[at-l] dictionaries

[lwbooher@halifax.com (Leslie Booher)]

Turtling, where you fall on your back with your pack under you.  Or is it
falling forward with your pack on top pressing you down?  Nah, now that we
go light, that can't happen.  <G>  anklebear

----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Hudson <hudsom@us.ibm.com>
To: <at-l@backcountry.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 2:46 PM
Subject: [at-l] dictionaries


>
> Gee, I was reading through the Mountain Biking dictionary and thinking
> about how many of the definitions refer to crashes and the related blood
> and gore...
> The few slang terms are know for rock climbing are "flat-lining" and
> "cratering", both of which involve getting to the ground before you reach
> the end of your rope (Kind of like Wiley E. Coyotes parachute opening
after
> he hits).
> Then I'm thinking how comparatively safe backpacking is as a sport.
There's
> only two comparative terms I can remember, and since one is a trailname
> that doesn't count (Singe). The other term is "red-blazing", when you fall
> off the mountain and leave a streak behind you. Any other terms out there
I
> haven't heard yet?
>
> skeeter
>
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