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In addition to a smartphone and a GPS app loaded with the right maps you need the route itself. This is available for free, stage by stage, on the Cicerone website at www.cicerone.co.uk/804/gpx.

If you haven’t used the GPS facility don’t leave it to the last minute before your trip to find out how it works. Smartphone GPS doesn’t use ‘data roaming’ so you don’t need to have that facility turned on. The battery on the smartphone should be adequate for a day’s walking particularly if you remember to turn off any features that you’re not using. (Phones permanently searching for a wi-fi connection are consuming a lot of energy.) If you are nervous about battery life then take a supplementary battery and recharge the smartphone as needed or, if walking with someone else with a smartphone, have a duplicate version of the GPS as backup.

The central Karwendel Ridge

Using printed maps

Some walkers will want the additional security of paper maps (despite the extra weight) and printed maps will provide more context for the journey. Acquiring a comprehensive set of maps for a route travelling through three countries is not, however, a straightforward task and there is no single publisher supplying maps for the whole route.