CLASSIFICATION OF ROUTES BASED ON THE DIFFICULTY IN THE FIELD OF HIKING
T = tourist
FEATURES
Paths to driveways, paths or obvious paths that do not pose uncertainties or issues of orientation, with modest inclines and gradients content.
SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES
Require a knowledge of the excursion of the base and physical preparation for walking.
EQUIPMENT
They are required appropriate clothing and suitable footwear.
E = hiking
FEATURES
Courses that represent the majority of the hiking routes, and then among the various for the natural environment. Are held on dirt tracks, trails, and sometimes the tracks; on the ground is different to the context of geomorphology and vegetation (e.g. grassland, underbrush, debris, scree). Are generally reported and may be steep. You can meet the easy steps on the rock, not exposed, requiring the use of hands for balance. Any exposed spots are usually protected. You can traverse flat areas or little tilt of snow remaining.
SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES
Require the sense of orientation and hiking experience and adequate training.
EQUIPMENT
Is required suitable equipment, with particular regard to footwear.
EE= experienced hikers
FEATURES
Routes almost always reported that require the ability to move along the paths and tracks on difficult terrain and/or treacherous (steep and/or slippery grass, rocks or debris, rocky), is often unstable and uneven. May have parts that are exposed, rails, ledges or rocks with minor technical difficulties and/or equipped, while excluding railways, tramways, properly so called. Develop on slopes medium‐high. It may be necessary to crossing stretches of snow, but are excluded from all of the locations on the glacier.
SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES
Need good hiking experience, ability, orientation, knowledge of the characteristics of the mountain environment, sure-footedness and a head for heights, the ability of the evaluation and decision-making, as well as physical preparation is adequate.
EQUIPMENT
Require equipment and equipment appropriate to the planned route.
EEA = experienced hikers equipment
For via ferrata means an itinerary, which sections of the rock are specially equipped with metal structures: cables, chains, ladders, pediglie and brackets, which facilitate and enable the progression. Involving the use of personal protective equipment certified in accordance with the regulations in force (harness, kit via ferrata, and a helmet) and an adequate preparation technique. They are reported to the departure from the breakfast table, and adhere to precise design criteria and regulatory requirements.
EEA ‐ F (ferrata easy)
The path is little exposed, well-protected and a little challenging, technically. The cable and/or chain and any other fixtures well facilitate the progression together with the numerous supports and holds natural. There may be a short vertical lines. Requires a correct use and careful use of individual protection devices.
EEA ‐ PD (ferrata little difficult)
Via Ferrata on a path articulated with the presence of channels and chimneys, vertical passages and exposed parts. Equipped with cable and/or chain, can present different metal frames (steps, pediglie, brackets and ladders, metal). Requires attention in the progression, supports and handles are present with a variety of solution steps. Requires a correct use and careful of the individual protection devices.
EEA ‐ D (via ferrata difficult)
Ferrata, the path of which is predominantly vertical and can overcome any short stretch of the overhang, where the exposure is repeated with a certain continuity. There are cable and/or chain in addition to a variety of fixed structures that are useful for progression. Requires a lot of preparation, physical and technical, with the ability to optimize the supports and handles, easy on the upper limbs. Requires a correct use and be particularly careful of the individual protection devices.
EEA ‐ MD (via ferrata very difficult)
Via Ferrata is spread over the steep walls, which are articulated, with few supports and holds natural evident. Exceeds traits steep with poor artificial elements. High exposure with technical steps and airplanes, which require adequate physical strength and good technical background. Requires a correct use and very attentive of individual protection devices.
EEA ‐ AND (via ferrata extremely difficult)
Ferrata predominantly vertical and overhanging. For the most part equipped with the only cable and/or chain, the supports and handles, natural existing are limited and only on an occasional basis, there is the presence of brackets, pediglie and / or steps. Requires high technical skills and a lot of physical strength. Requires a correct use and extremely attentive of individual protection devices.
HIKING IN THE SNOW WITH SNOW SHOES
EAI = hiking in the snow
Paths that take place in snow-covered with the use of snowshoes, within the limits of the hiking and so on slopes middle‐to-low (≤ 25°). They are divided into three different levels of difficulty (easy, difficult and hard) in the reason of the difference in level, the environmental context in which they are held, for the technical preparation and the issues related to the assessment of the danger of an avalanche that feature. Provide all the information deriving from the specific contextual and environmental conditions, typical of the mountain environment, the snowy different depending on altitude and latitude of the route.
EAI ‐ F (easy)
FEATURES
The path is flat, or with modest gradients, amounting to an average inclination of less than 10°. No difficulty in normal environmental conditions. It will not be exposed to steep slopes, and then, the avalanche danger is very low. It takes place on paths large, easily recognizable. The difference is usually contained within the 400 metres.
SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES
Does not require special techniques and the use of snowshoes. Requires basic knowledge of the environment with snow and requires a minimum of training, depending on the snow conditions and as a function of the development of the itinerary. Without the risk of slipping or falling on display.
EQUIPMENT
It is required to wear clothing suitable to the season. Equipment -- ARVA, shovel and probe is recommended, subject to local laws and regulations.
FEATURES
Path with a slope to the more modest, amounting to an average inclination of between 10° and 15°. Can cross sections close to or in the proximity of the slopes with a strong inclination and, therefore, potentially subject to the avalanche risk.
EAI ‐ PD (little difficult)
SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES
Need for mastery in the use of snow-shoes, and, even under normal environmental conditions, of good capacity of local evaluation of the path and the correct interpretation of the bulletin nivo‐weather. It is not excluded the danger of short slips. Is demand planning capabilities.
EQUIPMENT
Essential equipment -- ARVA, shovel and probe and the knowledge of the techniques of self-rescue.
EAI ‐ D (difficult)
FEATURES
The path that has slopes also accentuated equal to tilts up to 25°, on the ground varied in morphology and display, and with the slopes of which are subject to the danger of avalanches.
SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES
Need experience and excellent skills in the use of snowshoes to address whether a risk of slipping. Requires advanced planning skills and an excellent knowledge of the environment in function of the snowpack and avalanche hazard, combined with a correct interpretation of the bulletin nivo‐weather, besides preparation adequate physical.
EQUIPMENT
Essential equipment -- ARVA, shovel and probe and the knowledge of the techniques of self-rescue. It may be necessary to use an ice axe and crampons depending on the planned route and the environmental conditions.
