Signposting path

Already some paths have been published and still there remain great more. But in this occasion one will speak on the signposting of the same ones (rather a small summary).

Signs that indicate a path

In some publications it has been named like to continue the path that is described, many of which are put up signs and to certain distances it is found the signs that indicate the direction to continue. In other occasions, on the contrary, there is not put up signs and it is the own already made path the one that guides us (in the own soil); or a former plate of path where one sees the image of a dolly (a hiker with rucksack); or finally the stones put by previous hikers.

Signs of a path with numbers

In the beginning of the approved paths (that are those paths that are identified by the signs and authorized by the autonomous and / or territorial federation). Normally there is an informative panel, in which we can see the tour, distance, difference, information of interest ... and also there appear the signs and the meaning of the same ones.

Explanatory poster at the beginning of a path

This sign indicates the type of tour that we are going to realize; it is this "GR" Great Tour (red color), "PR" Small Tour (yellow color) ó "SL" Local Path (green color).These come identified by different colors (already above mentioned), and on occasions there are superposed two types of different paths (because a section of  Great Tour passes for a Small Tour or for Local Path; a section of Small Tour passes for a Local Path; etc). They indicate us the way that we must take, if we continue well, if we have been wrong, where we take the curve to, etc (these can be painted on rocks or in sticks).

The first image we have the informative panel, indicating in red
the zone where the signs are. The second image
 the signs extracted of the first image.

All this information remains reflected in the presentation (*) of FEDME (Spanish Federation of Sports of Mountain and Climbing, web page: http: // www.fedme.es/). In case of Canaries we have FECAMON (Canary Federation of Mountaineering, web page: http: // fecamon.es/).

(*) http://www.fedme.es/salaprensa/upfiles/294_F_es.pdf (link where the signs are explained, in Spanish)

Signs of a path, where this one it is a part of one Small Tour
and of Great Tour.