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TREKANDO · The mountain, at your pace
Tell me where you are, how long you have and who. TREKANDO offers you the itineraries you can really do today and, after exit, learn your step.
The itineraries grouped for what you are looking for: tap a collection and find it on the card, with the times on your step.
The site works without connection: save it on the phone and can be consulted in the mountain hut, in the valley and wherever there is no field. How to make →
Three questions, and TREKANDO tells you what itinerary really lies on your day: with the time to go, the one you are at home and the times at your pace.
The map shows 172 itineraries with the real track calculated on the paths of OpenStreetMap: tap a path for the profile card, time on your step and GPX.
All the rest: preparation, equipment, regions with bulletins, skiing, van, news and offline mode.
An excursion is planned at home. The causes that the Alpine rescue and the CAI reported more often in accidents in hiking are trivial: disproportionate itinerary than preparation, late departure, inadequate equipment and footwear, uncontrolled weather. These six passes are done the night before, in 20 minutes.
On this page: official data = taken from CAI, CNSAS, AINEVA or regional weather services, with the link to the source · estimate TREKANDO = calculation or agreement of this site · your data = measured by your hikes.
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Not at the picture. The three data that count are elevation gain (D+), development in kilometers and difficulty. The tiring difference, the kilometers consume time, the difficulty says if you need experience.
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The travel time is not the trip time: add stops, photos, lunch. Then work backwards from the desired return time and check the time of sunset.
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At the altitude counts the zero share, the wind and the time of thunderstorms, not the symbol of the sun. In summer the storms arrive from the early afternoon: you leave early and you are returning by 15.
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Also, in July, even for two hours. At altitude you lose about 6 °C every 1000 m and the wind does the rest.
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To a precise person, with itinerary and time of supposed return: if you need a search, know where to look changes everything. The CNSAS repeats it in every prevention campaign.
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Call me the 112, stay where you are, make you visible. If you can, first activate an app that transmits the coordinates.
It is the theme that you find on the signs, guides and all the tabs of this site. Reading it well avoids 80% of trouble.
| Sig | Land | What do you need? |
|---|---|---|
| T | Tourist. Mulattiere, forest roads, alleys of valley bottom and lakeside, modest slopes. | Low trekking shoes, no specific experience. |
| E | Hiking. Paths marked on various soil, steep traits, short passages on stone or residual snow. | Boots, safe step, multi-hour training. |
| EE | For experienced hikers. Traces, nails, small rocks to be overcome with the hands, even exposed traits not equipped. | Absence of dizziness, experience, ability to orientate. |
| EEA | For experienced hikers with equipment. Fermented routes and paths equipped with cables and stairs. | Homologated ferrata kit, helmet, harness, training to use. |
With the snow the path disappears and the ground becomes assessable only through Avalanche bulletin (European scale from 1 to 5) and slope of slopes: above 30° the risk of detachment grows clearly. For ski touring you use the Blachère scale, which describes the difficulty ski resort of the descent; for snowshoes it counts above all the exposure to the danger of avalanches of the path.
| Sig | Land | What do you need? |
|---|---|---|
| Snowshoeing | Routes along valley floors, plateaus and broad ridges, with slopes below 30° and no crossings beneath slopes loaded with snow. | Rackets, gaiters, sticks, ARTVA+pala+slow where the ground is open. |
| Cross-country skiing | Piste jokes and tracks for classic technique or skated, at the bottom of the valley. No valuation risk. | Bottom equipment, light layered clothing. |
| MS | Medium skier: regular slopes up to about 30°, descent without forced steps. | Skiing, skins, ARTVA, shovel, probe; reading the bulletin. |
| BS | Good skier: slopes up to 35°, narrow strokes, snow often not ideal. | Good technique in every snow, autonomy of evaluation of the mantle. |
| BSA / OSA | With mountaineering routes: glaciers, ridges, rampages and peaks. | Corda, crampons, pickle, roped progression technique. |
Winter rule: avalanche bulletin the evening before and in the morning, ARTVA turned on and tried on departure, safety distance on the suspicious slopes, early return when the sun warms up. Grade 3 (marked) or higher the prudence has to be raised a lot: it is the degree in which, according to statistics AINEVA, most avalanche accidents are concentrated in Italy. The scale and criteria are those of European scale of avalanche danger. official data · AINEVA
The vertical time (health + descent) and horizontal time are calculated separately, then the greater is added to the middle of the minor: it is the rule that approaches more to the real time on alpine terrain. The stops are estimated in 15 minutes every 2 hours of walking plus 30 minutes of lunch break.
