Tourist and other signs

To appreciate the work that the Czech Tourists’ Club does for us, all we need to do is jump to neighboring Saxony and find out that their infographics are sometimes funny, but on the other hand, they are actually the simplest and most confusing, so I recommend packing a bigger snack because you can easily wander around more than you wanted.

The stories of travelers who discover the world through a method we call wandering speak similarly.

Whenever I find myself in a similar situation, I remember the old trapper’s maxim that if you don’t know, it’s best to follow the stream that flows into another stream, and when you reach the river, it will reliably lead you to a town.

Speaking of old trapper advice, I can’t help but think of the paragraphs from Karl May’s books where Winnetou and Old Shatterhand say goodbye and promise to meet again under this tree in six months. How they got it right is hard to say, but they may have used Indian markings, or tramp marks.

I always tried to understand this system, but I failed because, again, it was not unified and systematic.

On the contrary, we may come across forestry signs on our travels that have the system.

Of course, we can also use our own signs, but experience tells me that even if I mark the route this way, I will forget what each sign means next time, so it is still worth relying on tourist signs: they use four colors. Long-distance or ridge routes are marked in red. The blue sign will guide you along more important routes, the green color is for local routes, and the yellow is for connecting shortcuts and shorter paths.

I like shortcuts the most, so I’m going for yellow.