The different types of trails are marked with a different marking code depending on the type of trail and the country in which it is located. Despite such a diversity of marks, all of them mark the route of the trail in compliance with the guidelines established by the European Hiking Association.[1] These guidelines were established at the 1st European Conference on Trail Marking, organized by said organization, and held between April 28 and May 2, 2004 in Bechyne (Czech Republic). This event brought together 24 national hiking organizations from 17 European countries, all representing more than 5 million European hikers.

In the *Bechyne Declaration"), common guidelines were agreed to provide coherence to the network of European trails, but a common code of markings was not created for all countries. The different signaling codes existing in different parts of Europe make this objective difficult to achieve and it was ruled that the imposition of a common marking system would be a detrimental act for hiking, due to the consequences it could entail, such as the creation of economic costs for the different associations, the loss of volunteers, confusion and the loss of the historical identity created by traditional marking systems. Instead, it was agreed that the diversity of marking systems was not an obstacle to the mobility of hikers through the different territories, as long as the change in marking system was notified and informed to the hiker whenever it occurred.

Contenido

El senderista se vale de una vestimenta particular además de un conjunto de accesorios y artefactos conocidos como equipo. Si bien el senderismo puede variar mucho por el tipo de recorrido, se describe la vestimenta y el equipo general necesario para recorrer un sendero de media o larga distancia.

Un aspecto muy importante en el senderismo es el peso del equipamiento. Se buscan objetos útiles y portátiles, del menor peso y volumen posible.

Outfit

This must be appropriate to the medium or means through which it is going to be traveled. As a general rule, you should follow the theory of layers whose elements are:

Basic accessories

Essential basic equipment for a hiker:.

While the moment of the birth of hiking at a European level is considered to be the one in which Henri Viaux", a French walker, inaugurated during the year 1946-1947 the first pedestrian route that could be traveled safely thanks to the indications that prevented getting lost, free of difficulties and which made it, therefore, unnecessary to have a guide, in Spain, the fact of marking trails in order to facilitate their travel had occurred before 1972 in various parts of the geography, but always with a local character. It can be said that hiking was introduced in Spain through the arrival in 1972 of a letter from the Association de Tourisme Pedestre de Paris to the Spanish Mountaineering Federation in which the continuation of the European Trail E-4 from the border in Puigcerdá (Catalonia) to the southern part of the Iberian Peninsula was requested.[2]​.

From that moment, and to respond to that request, the Hiking Committee was established at the initiative of Enric Aguadé Sans and Joan Cullel, and at the end of that year, 1972, the annual meeting of the Federation was held in León "León (Spain)" in which said proposal was addressed, deciding to transmit the order to the Catalan Mountaineering Federation.

The following year, in 1973, it was decided to adopt the French signaling system and take the regulations of the neighboring country to develop a draft on signaling regulations and approve the 1st Trails Plan.

In 1975, specifically on March 2, Enric Aguadé Sans and Joan Cullell painted the first white and red mark in Tivisa (Tarragona, Spain), belonging to the GR-7, which today extends to Tarifa and is part of the European Trail E-4.

Aguadé was one of the people in charge at that time of coordinating the signage of the first 222 km of said itinerary. It took only a few months for the topoguide to be published. It was undoubtedly these years 1972, 1973 and 1974 that marked a milestone in the history of hiking in Spain and Aguadé was its most prominent protagonist.

The 1970s were the childhood of Spanish hiking, in which the regional delegations of the Federation began to be created, and in which the effort, enthusiasm and altruism of the precursors of this sport in Spain managed to overcome the lack of economic resources and experience at the time. The surroundings of the Pyrenees (Catalonia, Huesca, Navarra and the Basque Country) were undoubtedly the pioneering area of ​​the time.

The 1980s were the time of contagion of the movement to the communities of Madrid and Valencia and of the development of the GR, with at the end of that decade some 8027 km of marked trails with published topoguides existing. In this decade, the end of Cullel's time at the helm of the federation trekking came to an end, passing the baton to Domingo Pliego.

In the 1990s, PR trails triumphed. It was the decade of the consolidation, generalization and popularization of hiking as a sport, and the time in which said sport transcended the mountaineering world to the general population.

In 1996, the Basque Country was the first autonomous community that, through a Decree, regulated the use of trail signs in its territory. In 1997, the Trails Technician course was taught for the first time in the Port of Navacerrada (Madrid-Segovia), a qualification that unified the knowledge acquired over more than 20 years of experience.

Starting in 2001, the hiking world continued to mature in Spain, increasing the number of marked trails and also the number of users. The impact of this activity in non-urban areas begins to be studied and its economic profitability is determined in the "Study of the socioeconomic and environmental impact of hiking in the province of Huesca."

Today, in Spain there is a network of more than 60,000 km of marked trails, unequally distributed, and concentrated in the peri-Pyrenean area (Basque Country, Navarra, Huesca, Catalonia), northern Mediterranean coast (Valencia, Castellón, Tarragona and Barcelona), Cantabrian Mountains (Asturias, León "León (Spain)"), Palencia, Burgos and Cantabria), center (Madrid and Ávila) and southeast (Granada, Almería and Murcia).

Currently, the approval of routes in Spain corresponds to the corresponding autonomous mountain federations, depending on the trail, and in accordance with the legislation in force in the autonomous communities that have it.

