Yeah I must admit, the title misleading, but this time track file, GPX waypoint and so on and so forth have nothing to do nothing, but still traces of it, or animal tracks!
Walking, in addition to being a healthy physical activity, and especially the possibility of living in nature, understand its beauty and enjoy them with the intention of enjoy all that it offers us, so once we leave aside because the gps now follow other "tracks".
La montagna d’inverno nonostante le condizioni climatiche non siano proprio più favorevoli, è ricca di vita e di tracce lasciate da chi non è andato ancora in letargo o non ci andrà proprio.
La neve è caduta e il manto bianco riveste ogni cosa, la foresta si addormenta cercando di conservare energie per superare la pausa invernale. Anche molti piccoli mammiferi sono in letargo mentre diversi uccelli sono partiti da tempo verso luoghi più caldi.
Tuttavia, c’è anche chi rimane, they are carnivores, ungulates, rodents and other birds.
During their ongoing activities in search of food these animals leave tracks, so after a good snowfall, there is nothing better than to get on the snowshoes and climb on the white expanse, looking for signs left by these animals and dedicated to tracking snow.
activity "seeker tracks", however, especially in the beginning can be quite depressing.
Often the prints are blurred, the track seems to stop or get lost, and not around you can see signs of life.
You have to have patience and walk calmly and quietly, always casting a glance beyond the path that you take. It will not take long to find the signs of the wanderings of some mammal.
Although at first glance may seem very similar, these signs have a precise signature.
There are animals that support the entire sole of the foot (Bear and Tasso) and others only have their finger pads (fox, lynx, wolf). Finally, others specialized to support only the third and fourth finger (chamois, ibex, Wild boar).
Ungulates, for example, leaving the characteristic trace of the foot, "cracked", with two hooves well separated.
Very easy to distinguish the wild boar, with the obvious middle fingers at the side of the impression, that missing from the deer and roe deer.
Among these, the first of delivering a more compact, with closely spaced sockets, while the latter has separate fingers and thin, like the chamois.
Simple instead, recognize the passage of the hare in its progress by leaps leaves on the ground in the unmistakable shape Y, where i vertici superiori della lettera sono il segno lasciato dalle zampe posteriori, parallele e ben distanziate tra loro, mentre la stanghetta inferiore è la traccia lasciata dagli arti anteriori, posizionati uno dietro l’altro.
Non crediate però che, una volta riconosciuta la specie, sia facile seguire le piste.
Alcuni mammiferi attuano veri e propri depistaggi per confondere l’inseguitore.
Le lepri, a volte, tornano sui propri passi o fanno busche variazioni di direzione, saltando su superfici prive di neve, tronchi o cespugli, senza lasciare impronte in giro. Lo scoiattolo è ancora più elusive, most often when an individual expert comes out of his hole in the tree, several feet along the branches or jump on the nearby trees before coming down so as not to reveal the location of your shelter.
But do not think the footprints in the snow are the only signs of the passage of these animals.
The signs are everywhere, but it takes a trained eye to discover them. So then you can see the bark on some of the streaks produced by the deer, which they rub on trees and mark it the land. To say nothing of those tufts of hair that are sometimes engaged in the wire of the barbed wire left by the passage of some fox.
Then of course there are droppings that are a veritable mine of information. Which not only reveal what animal it is, says even if the transit is recent and what she ate.
Here is a brief summary of the footprints that we might encounter.
SQUIRREL
Sciurus vulgaris
is present in hilly and mountainous areas and often in plain, in the best-preserved forests. Dinverno MILKMAIDS greatly reduces, but almost every day down dallalbero where he took refuge for supplies.
ORME very long legs and nails. A ground squirrel moves in fits and starts, and fingerprint of the characteristic form of trapezes
about 12 cm wide. Moving to jump the front legs are placed side by side with the toes spread apart, the rear, also Finger extended, touching the ground just in front of the front, sometimes a little bit outside. Measures: 3cm x 2cm front, back 4cm x 2.5cm.
HARE
Lepus europaeus
common throughout Italy, passed in Winter scooter tire hiding under the ground from which to eat out often.