172 itineraries between the Alps and the northern Apennines, divided by region, from one hour lake tour to five-day trekking, and from the valley bottom snowshoe to high-altitude ski touring. Each card says where you leave, how much the parking costs, if you need lifts or shuttles and if you arrive by public transport. Rates and rules of access change every season: those here are indicative, check the site of the resort before you get in the car.
Choose the city from which you leave and order the itineraries from the nearest, with the inline distance of air and the estimated travel time.
All the routes of the two seasons in a glance, grouped by region: summer before, winter after.
Seven Alpine regions, each with its character, its itineraries and — above all — its weather service and its avalanche bulletin. These are the links that really serve the evening before leaving.
| Valle d'Aosta | 4 summers | 3 winter winter |
| Piedmont | 5 Summer | 5 winter winter winter |
| Lombardy | 5 Summer | 3 winter winter |
| Trentino | 34 summers | 8 winter winter |
| South Tyrol | 28 summer | 11 winter winter winter |
| Veneto | 14 summer | 2 winter winter |
| Friuli Venezia Giulia | 4 summers | 2 winter winter |
| Northern Apennines | 37 summer summer | 0 winter |
| Central Apennines | 6 summer | 1 winter winter |
National avalanche bulletin and historical archive: AINEVA · Mountain emergency: 112 · Refuges and sections: CAI
Each Alpine region holds an official catastrophe of the paths available online: they are the same tracks that end up on the signs, with number of the path, times and state of travelability. I am the source to use to plan, along with a 1:25,000 paper card to carry in the backpack.
Ten places worth the alarm at dawn, region by region, with the hour and the exact point from which you see. The photographs come from Wikimedia Commons, published with free licenses: under each image there is a link to the original page with author and license. The last card is an illustration, because at night in van the photo nobody does it.
The most recognizable pyramid of the Alps seen from Cervinia: on wind days the flag cloud is detached from the crest.
All year · early morning, before the thermal clouds
The first national park in Italy, born in 1922 to save the stambecco: long valleys, moraines and retreating glaciers.
June–September · morning, for wildlife
Still water, larches and stone huts: in October the larchy turns orange, in winter is the kingdom of snowshoes.
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The most beautiful granite valley in Italy: meadows, smooth boulders and walls that have made the history of climbing.
May–October · morning, before the sun warms the wells
The Cimon della Pala reflexes in the pozza in front of the hut: perhaps the most imitated dolomitic postcard in the world.
June–October · sunrise · Passo Rolle
The time when the lake is still and reflects the Croda del Becco, before the buses and boats arrive.
June–October · dawn · north bank
The largest plateau in Europe with the Sassolungo group in front: in winter it becomes pink twenty minutes before sunset.
All year · last hour of light
From path 101 to Forcella Lavaredo the three towers are lit for about ten minutes at dawn, then the light is flattened.
End of June–September · 30 min before dawn · north side
The village-sanctuary at 1,790 m where Latin, Slavic and German cultures meet, surrounded by the Alpi Giulie.
June–October · walking up from CamporossoVan parked, overturned seat and the Milky Way above the Dolomites: one of the less polluted skies of the eastern Alps.
New moon · summer · only in the pitches where the stop is allowedReal-time dramas: foto-webcam.eu (high resolution, historical archive) · Roundabout ( 360° panicles) · webcams Dolomites · webcam South Tyrol
What it really needs, with the indicative prices of the new in Italy. The rule of expenditure is simple: you invest on what touches the body and on what saves your life — boots, shell, ARTVA — and you save on everything else, at least at the beginning.
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The minimum for an E-type trip
Non-negotiable: all certified
The hardware sets have an expiration and weight limit of the user: they buy new, never second hand, and they replace after a fall.
The highest expenditure, but lasts ten years
Before buying: rent a complete set for two or three exits and take a course. The right material depends on how skiing, not reviews.
The cheapest entrance to the winter mountain
Tip the items while preparing the backpack: the list remains saved, so you will find it ready for the next exit.
The foot at the end of the day is swollen as after three hours of walking. Try with the socks you will really use and walk on the downhill platform: the finger should not touch the tip.
