Caving Commands and Buzzwords
Across
- 3. supporting a fellow caver in their time of possible slippage
- 4. a way of climbing rope in which you resemble the movement of this animal
- 9. DO NOT LOOK UP when this is yelled (yell if you drop something)
- 10. a way to move a rope away from something through rigging this
- 12. taking adventure at your own pace
- 13. so you do not die on the ground
- 15. what you yell when you remove yourself from the rope and out of the rock fall zone
Down
- 1. so you do not die on rope
- 2. when you are in an area where it is possible for a rock that’s knocked off above you to hit you below
- 5. A cave with multiple successive drops
- 6. ascending without the croll
- 7. a person aboveground who knows who’s on the trip, where they’re going, the plan for the trip, and know the procedure to follow if something goes wrong
- 8. how to get through a cave without a floor (putting yourself between a rock and a hard place, which is another rock)
- 11. when six bars are engaged on the rappel rack. No downward movement possible
- 14. what you yell before you attach yourself to a rope