In general, a carry on slopes should be avoided for environmental issues, are areas in itself highly degradable and difficult to recover precisely because of its instability, and if we add the impact of traffic in persons, environmental degradation will be even more pronounced .

If no choice but to carry through an area of steep, it should be (as happens with other rocky areas) very careful to warn of falling rocks generated by our progress, telling our partners.

In the ups and downs, it will be almost forced displacement or running zigzag or diagonal, otherwise not only tire us more (each way, back down a few) but the falling stone will be much higher and cumulative (the latter would receive all the previous rise, and the first of those preceding it in fall) and ecological degradation of the land would also be more substantial. Regroup in such cases should be changing direction to avoid the rocks falling on group members who are further down the zigzag line.

In places where the zigzag progression is not possible because the terrain features (chimneys, canals, etc..)’d Better leave the group together, to avoid as much as possible that the stones fall off take rate and can not be bypassed.

In very unstable, do not rule out the passing of one, and even make a rope or some other method of climbing (using nuts, etc.)..

Do not walk ahead of the slope . What forces you to walk in diagonal or zigzag, and forever (especially if it was not possible to go zigzag) must keep a safe distance, enough so that if someone falls, do not drag it to the rest group, and can be stopped or avoided and then rescued by his teammates. Raise or lower diagonal is also more relaxed, and causes less impact to the terrain and our joints.

No to march in a straight line for the same reason why security must be done along diagonals.

If the step is dangerous or risky, we must pass it to one, with assurance or assistance from other group members. The guide may optionally indicate to other people group where you step or the way forward from a position safe or advanced. Some recommend that the Guide last drop in these cases to fulfill this function, but if there is a second guide (tail or “broom”) would not be necessary, and if the road is known only to him, or is complicated by other issues objective (cracks, snowfields that involves carving stairs, etc.). it is not possible not to be recommended.

Pay close attention to the safety distance between group members, which must be greater the higher probability of falling rocks or landslides, and (in turn and for the same reason) to steeper the slope, whether we as if we are going down. The reason: to give time to the partner who preceded us (down) or above us (up) to avoid falling rocks due to our departure. We must warn of falling rocks, especially on the downhills, when you see them before us may not come.

We will try to step on the same sites selected by the Guide is first, and that elected them for something (most stable stones or rocks), and will be the more experienced person to do so.

Crossing a fast one in an area where the rocks are shifting or threaten to collapse, falling rocks. Of course, these sections should be short and have no major problems, but should be avoided or surround.

• The breaks or stops grouping should be in comfortable places, that is, less dense vegetation. Typically, the first guide that will be forced to make frequent stops to avoid losing sight of the group, and managed to regroup when necessary.
  
• The group must be linked up to the point of not losing sight of the front, but far enough apart not to get hit with the branches of the partner going forward.
• If for whatever any member of the group is delayed because you have a problem (broken clothes, backpack attachment, loss of equipment, hurts with vegetation, etc.). Must immediately notify the person above, and this advise the guide leads the group to stop the march momentarily to address the problem at hand.

Therefore it is important to recognize the limits beyond which the risk exceeds climb that we tackle, and passes and the border of the climb. To determine this we must consider, among other things, the inclination of the slope, rock type (hard or soft), the length of the climb (size or number of “long” [1]), our physical level and technical implementation of climbing shoes to relocate (or cats climbing shoes, mountain, normal, etc.). along with the consequences of a fall (can we stop it or not? be fatal?).

• Post is not impossible, but degrades much this type of soil, in addition to fatigue (each step is small collapses beneath our feet that make us somewhat to above).

  The specific technique for climbing steep terrain or escaped requiring the use of props with their hands, basically summarized in the following points:

• As always, keep the center of gravity so that its axis falls on the center of the points of support (feet). The feet are spaced about the shoulder height while moving, with a width not less than the hips while we are static.
• Support your weight with your legs, never with arms. The arms-hands are used to improve balance, and to make specific progress in any case we can not perform based on the use of leg strength.

• Post is not impossible, but degrades much this type of soil, in addition to fatigue (each step is small collapses beneath our feet that make us somewhat to above).
• Lower when the stones are small, although it is easy (can be sliding, digging their heels, especially on boulders boys) also impacts seriously on this ground, eroding it too much.
  
