Word: ridgetop
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...Caley's wilderness is not as remote as it once was. Sydney's suburbs lap at the range's feet, and at night the sound of trucks several kilometers away drift faintly into tents. On one ridgetop a mobile phone rings. But these are small intrusions into a stern wilderness. There are few walkers out here, and standing on one of the many ridges, the view in every direction is of implacable bush. There are still unexplored gullies out there; in one such nook, north of Caley's route, the Wollemi pine, which Wyn Jones helped identify, made international headlines...