Timeline for When hiking, why is the right of way given to people going up?
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| Jul 6, 2021 at 15:48 | comment | added | Bob Stein | This answer omits the best reason: safety. More important than ease, courtesy, or rhythm. On a steep trail, downhill is more dangerous, so passing is safer when only the uphill hiker is in motion. | |
| Jan 26, 2017 at 0:36 | vote | accept | user19652 | ||
| Dec 24, 2016 at 14:57 | comment | added | Filip Dupanović | @fgysin the same rule applies to countries in former Yugoslavia. I always assumed this was the norm everywhere. | |
| Dec 22, 2016 at 11:57 | comment | added | fgysin | @OddDeer: Link to the official Swiss law in German (though on the right you can switch to French/Italian also) admin.ch/opc/de/classified-compilation/19620246/index.html See Art. 38, Abs. 1. (There are also rules that say that longer/heavier vehicles have right of way in Art. 9, Abs. 2, which can overrule this, so it generally only holds for vehicles of the same category.) | |
| Dec 22, 2016 at 10:01 | comment | added | OddDeer | @fgysin Do you have a link for that? I've never heard of it in Germany :) | |
| Dec 22, 2016 at 9:49 | comment | added | fgysin | Last but not least: this is also how right-of-way is handled in road traffic (at least in Switzerland): the driver going downhill will have to give way. | |
| Dec 22, 2016 at 7:31 | comment | added | Guran | Good answer. One might emphasis " everything else being equal" a bit. The hiker going uphill might appriciate a small stop, but not to be forced to stop. So the principle is not really "Uphill hiker first" but "Uphill hiker gets to decide." | |
| Dec 21, 2016 at 11:09 | comment | added | Polygnome | Very nice and complete answer! especially with good references and not speculation, as the others. | |
| Dec 21, 2016 at 7:54 | history | edited | OddDeer | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 21, 2016 at 7:27 | history | answered | OddDeer | CC BY-SA 3.0 |