Vertical caving terminology and methods > SRT basic terms
An additional traverse line rigged at foot height, that can be used as a series of footholds for a bolt traverse, or Tyrolean traverse. With a bolt traverse, this may be relatively loose, but with a Tyrolean traverse, it will be as tight as the main Tyrolean traverse line. This is very rarely used, as Tyrolean traverses in caves are normally negotiated in a different manner, and bolt traverses can be negotiated without a foot rope. Most cavers react to a foot rope with confused questions. With a loose foot rope, the sag in the rope make it difficult to use near the knots. A foot rope may need its own anchors, or may use the same anchors as the main traverse line. It can optionally be made from a series of long loops hanging down at each anchor of the main traverse line, to provide a foothold like a footloop at the anchors. This is used so infrequently that there is no commonly recognised term for it, and the terms given here were stated by British cavers as "I think I have heard it called a [foot rope]".
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