was massing over the bone-dry ridgeline.

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An hour later, the flames had jumped across the ridgelines and descended down the mountain.

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Jones and Ryder, both 37, saw the flames coming down a ridgeline overlooking the ranch they rent sometime around 11:30 p.m.

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