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Navigation Skills for Walkers, Hikers and Ramblers
- Walk & Hike Jargon
From Aréte to GPS Device to Water - every industry has its own and specific terms - or jargon.
If you know a term not covered here - tell the
Aréte - a very narrow rocky ridge
Beck - a stream
Bog Trotter - a walker who enjoys long, rough walks on the rough and boggy moorlands of the Peak District
Bottom - a broad level area lower down a valley
Boulder Slope - a mountain slope covered in large boulders
Brook - a stream
Buttress - a rock face flanked by gullies
Cairn - a small pile of stones marking the summit or route
Cirque - a large depression in a mountain side, usually with a steep back wall and often with a tarn in the bottom
Cloud - a hill
Clough - a moorland valley cut by a stream
Coire - a large depression in a mountain side, usually with a steep back wall and often with a tarn in the bottom
Col - a dip in the ridge between two mountain peaks
Contour (to) - to move across a fellside without losing height
Corrie - a large depression in a mountain side, usually with a steep back wall and often with a tarn in the bottom
Cove - a large depression in a mountain side, usually with a steep back wall and often with a tarn in the bottom
Crag - a cliff
Cwn - a large depression in a mountain side, usually with a steep back wall and often with a tarn in the bottom
Dale - a large valley
Dike - a stream
Edge - a narrow mountain ridge
Fell - a mountain or hill
Force - waterfall
Ghyll - a ravine with a stream
Gill - a ravine with a stream
Grain - a tributary stream
GPS - Global Positioning System
Grough - a channel cut into peat moorland by running water
Gully - a wide cleft down a cliff face
Gutter - a stream
Hag - an isolated 'pedestal' of peat topped with grass
Holme - an island
How - a small hill
Knott - a rocky hill
Moss - level, marshy area
Mere - a lake
Pass - a relatively easy route from one valley to another between two mountains
Pike - a sharp, well defined mountain peak
Pinnacle - a large rock face with a pointed summit
Pot-hole - cave
Rake - hillside path originally used for driving animals
Ridge - a long narrow line of mountain tops with several small summits and cols
Scramble - a climb up through rock requiring the use of both hands and feet but not rope
Scree Slope - slope covered with small pieces of rock
Shack-holes - hole in limestone where streams disappear
Sough - drainage tunnel cut in lead mines
Stones - small outcrop of gritstone
Swallets - hole in limestone where streams disappear
Swallow Holes - hole in limestone where streams disappear
Tarn - a small lake
Tor - a hill
Traverse - to move across a fellside without losing height
Water - a lake
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