Yes to backpacks, sticks, batteries, skis and skins. No a set from ferrata, helmets, ropes, harnesses and ARTVA old generation: you don't know their history and they are exactly what you have to save.
A ski touring set is offered at €30–45 per day in the Alpine resorts. Two weekend rental costs less than a wrong purchase from 1500 €.
April and May for winter material, September and October for the Summer. That's where we buy shells and skis, not in December.
The Italian Alps in winter are three different worlds: the slopes of the great ski resorts, the bottom rings in the valley floor, and the off-piste that leads to ski touring. Many pass from one to another in two seasons: it makes sense to know where to end.
| Understanding | Where? | Pistes | Why are you going? |
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| Dolomiti Superski | Trentino-Alto Adige, Veneto | ~1,200 km | A ski pass for 12 areas. The Sellaronda is the most famous ski tour in the world, the Sellaronda Ski Tour ends in the day. |
| Cervinia – Zermatt | Aosta Valley / Valais | ~ 360 km | High altitude and guaranteed snow, with the crossing in Switzerland under the Matterhorn and summer skiing on the glacier of the Plateau Rosà. |
| Monterosa Ski Ski | Valle d'Aosta / Piedmont | ~180 km | Three valleys connected and the most serious freeride in Italy. Here you go naturally from the track to the off-piste with the guide. |
| Via Lattea | Cozy Alps · TO | ~ 400 km | Sestriere, Sauze, Claviere to Montgenèvre in France: a lot of kilometers an hour from Turin. |
| Madonna di Campiglio | Trentino | ~150 km | Wide and well-kept slopes between Brenta and Adamello, with the black Canalone Miramonti in the centre of the village. |
| Livigno | Alta Valtellina · SO | ~115 km | High altitude, long season, reference snowpark and extradoganal area: equipment at lower prices. |
| Bormio | Alta Valtellina · SO | ~50 km | The Stelvio, one of the world's toughest World Cup descents: 1,010 m of elevation gain in one blow, and downstream thermal baths. |
| Courmayeur | Valle d'Aosta | ~100 km | Skiing under Mont Blanc and access to the Vallée Blanche with guide: 20 km downhill to Chamonix. |
Skipass daily in high season: indicating 60–90 € in large areas, less in smaller areas and with multi-day or seasonal formulas. Prices and opening dates are checked on official sites.
From the third day onwards the daily rate drops considerably: buying six consecutive days costs much less than six daily dissolved.
Almost all areas apply a dynamic discount to those who buy in advance weeks, and avoid the queue to cashiers.
Keycard support costs 5 € refundable: preserve it, recharges online in the following years.
In Italy civil liability is mandatory for skiers: often you add to the ski pass for a few euros per day, check if your policy already covers it.
About 80 km of rings in the Park of Gran Paradiso, with the floor of Sant'Orso and Valnontey between the icefalls. The most beautiful in Italy for many landowners.
The track on the old railway between the Dolomites, seat of the World Cup. Almost flat track, suitable for beginners as well.
The center of the Italian bottom: 150 km of slopes, the Centre of the Fund of Lake Tesero and the Marcialonga at the end of January.
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A CAI ski touring course or two days with an alpine guide teach the evaluation of the slope, conversion and self-surrection in the avalanche. It's the investment that makes it more.
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A search is carried out in the free trial camps that many locations breed on the track. Under the avalanche you have 15 minutes: the gesture must be automatic.
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Punta della Rossa, Monte Sodadura, Cima Bocche: large slopes, little exposure, quick return. You can find them in the winter section of the routes.
Avalanche bills: AINEVA collects those of all the Italian Alpine regions. You read the night before and the morning of the trip, always.
Sleep at the starting car park and attack the path at six in the morning, without waking up on the highway: it is the real advantage of the van in the mountains, much more than the photo with the open door. Here is where to rent it, where to legally stop and three itineraries already ready.
7 days · ~380 km · June–September
From Bolzano to Alpe di Siusi, then Val Gardena, Passo Sella and Passo Pordoi, Cortina with Tre Cime, Val Pusteria and Braies, return to Val Badia.
5 days · ~260 km · June– October
From Aosta to Valsavarenche, then Cogne, the Colle del Nivolet from the Piedmontese side and finally the Val Ferret under Mont Blanc.
6 days · ~320 km · July–September
From Bormio to Passo dello Stelvio, descent into Val Venosta, Livigno and finally Valtellina to Val Masino.