FOX
Vulpes vulpes
carnivores is one of the most common and widespread in Italy. With a straordinaria capacità di adattamento anche in aree antropizzate, si rinviene in quasi tutti gli habitat, dalla pianura fino allʼalta montagna. Sempre attiva, si muove più che altro di notte. 
BOBCAT
Felis sylvestris
still active, even in the coldest months and with a predilection for the night, this is certainly in the Alps and the eastern foothills, nellAppennino Center-South, Sicily and, with the subspecies libyca even in Sardinia. 
CINGHIALE
Sus scrofa
Presente in gran parte degli ambienti collinari e di bassa montagna. Active all year, leave traces on the ground. In addition to the footprints never miss the signs of "rooting" with large tracts of land cleared for the search of tubers, roots and fungi. 
RATE
Melesse meles
It 's the only representative of the family of mustelids to have an air squat: massive body, strong legs and short tail. The head is white with two black lines evident, starting slightly above the eyes and ears and nose incorporating that make this animal unique. In Italy it is widespread throughout the peninsula but not in Sicily and Sardinia.
ORME footprint is crushed to 5-7 cm x 4 cm. Show claws and pads of the fingers are highly visible and aligned parallel to each other. The footprints left front impressi i segni delle unghie per circa 2-3 cm, quelle posteriori solo per 1 cm. MARTORA
Martes martes
Bellissimo mustelide, legato alle foreste ad alto fusto di conifere. Si può incontrare anche in altri boschi, ma è sempre molto localizzata. La faina, sua parente stretta, predilige invece ambienti collinari le campagne, anche vicino allʼuomo.
ORME The legs of the marten are covered with thick fur, which makes difficult the recognition of the fingertips. Impressions can recall those of the fox but in mustelids are more rounded and asymmetrical, with a trace of the internal finger, thumb, barely hinted at. In addition, the track of these animals is always erratic, with frequent changes of pace and often overlapping footprints. Length 3-4 cm.
CAPRIOLO
Capreolus capreolus
Tipico abitante del bosco, dalla pianura fino alla media montagna. Si incontra in tutto lʼArco Alpino, soprattutto nel settore centro-orientale.
E' molto diffuso anche lungo la dorsale appenninica, dalla Liguria fino alla Calabria.
ORME Simili alle impronte del cervo. Tuttavia, gli zoccoli sono molto più appuntiti. Lunghezza 4-5 cm.
ORME Simili alle impronte del cervo. Tuttavia, gli zoccoli sono molto più appuntiti. Lunghezza 4-5 cm.
SUEDE
Rupicapra Rupicapra
Present the bow across the Alps, has a preference for high-altitude environments, but you can meet dinverno much lower, even in the hilly areas of the valley. 
DEER
Cervus elaphus
prefers forests of beech, but can also appear at lower altitudes, especially in winter
ORME Classical imprint of ungulate hooves with large and robust. The side toes are visible only when lanimale jumps. 6-12 cm length.
Capercaillie
Tetrao urogallus
is the largest of the grouse : measure length from sixty-five seventy centimeters in a meter wingspan and a half, with wings of forty inches, thirty-tail, and weighs four to five kilograms. In Italy the species is extinct on the central and western Alps and is still present in the mountainous areas of Veneto, Trentino-Alto Adige and Friuli.
The grouse is not only a very rare animal that loves the thick woods and tranquility and is therefore very difficult to catch him in the open, except in rare and fortunate cases. 
ORME : the footprint of the male is usually 8-12 cm long and wide 7-11. Fingerprints are very open to external and forming an angle of about 180 °. Even the finger back is imprinted with clarity and is 2.5 to 3 lugo cm while the middle finger is between 6 and 7 cm in length. The footprint of the female is similar in appearance but about 1 / 3 smaller.
PHEASANT
P hasianus
The Pheasant is a generic name given to a group of birds belonging to the family Phasianidae
On land they move slowly and cautiously, with the neck and humped the beautiful tail raised so as to avoid any damage on contact with the soil, and, if they hasten the pace, bending his head lower, more tail lift and help, if necessary, with the wings resting on the trees, you keep hanging almost vertically straight and leave the long appendix. 
ORME The pheasant has a foot long: the middle finger measuring 5-6 cm, while external and rear 3.5-4 1-2 . footprint is so long and 6-8 cm wide 7-8.
Adapted from Nature No. 6 / 2009
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