Long-distance Emergency app Tirolean Mountain Rescue Service

First aid Emergency app Tirolean Mountain charged battery and charger Rescue Service • Hiking map and guide • First-aid kit Smart phone users can install the new • Sun protection (sun cream and glasses, hat) • Mobile phone with fully charged battery and emergency app provided by the Tirolean • Overnight kit, sleeping bag liner etc. charger Mountain Rescue Service. It helps making an • Rain protection emergency call and transmits one’s location. • Cash Emergency numbers ««140: Mountain rescue service – Alpine emergency Planning a hike Tips and information ««112: European emergency number • Is the route/section appropriate to my skills? • Continuously check your position (works with any mobile phone & Groups should always base their planning • When planning a hike, take into account that all available networks) on the abilities of the weakest member. your body cannot achieve top performance • Allow for possibilities to leave the route or every day. Increase the strain slowly rather No coverage? abort the hike than starting off with the hardest stage. If there is no reception and in dead spots, no • Check the weather forecast for the following • Bring along flip-flops or other comfortable emergency calls can be made. → Go to an area days shoes. After a day’s hiking releasing your with better reception and dial 112 regularly. • Check where you can stock up with food feet from the hiking shoes is a real treat, and Euro emergency: Access to all available when planning a tour. This will prevent you sometimes hiking shoes are a no-no in the networks if 112 is dialled after switching on from dragging around the food for several sleeping areas of mountain huts. the phone instead of entering the PIN or by days. • Plan exit strategies: Which place allows you using the SOS emergency function. to abort the tour as quickly as possible? Equipment • Weather: Ask the proprietors of the huts Reporting an accident for advice. They are familiar with the local • Who is reporting / call-back number? • Breathable outdoor clothing which is also conditions and know the forecast. It is better • What is the exact location of the accident? suitable for the weather conditions of the to stop a hike early than to get caught in a • What has happened? following days sudden thunderstorm in high Alpine terrain. • How many people are injured? • Plan enough food for all days • Be aware of Alpine dangers. (check availability at mountain huts) • Equipment: bivouac sack, telescopic • First-aid kit umbrella, hiking sticks, bonnet and gloves • Mobile phone with fully

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Technical difficulty Demands on the hiker

Hiking trail • publicly accessible walking route • no mountain experience or • wide path with moderate ups/downs mountain equipment required Red mountain trail • medium difficulty, mainly narrow, often steep • Alpine experience required • may include short, secured walking and • reasonable physical condition sections • sure-footedness • minimum mountain equipment Black mountain trail • difficult, narrow, very steep almost • sound Alpine experience throughout, often exposed • good stamina • longer secured climbing sections • absolute sure-footedness and head for heights required • appropriate mountain equipment • very difficult • absolute sure-footedness, head for heights and • high Alpine terrain, partly unmarked good stamina required and exposed tracks • appropriate mountain equipment • unsecured walking and climbing sections • excellent sense of direction

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