In Italy the stopover the motorhome is allowed wherever the vehicle is allowed, provided that it is not allowed campsites: no tables, chairs, veranda, stabilizers feet or drains to the ground. Many Alpine municipalities still prohibit the night stop by order, and South Tyrol is the most severe area: check the signs at the entrance to the parking lot. Free camping is forbidden almost everywhere in national parks and protected areas.
In winter: winter tyres or chains on board mandatory on most alpine roads from 15 November to 15 April, stationary heating lit only with adequate ventilation, water in the tanks freezing below zero.
You come in the evening, sleep, leave early. Leaving the van all day occupying two places in a crowded starting parking lot is the fastest way to get the ban order the following year.
Please note in advance the camper service along the route: at high altitude there are no. Grey is not discharged into the mountain graves, it ends in the streams.
Sleeping above 2,000 m on the first night can give bad headaches and bad sleep. Better get up to the pass in the morning and sleep at the bottom of the valley.
Rent 90 €, diesel 25 €, parking area 15–25 €: a week in two is around 900–1,200 € all inclusive, often less than seven nights in the mountain hut or hotel.
What has changed in recent years for those who walk in the mountains. Access rules and quotations are reviewed season by season: links lead to official sources, check them before getting in the car.
The analysis of the Italian Alpine Club returns on the same factors as ever: disproportionate itineraries compared to training, late departures, poor weather reading, and an increase of occasional visitors attracted by viral destinations. The summer remains the period with more interventions of the Alpine Rescue, and a very significant proportion of the accidents in hiking takes place Downhill, with accumulated fatigue. The updated numbers are in the annual report of the CNSAS. official data · CNSAS and CAI
In the central months of the summer the entrance to Val di Braies with motor vehicles is regulated by digital booking in the middle of the day, with automatic reading of the plates at the mouth of the valley. Access is free on foot, by bike and by public bus line from the valley floor. Dates, times and rates change every year: prags.bz and Province of Bolzano.
The model Braies has extended: road of the Three Peaks for a fee with parking lot often saturated by 8, closures with alternate plates or obligatory shuttles on some steps and in different side valleys (Val Fiscalina, Alpe di Siusi, Val Venegia, Colle del Nivolet on summer weekends). Practical rule: arrive early or use the bus, and check the site of the commune or the resort the evening before.
The norm on safety in winter sports (d.lgs. 40/2021) imposes to those who practice ski touring and hiking on open snowy terrain — therefore also many snowshoeers — to equip themselves with research apparatus in avalanche, shovel and probe. The CAI asked for clarifications on the exact perimeter of the norm, but the practical principle does not change: if you go where you can download snow, the equipment serves, and you should know how to use. In-depth study
The Single European Number 112 applies everywhere on the Alps and automatically transmits the location from recent smartphones. The CAI offers GeoResQ, tracking app and rescue request, free for members. In South Tyrol and in different regions the regional emergency app is also widespread: install it and try it first of the trip, not on the path without field.
For mountain huts along the high streets, summer reservations open in spring and places in the classic stages end in a few weeks. Almost everywhere you pay half board, the sleeping bag is mandatory, the connection is poor and in some cases you only accept cash. Distinguishing without warning is the fastest way to keep a blank place in a full structure: a phone call is enough.
The glacial retreat and the degradation of the permafrost are changing normal approaches and routes on the highest peaks: ice traits become unstable dry, cracks discovered earlier in the season, increase of the fall rocks in the hot hours. Even for the hiker something changes: to learn about the conditions of the day is worth more than any written report years ago.
Small things that no guide writes on the cover and that change the day.
At the moment of the summit you consumed half the energies but only one third of the risks. Give yourself an hour of reversal: if at that hour you are not at the top, go back. Deciding it first removes the discussion at the wrong time.
The first twenty minutes must seem too slow to you: it's time for the body to get into rhythm. The strong part stops ten times, the slow part arrives first.
In group you walk at the speed of those who struggle more, and that person stands in front, not in the tail. No one waits at the crossroads. He expects first.
Small regular sips, 400–600 ml per hour if it is hot. The thirst comes when you are already in deficit, and dehydration occurs as cramps, headaches and wrong decisions.
It is where the Alpine Rescue records a large part of distortions and falls: stanche legs, rocks rolling, desire to make soon. Short pass, soft knees, elongated sticks of 5–10 cm.
Half of the bladders arises from the wrong stocking: no cotton, flat seams, right size. And the new shoes do not open on a long path.
