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(say CARE-n)
Pile of rocks along a trail to tell you where the trail is. Cairns are good for marking a trail where there are no trees and where it snows in winter. When there is snow on the trail and you can't see it, the cairns still let you know where you should go--and you SHOULD stay on trails!
trail and cairn
Small stove, with one burner, that is used in the outdoors to cook things.
camp
stoves(say CAN-yun)
Deep valley, like the Grand Canyon, which was carved out over 2 million years by the Colorado River. Canyon is a word that comes originally from Spanish.
Canyon
(say cara-BEAN-er)
Piece of equipment for mountaineering, rock climbing and ice climbing. Carabiners can be used for many purposes, but usually they hook things together--like a person to a rope! Serious climbers usually call them "beaners."
carabiner
Hole dug into the ground to go to the bathroom in. When you are travelling outdoors, you should use a cat hole in order to keep the outdoors as clean as possible.
Diving into the pools of water that people sometimes find inside caves. Some people will do just about anything!
Sport where people explore inside
caves. Sometimes these people are
called spelunkers (say SPEE-lunk-erz)
cave entrance
Chemical used to make water clean. Everyone knows chlorine is put in pools to keep them clean--and nobody would ever drink pool water--but if you put less into water you can still make it clean and drinkable at the same time.
To cut down all of the trees on a piece of ground. Clearcutting is not good for the environment because it leaves whole areas of the land empty and upsets the balance of nature.
logging truck
(say column without the -umn)
The low spot between two mountains. If you want to get past some mountains, it is a lot easier to go through the col between two of them than to climb all the way over them. Other words that mean the same thing are pass and saddle.
col
(say CUMP-us)
Instrument used to tell people where North, South, East and West are.
compass
(say cun-tam-uh-NAY-shun)
Dirtying of something. All water in the outdoors should be considered contaminated by germs and in need of purifying before it can be used by people. It is also important that you not contaminate anything yourself when you are outdoors! Leaving garbage at a campsite, for example, is contaminating nature.
Short for Cardio Pulmonary Rescuscitation. CPR is used to help save people who have stopped breathing and whose hearts have stopped beating. It is always good to learn CPR and even older kids can do this!
Man doing CPR
(say CRAM-pon)
Pointy spikes put on the bottom of boots that let people walk on ice and frozen snow.
crampons
(say cruh-VASS)
Crack or gash in a glacier. Crevasses can be large or small, and anything in between. Some crevasses are deep and large enough to fit a house, and some are much smaller. You cannot see many crevasses because they are covered with snow, but you still have to be careful because if the snow caves in you could fall inside! You must only travel on glaciers and near crevasses with people who really know what they are doing.
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