• Therefore, avoid the run downhill if possible.
• If used also have to make sure that other people or groups do not pass through the place where they will drop the product of our miniderrumbes stones. Even if no one is down, but if there is a path, street, path, etc..’d Better find an alternative route that does not get dirty.
• Avoid large stones bet on the girls: they can slip under our weight.
• Also avoid increase or decrease in a straight line, not to precipitate rocks, if we as a group.
• When braking on the descents (kicking or skidding, digging the heels of the boots), do it by stepping or jumping to the side so that the small avalanche of rocks that we still do not fully reach us.

• You can go from rock to rock, provided management have some balance, and choose the larger rocks, as close as possible to each other and apparently more stable. If done well, is as close to normal walking in terms of continuity, and even go faster downhill when the inertia help.
  
• To achieve this, we must try to form a mental tour of the next steps, overlooking the most logical path before taking it out (work of the Guide should go in groups, and logical way that the rest should be limited to follow).
• In case you have to jump to join two rocks, one must pay attention to the buffer, and do not try to lead a very full backpack (risk of ankle sprains, knee, etc.).. If the stone varies under our feet, we must leave quickly jumping to another.
• If necessary, we may use your hands to help. A cane or an ice ax can be useful to have more balance, especially if carried considerable weight to the back.
• We must never stand with another person in the same rock.

• Avoiding or surround if you can travel the other way without vegetation or less closed vegetation, even if the alternative is longer (because usually, in time, shorter).
  
• If you cross them, we must wear appropriate clothing (resistant) or consider likely to “destroy” that we wear, depending on the length of the voyage and the type of vegetation. In this sense, clothes RisTop system (system antiroturas or ripstop) system initially used in military clothing, but now extended to all types of tissues that need due to their demand, greater resistance: clothing for outdoor activities , backpacks, tents or tents, balloons, parachutes and gliders, etc.
• Will have to move looking for areas of less closed, “joining” (if possible) to identify clear to the distance from higher terrain areas. These rocks can be clear or prominent changes in vegetation (meadows, wetlands or grasslands, for example). The straight line is often impossible or ineffective. In some cases even be possible to move (literally) over the trees, such as when creeping across beech forests in the Araucania and Patagonia.
• Avoid bushes or set of thorny bushes for obvious reasons. These are directly impassable dangerous.
• Can be useful to follow streams to cross these places, because the water will already have opened the way for us.
• If no man-marked trails to follow, may be proved by marked paths for animals, given that these paths are often erratic and can stop or from areas with water, burrows or food. Well adapted to beings in general of little stature, and therefore impassable at times for tall people or large backpacks
• It is usually best to go at the middle of the slope, if possible, as the vegetation is often concentrated in low areas where water or moisture is more abundant.

• Avoid very wet slopes if no other alternative, if the place would fall if skating is very high, dangerous, and so on. Or if it is raining.
  
• Push to the entire surface of the shoe as possible.
• Marching in zigzag.
• Keep a running speed restrained.
• Hold the vegetation where possible, steep slopes, where necessary climbing or down climbing to maintain a better balance.

It will be useful then to know the types of snow, because each has a feature that involve a type of foot traffic or another. In any case, the key to know is that a patch of snow is more or less hazardous depending on its hardness, the slope of the ground cover, texture and relief of its surface, and the consequences involving a fall on it. Thus, one should bear in mind that:

• The hardness or consistency of the snow, regardless of type, will vary throughout the day depending on the heat that is exposed due to sunlight it receives.
• We should not move (if we do not have crampons) the footprint of our footwear is not marked in the snow (snow very hard, like ice, capable of falling).
• We must not cross a snowfield in the pending case involving a serious fall injury or certain death, if they have no means of assurance. This means that we should go for it if, in case of slip, will not have time, type of snow or enough room for (for fall) autodetención maneuvering (on the other hand, it is mandatory to know).
• Know the basic maneuver autodenteción have practiced before sloping snowfields transit. That is, turn around to know as we fall back and get on all fours, clutching hands and legs to stop our fall. If wearing ax or ax, will need to know autodetención maneuvers with this tool, or else take it without the leash on, to let go when dropped.
• We carry all the body covered with clothing, especially your hands with heavy gloves and long pants legs: if they fall, snow can burn bare skin like asphalt (in fact, as glass does, because its structure is the same as glass).
• When you cross, there should be (as always) the center of gravity over our feet, not out of this line through the middle of the hip. This means we do not have to bend over (back and hip must be extended, right) too far to the mountain to the valley (except when needed to climb using your hands, hands with gloves due to snow), which could cause us to lose balance due to the weight of your backpack or loss of a foothold respectively.