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This site looks great for inspiration, but for me the most important thing when planning a hike is being able to see updates on current conditions (e.g. is the
by ejain 13y ago
This site looks great for inspiration, but for me the most important thing when planning a hike is being able to see updates on current conditions (e.g. is the trailhead accessible? Is there snow on the trail?).
One of the best-implemented hiking sites in my opinion is hikr.org, though the information I need tends to be on local sites like wta.org or nwhikers.net.
In addition to submitting trip reports to wta.org, I keep a record of my hikes at https://zenobase.com/#/buckets/u07qih0a27/ https://zenobase.com/#/buckets/u07qih0a27/. It's a more general-purpose service, but I can filter by any combination of region, hiking distance, duration, season etc.
- zakn 13y agoTrip reports are something I've been thinking about adding for a while. The problem I face at the moment is that they're only useful is you have a very active community. I'm still trying to figure out where hike.io fits into the hiking website ecosystem. Maybe it makes sense to keep it limited to just "wikipedia for hikes" and leaving trip reports to the location specific hikes. I think I'll add support and see what kind of traction I get. Thanks for the hikr.org link, I haven't come across that one before. And very cool trip tracker of your hikes.
- jamra 13y agoThe only way to get this done correctly is to have a mobile app. You can take advantage of the mobile GPS and the fact that hikers would love to update their phones with their trip info. The only downside would be connectivity issues while on the trail.