Technical and physical difficulties
Indication and description
Easy
- Swiss footpaths: yellow (hiking trail)
- Swiss Alpine Club: T1
Medium
- Swiss Trails: white-red-white (mountain trail)
- Swiss Alpine Club: T2 and T3
Requirements
Easy
- No special requirements
Medium
- Good level of fitness
- Having a firm footing and not suffering from dizziness or vertigo
- Knowledge of the dangers of walking in the mountains (rockfalls, risk of slipping and falling, abrupt changes in weather)
Grade of the footpath and terrain
Easy
- Trails accessible to all
- As far away as possible from roads open to motorised traffic
- As least asphalted as possible
- Steep pahts provided with steps
- Walkways or bridges to cross waterways
Medium
- Terrain partially without footpath
- Mostly steep and narrow
- Rivers that can sometimes be crossed as a ford
- Sometimes exposed
Danger points
Easy
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Fall risk points protected by parapets
Medium
- Particularly difficult passages and protected with safety ropes or chains
Equipment
Easy
- No specific equipment required
Medium
- Good mountain boots with profiled sole
- Equipment adapted to the weather conditions
- Topographic maps
Physical ability
(assessment on the basis of daily stages)
Easy
- Lenght up to 15km
- Height metres up to 300 h/m
- Hiking time up to 4 hours
Medium
- Lenght up to 20km
- Height metres up to 800 h/m
- Hiking time up to 6 hours
