The trails for which authorization must be processed are no. 7 Montaña Blanca-La Rambleta; no. 9: Teide-Pico Viejo-Mirador de las Narices del Teide, no. 23 Regatones Negros and no. 28 Chafarí
People must wear mandatory equipment consisting of mountain footwear, long trousers or long mountain tights and a warm jacket; gloves and a hat; and water or hydrating liquids The Tenerife Cabildo began on Saturday 30.11.24 to carry out access controls on the trails that provide access on foot to Teide after the new regulation came into force. This is a pioneering measure in Spain that will ensure the safety of people and the conservation of the Teide National Park, declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO since 2007. Specifically, the trails for which authorization must be processed are No. 7 Montaña Blanca-La Rambleta; No. 9: Teide-Pico Viejo-Mirador de las Narices del Teide, No. 23 Regatones Negros and No. 28 Chafarí. People must also bring mandatory equipment consisting of mountain footwear, long trousers or long mountain tights and a warm jacket; gloves and a hat; and water or hydrating liquids. It is also recommended to bring a mobile phone with a charge, a headlamp or flashlight with spare batteries, sun protection (cap, sunglasses and sun cream), a thermal blanket, energy foods and a whistle. The Minister for the Natural Environment, Sustainability, and Security and Emergency, Blanca Pérez, and the island director of the Natural Environment, Pedro Millán, visited the control point located on trail no. 7 Montaña Blanca, where Juan Domingo Pérez and Maribel García, from the Sports, Cultural, Recreational and Environmental Association and Mountain and Hiking Club ‘La Senda del Bentor’, were also present. Blanca Pérez indicated that “we are making a great effort to preserve the most important natural space we have in Tenerife and, surely, not everyone will like it, but I think it is our obligation to make this effort to preserve this space and to guarantee the safety of people. We have taken these measures initially and we will modulate them. We must bear in mind that it is a pioneering measure at a national level and that we do not have a similar experience in this regulation because here we are not prohibiting climbing but regulating access,” Pérez added. For his part, Pedro Millán stressed the need to comply with the rules “both when booking the climb and when it comes to complying with the equipment. We are talking about high mountains, where temperatures are below zero degrees and we cannot allow rescue teams to be acting every day due to carelessness. Obviously, if there is an accident, people are attended to, but in recent weeks we had reached a practically unsustainable situation of having to carry out mass evacuations every day of people who were climbing without the appropriate equipment.”
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NEW REGULATION FOR ACCESS TO TEIDE ON FOOT Climbing conditions. – Visitors must be aware that they will be undertaking a high mountain activity, and therefore, it is mandatory to register online in the TENERIFE ON application. In this case, access to the trails will be subject to a prior communication/authorization regime through the reservation center of the TENERIFE ON platform. Once the reservation/permit document has been issued, it will be printed on paper or saved on the mobile device and must be carried with you to show it to the surveillance authorities, present at the entrance control points to the trails. This authorization only allows the route from its starting point to the upper base of the cable car (La Rambleta) and return on foot. That is, it does not include the ascent to the Teide peak or the descent in the cable car. The accesses that will be controlled will be the following: PNT 07 Trail: Montaña Blanca – La Rambleta. PNT 09 Trail: Teide – Pico Viejo – Mirador de las Narices del Teide. PNT 23 Trail: Regatones Negros. PNT 28 Trail: Chafarí. Mandatory equipment. – Users, hikers and mountaineers must be provided with a minimum mandatory equipment, which must be shown to the personnel in charge of control, and access will be prohibited for anyone who does not comply with it. The mandatory equipment is: 1.- Mountain footwear. 2.- Long trousers or long mountain tights and a warm jacket 3.- Gloves and a hat (especially in winter) 4.- Water or hydrating liquids Also, and for the safety of the people who carry out the activity, it is recommended that you also bring: 1.- A charged mobile phone 2.- A headlamp or flashlight with spare batteries 3.- Sun protection (cap, sunglasses and sunscreen) 4.- Thermal blanket 5.- Energy foods 6.- Whistle The mandatory equipment has been supervised by the Special Mountain Intervention Rescue Group (GREIM) of the Civil Guard and the Prevention, Fire Extinction and Rescue Consortium of the Island of Tenerife
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Control and surveillance. – Control and surveillance will be carried out by park staff 24 hours a day at certain checkpoints that will require compliance with the regulations and conditions, both in terms of mandatory equipment and the necessary and essential authorisations. Fines and sanctions.- Persons who fail to comply with the regulations may be fined 600 euros. To this amount must be added, where applicable, the rescue fees of the Canary Islands Government or the Consortium for Prevention, Extinction of Fires and Rescue of the Island of Tenerife, which range from 2,000 to 12,000 euros. Establishment of a maximum quota, by time slots.- A maximum quota of people who can access the mountain will be established, which has been provisionally established at 300, divided into three time slots (at a rate of 100 people per slot). The schedules are as follows: From 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. From 4:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. From 12:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. This system may vary depending on its implementation. Companies and guides who are legal and qualified to take groups to high mountains will have a reserved quota to be able to carry out their activity. Active tourism companies will have 20% of the places available. Limitations and prohibitions on climbing.- The situations related to the weather conditions will be taken into account. Regarding this, in a normal situation, that is, without any alerts, users will be governed by the normal conditions of the visit, which are the mandatory authorization for a time slot plus the verification control of the equipment at the entrance of the trail. Also in official alert situations for Adverse Meteorological Phenomena (PMA) declared by the Government of the Canary Islands in application of the PEFMA (Pre-alert, Alert and Maximum Alert) and which affect the area of the aforementioned trails of the Teide National Park (due to rain, snow, wind and/or storms). In Pre-alert conditions, access to the general public will be prohibited between 4:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m. while the declaration is in force, avoiding nighttime hours of stay in the mountains. On the other hand, in alert and maximum alert situations, access to the general public will be prohibited and the trails will be closed 24 hours a day while the declaration is in force. It is also worth noting that, due to adverse weather conditions, even if they have not been warned or alerted (mainly due to the presence of ice, snow, wind and frost) or due to any other circumstance that makes it impracticable or without minimum safety guarantees to travel along the paths leading up to or ascending the peak of Teide, the National Park Management may prohibit access to said paths by closing them for as long as necessary. This decision includes not allowing access to those people who have previously obtained permission and/or authorization. Specific signage. – The regulations governing and controlling access to Teide include the strategic placement of signage in languages of all conditions at the beginning of the different paths, warning at the same time of the corresponding sanction if they are violated. Differentiated cases. – In the conditions mentioned above, federated mountaineers and active tourism companies will receive special and differentiated treatment. Mountaineers who are members of the federation must justify their ability, have the appropriate and precise means and may request a special permit when the terrain is covered with ice or snow. As for active tourism companies, they must be legally constituted and recognised by the regional Administration and have mountain guides who are authorised and qualified to guide in the high mountains of the Teide National Park under the required conditions. Where there will be no exceptions is in the mandatory registration of people who want to access the Peak. All must comply with the authorisation requirement and the required equipment. Access to the Teide peak from La Rambleta.- Currently, access can be obtained from La Rambleta (upper part of the Teide Cable Car, 3,555 metres) to
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the Teide peak (3,718 metres) via the Telesforo Bravo trail. To do so, people who wish to undertake this route must process the relevant permit, as has been done until now. All information about the procedures to be carried out can be found on the website
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