Terms
Information on a route.
What is Beta?
Protects you from rock fall.
What is a helmet?
Where CSUN Climbing Club practices.
What is Top Out Climbing?
Climbing short, technical problems with only a crash pad for protection.
What is Bouldering?
First person to free solo El Capitan.
Who is Alex Honnold?
To successfully climb a route on the first try.
What is Flash?
Sketchy, loose rock.
What is Choss?
A test everyone must pass in order to belay a climber in a gym.
What is Belay Certification?
An uncommon discipline that will be in the next Olympics.
What is Speed Climbing?
The famous climber who is missing a finger and freed the Dawn Wall.
Who is Tommy Caldwell?
A long fall on lead.
What is a Whipper?
The popular online guide service.
What is Mountain Project?
Glasses that protect your neck from strain while belaying.
What are Belaggles?
When a climber uses gear to climb.
What is Aid Climbing?
A famous climbing photographer known for filming Free Solo.
Who is Jimmy Chin?
A tall boulder problem.
What is Highball?
A long section of a climb without protection.
What is Runout?
A machine that belays the climber.
What is an Autobelay?
A technique in which two climbers climb simultaneously on the same rope.
What is Simul-Climbing?
The first woman to free 5.15a.
Who is Margo Hayes?
The grades we use to measure routes. Ex: 5.10b
What is the Yosemite Decimal System?
A title granted to the first person to redpoint a route along with naming privileges.
What is First Ascent?
The place no one should EVER wear their climbing shoes!!!
What is the Bathroom?
Using ice climbing gear on dry rock.
What is Dry Tooling?
The first person to free El Capitan.
Who is Lynn Hill?