Smaller font says that the community is split between T1 and T2. I actually think this splits are quite useful as they show the boundaries.
It looks like hte picture with tha path cutting a slope entering a stone field will be a boundary between T2 and T3: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/poll-sac-scale-mountain-hiking-or-demanding-mountain-hiking/121214
We should indeed have a poll about this one too:
I rewrote the first sentence of this paragraph as follows:
It is recommended that OSM tagging mirror the official grading in Switzerland, where hiking trails are maintained and signposted by quango associations. The colours used follow their own grading. See German French Italian Version. The 2023 revision of the SAC Mountain Hiking Scale specifies a blurred matching:
If I get it right, SAC scale is only used in Switzerland and Austria and others have their own systems? I do not understand the sentence “The colours used follow their own grading.” and when I clicked on the links, they do not make much sense to me (I understand French well, so it is not a language issue). Is it supposed to mean that the quango associations assign the grades in their own capacity? The links do not specify T2, T5 and T6, If I looked properly. I would vote for not including them and instead have the blurring picture only as it looks more straightforward while acknowledging the blurrines of any classification.
Oh yes, definitely. But as of now, we “require” “mountaneering boots”. Apart from glacier travel, aby trail running shoes will do I think.
I think the following holds for most people (but not more):
Strolling - anything, even flipflops will do (you will survive hiking too but might suffer a bit).
Mountain_hiking and above - rubber soles, shoes meant for hiking really recommended
Glacier travel - shoes compatible with crampons. But not more.
Yes, but trail runners are fairly common I would say (depends on the elevation I guess, I usually go to Austrian Alps that are closer and lower).