Definitions

• A steep curved descending road or trail.
• A broad alluvial slope extending from the base of a mountain range out into a basin and formed by coalescence of separate alluvial fans.

• a prickly scrambling vine or shrub, especially a blackberry or other wild shrub of the rose family; genus (Rubus)

• A mound of stones erected as a memorial or marker.

  [Middle English carne, from Scottish Gaelic carn, from Old Irish.]

  cairned adj.
• A stacks of rocks used to identify the trail where it isn't obvious. Especially around turns. If you're on a cairned trail and you don't see one for a while, stop and look around. It may be a good time to backtrack and find where you missed the last turn before getting seriously lost.

• An oblong metal ring with a spring clip, used in mountaineering to attach a running rope to a piton or similar device.
• German Karabiner, short for Karabinerhaken, hook for a carbine, from Karabiner, carbine, from French carabine.

• A small ravine, especially one cut by a torrent.

• Two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.

• False or counterfeit; fake.

• A tufted perennial grass (Sporobolus wrightii) of the southwest United States, used for pasture and hay in arid regions

• Loose rock debris covering a slope.
• A slope of loose rock debris at the base of a steep incline or cliff.

• a slope formed especially by an accumulation of rock debris
• rock debris at the base of a cliff

• a long, narrow open container for animals to eat or drink out of.
• Meteorology. an elongated area of relatively low pressure.

• volcanic activity or phenomena.