White-red flag with the number of the path, repeated at sight. If you've been walking for more than ten minutes without seeing one, you've probably lost the path: go back to the last sure sign instead of looking forward.
Download offline maps and bring a powerbank, but also hold a card. A phone that turns off at −5 °C is not a theoretical hypothesis.
Also for two hours of trail in June. A delay, a distortion or an improvised fog turn twilight into a serious problem without light.
Leave your boots at the entrance, bring a sleeping bag liner, keep quiet after 22:00 and confirm your booking. If you will arrive late, call the hut: otherwise the manager may worry and call mountain rescue.
Rich gates, cattle protection dogs wandered quietly and without screaming, wastes brought down, no drones over the pastures. Flowers and minerals remain where they are.
Guide times are average. Register your exits below for a few months: you will discover your real rhythm in meters of altitude per hour, and that is the number with which to plan the most demanding trips.
Record every exit, summer or winter: the diary calculates your real rhythm in meters of elevation gain per hour and compares it with the reference time of the route. Already from the first recorded output, get your own personal coefficient and apply it to all the path boards: if you are faster than the reference — and many are — estimates will adjust to your step instead of remaining the prudent driving ones.
Drag here GPX files — export a Strava, Garmin Connect, Komoot or Wikiloc task — or choose files. I read duration, distance and difference of real level, I recognize the path from the starting point and fill the diary alone. The files remain on your device: they are not loaded anywhere.
On Strava: open the → menu “...” → Export GPX. You can also ask for full export from your profile and drag all files here together.
Trips that you have already done: write only the total time (format 2:30) and press forward. They need to calibrate your step.
The three questions you ask half ascent: how much is missing, how much I put, what time does. Start the trip at the start of the path and the phone responds on its own: use GPS, which also works without field, and compare what you have already done with the route data. In the end, it saves the output in the diary with a touch.
The GPS remains active while the page is open: keep the screen on or reopen the file to resume. No data comes out of the phone.
Hourly forecast on the starting point of the chosen route, from the Open-Meteo open service. Download it before leaving: it remains saved and reread it without field, with the time of the last update.
The offline copy of TREKANDO (trekando.html) is a single file that does not need servers or connection: once saved on the phone it works by air, in shelter and at the bottom of a no-field valley. The only things that require network are photos and maps: without connection to their place see the drawing illustrations, and everything else — routes, times, computers, diary, checklist — continue to work.
With the icon on the Home screen, full screen and without browser bar. Open it. trekando.com from the phone and tap the button below, or use Share → “Add to Home” on iPhone. From there on it works offline on its own, without network.
The installation appears when the site is open from a web address.
The paths are calculated on the OpenStreetMap network when you open the map the first time, and are saved. If you already know that where you go there is no field, download them all now: a few seconds on the route, then they work without network.
The downloaded file also contains the already recorded outputs: open it on the phone and find your personal coefficient.
iPhone and iPad
Android Android
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| Function | Offline | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Map of 172 routes, data, routes, departures | Yes | I'm in the file. |
| Search, filters, distances from your city | Yes | The calculation is all local. |
| Time calculator, skipass, checklist, diary | Yes | Even in air mode. |
| Altimatory profiles and landscape illustrations | Yes | They are drawn from the file itself. |
| Photos of the landscapes | No | They come from Wikimedia: offline the illustration appears. |
| Built-in map and external links | No | They need a network. For the mountain, download the offline maps of your navigation app first. |
| typographical characteristics | Yes | Offline the site uses system characters: it changes appearance, not content. |
With a TREKANDO account the diary, your step, the tracks, the paths drawn and the checklist remain same on phone and computer. It only serves for this: without account everything works the same, saved on this device.
You don't know where, look. The areas in photography, and under all routes one by one.
The diary in the form of feeds: each output with the track, photos, numbers and comparison with the reference time. The photos remain on the device where you add them; with the account you can also post them on the itinerary card.
Six days in Campitello, or a week in Casentino: TREKANDO will build days according to the weather, your training and to whom there is with you — trekking, a quiet day, a bike — and will reorganize them if the weather changes.
Incoming
The day-to-day program is not yet ready, so here you can't find a form to fill in. In the meantime, you're already organizing the single day:
Choose a locality and see what's around, meanwhile:
English translation. Place names follow local signage. For route planning, check the sources and current conditions.