The different types of trails are marked with a different marking code depending on the type of trail and the country in which it is located. Despite such a diversity of marks, all of them mark the route of the trail in compliance with the guidelines established by the European Hiking Association.[1] These guidelines were established at the 1st European Conference on Trail Marking, organized by said organization, and held between April 28 and May 2, 2004 in Bechyne (Czech Republic). This event brought together 24 national hiking organizations from 17 European countries, all representing more than 5 million European hikers.

In the *Bechyne Declaration"), common guidelines were agreed to provide coherence to the network of European trails, but a common code of markings was not created for all countries. The different signaling codes existing in different parts of Europe make this objective difficult to achieve and it was ruled that the imposition of a common marking system would be a detrimental act for hiking, due to the consequences it could entail, such as the creation of economic costs for the different associations, the loss of volunteers, confusion and the loss of the historical identity created by traditional marking systems. Instead, it was agreed that the diversity of marking systems was not an obstacle to the mobility of hikers through the different territories, as long as the change in marking system was notified and informed to the hiker whenever it occurred.

Contenido

El senderista se vale de una vestimenta particular además de un conjunto de accesorios y artefactos conocidos como equipo. Si bien el senderismo puede variar mucho por el tipo de recorrido, se describe la vestimenta y el equipo general necesario para recorrer un sendero de media o larga distancia.

Un aspecto muy importante en el senderismo es el peso del equipamiento. Se buscan objetos útiles y portátiles, del menor peso y volumen posible.

Outfit

This must be appropriate to the medium or means through which it is going to be traveled. As a general rule, you should follow the theory of layers whose elements are:

Basic accessories

Essential basic equipment for a hiker:.

While the moment of the birth of hiking at a European level is considered to be the one in which Henri Viaux", a French walker, inaugurated during the year 1946-1947 the first pedestrian route that could be traveled safely thanks to the indications that prevented getting lost, free of difficulties and which made it, therefore, unnecessary to have a guide, in Spain, the fact of marking trails in order to facilitate their travel had occurred before 1972 in various parts of the geography, but always with a local character. It can be said that hiking was introduced in Spain through the arrival in 1972 of a letter from the Association de Tourisme Pedestre de Paris to the Spanish Mountaineering Federation in which the continuation of the European Trail E-4 from the border in Puigcerdá (Catalonia) to the southern part of the Iberian Peninsula was requested.[2]​.

From that moment, and to respond to that request, the Hiking Committee was established at the initiative of Enric Aguadé Sans and Joan Cullel, and at the end of that year, 1972, the annual meeting of the Federation was held in León "León (Spain)" in which said proposal was addressed, deciding to transmit the order to the Catalan Mountaineering Federation.

The following year, in 1973, it was decided to adopt the French signaling system and take the regulations of the neighboring country to develop a draft on signaling regulations and approve the 1st Trails Plan.

In 1975, specifically on March 2, Enric Aguadé Sans and Joan Cullell painted the first white and red mark in Tivisa (Tarragona, Spain), belonging to the GR-7, which today extends to Tarifa and is part of the European Trail E-4.

Aguadé was one of the people in charge at that time of coordinating the signage of the first 222 km of said itinerary. It took only a few months for the topoguide to be published. It was undoubtedly these years 1972, 1973 and 1974 that marked a milestone in the history of hiking in Spain and Aguadé was its most prominent protagonist.

The 1970s were the childhood of Spanish hiking, in which the regional delegations of the Federation began to be created, and in which the effort, enthusiasm and altruism of the precursors of this sport in Spain managed to overcome the lack of economic resources and experience at the time. The surroundings of the Pyrenees (Catalonia, Huesca, Navarra and the Basque Country) were undoubtedly the pioneering area of ​​the time.

The 1980s were the time of contagion of the movement to the communities of Madrid and Valencia and of the development of the GR, with at the end of that decade some 8027 km of marked trails with published topoguides existing. In this decade, the end of Cullel's time at the helm of the federation trekking came to an end, passing the baton to Domingo Pliego.

In the 1990s, PR trails triumphed. It was the decade of the consolidation, generalization and popularization of hiking as a sport, and the time in which said sport transcended the mountaineering world to the general population.

In 1996, the Basque Country was the first autonomous community that, through a Decree, regulated the use of trail signs in its territory. In 1997, the Trails Technician course was taught for the first time in the Port of Navacerrada (Madrid-Segovia), a qualification that unified the knowledge acquired over more than 20 years of experience.

Starting in 2001, the hiking world continued to mature in Spain, increasing the number of marked trails and also the number of users. The impact of this activity in non-urban areas begins to be studied and its economic profitability is determined in the "Study of the socioeconomic and environmental impact of hiking in the province of Huesca."

Today, in Spain there is a network of more than 60,000 km of marked trails, unequally distributed, and concentrated in the peri-Pyrenean area (Basque Country, Navarra, Huesca, Catalonia), northern Mediterranean coast (Valencia, Castellón, Tarragona and Barcelona), Cantabrian Mountains (Asturias, León "León (Spain)"), Palencia, Burgos and Cantabria), center (Madrid and Ávila) and southeast (Granada, Almería and Murcia).

Currently, the approval of routes in Spain corresponds to the corresponding autonomous mountain federations, depending on the trail, and in accordance with the legislation in force in the autonomous communities that have it.