Safety

What we vet before a tour ships

Every tour on Tagmount is walked and timed by its Tour Author multiple times, in at least two different seasons, before we publish it. The Tour Author is always a professional mountain guide or equivalent local expert — IFMGA-, UIMLA-, or national-body-certified — who could lead the route live but has chosen to write it up for self-guided travellers instead.

We don't list routes we haven't stood on ourselves. If a Tour Author can't vouch for a section in current condition, it doesn't go out.

What you get in the pack

The moment you purchase, you unlock:

• The full Tour Handbook — hour-by-hour, written in the first person, with pacing, route-finding notes, weather playbook, and personal shelter hints.
• The GPX track — preloaded into your preferred offline app (Mapy.cz, Gaia GPS, Komoot, etc.).
• An interactive map with every alert point plotted: protected sections, water sources, reliable shelter, decision gates for bad weather.
• A seven-day weather forecast for the start coordinate, updated hourly against Open-Meteo.
• Live Guide access — text or call the Tour Author, the night before and the day of. You'll know whose phone you're calling if something goes sideways.

What we will not claim

You are doing this tour on your own. We don't put a guide in the field with you, and we don't guarantee outcomes. Mountains and cities have hazards that cannot be engineered away.

What we do, honestly, is reduce the avoidable risks:

• We choose Tour Authors who've put in the hours on the specific route.
• We surface decision information — weather, shelter, bail-out gates — before you commit to a section.
• We name the risks in plain language in the Handbook: the clock rule on exposed ridges, the rain plan, the lightning plan, where the signal drops, where the last reliable water is.
• We keep group-size decisions entirely in your hands.

The final call — to go, to turn around, to wait it out — is always yours, in the terrain, in real weather, with real legs.

If something goes wrong

If you're on the route and things are deteriorating, follow the Handbook's bail-out plan for the section you're in. Every tour ships with at least one named shelter point and a signal-coverage note.

Out of mountain range, local emergency numbers are always authoritative:

• European Union emergency: 112 (works in every EU country, including from roaming SIMs).
• Mountain rescue, Slovenia: 112 will connect you to Gorska reševalna služba (GRS).
• Mountain rescue, Austria / Germany / Switzerland: 140 (AT), 112 (DE/CH).

Your Tour Author is a second point of contact — not a replacement for emergency services, but someone local who knows the route and can brief responders on where you are likely to be.