The city is in an arid Basin and Range surrounded by dry mountains.

Also there were high dry mountains, green with improbably matchstick trees.

"You wonder how many houses it is wise to build at the bases of these dry and fire-prone mountains," he wrote.

It is surrounded by tall, dry mountains and deserts.

Desert and dry mountains, which mostly surround the depressions.

"And anyway, there is no other way of earning your keep in these dry mountains."

Wordlessly-for sound carried far in the thin dry mountain air-Monush gave the signal to move.

I cannot tell you what it meant to me to see the two suns of Ferro set behind the dry mountain east of my home.

Up beyond those, beyond the last houses, rose the wild, dry mountains of the California coastal range.

A creek beside the road, full now in winter, accounted for the trees in the dry mountains.