footprints: answers

77: safety around rockfaces

sample answers

D Don’t lairise/run around rock faces
A Always follow instructions
N Never litter/graffiti rocks
G Give this activity your best shot
E Ensure that you belay correctly
R Remember to help out when setting up & packing up  

 

L Listen to instructions attentively
E Eat healthy meals & snacks during the day
G Grip the brake end of the rope firmly when belaying
E Ensure that you use correct climbing calls
N Never wander off without permission
D Don’t secretly video your teachers!

additional resource

Below is a slide that I show students before we go on climbing camps. At a superficial level, it is designed to allow the inevitable bush lawyer in the class absolutely no room for movement to say things like, “You didn’t say we couldn’t defenestrate rocks.” At a deeper level, it is designed to get the point across that nothing should be propelled in any way in situations where people could be hurt or equipment or nature damaged.

slide

 

 

 

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