Hiking Project Hack 4.5.4 + Redeem Codes

We tools this app out for a spin over the weekend, and it was fantastic! Being able to browse all of the trails at a glance in the area (we were visiting Mt. Laguna in Southern California at the time) was fantastic. Finding a trail with just the right length was obviously great, but one of the features that proved to be quite invaluable was the trail highlight and GPS feature.

Being able to double-check our location against the trail meant never wondering about whether we had taken the right spur (as there were multiple cross-crossing trails along our path) and at one point when we got lost in conversation, we were able to double-check our location and find that we had missed the narrow off-shoot we were to have taken while enjoying each other’s company.

Another incredibly helpful feature was the elevation overview for the trail. Taking a look at it meant being able to ration energy and plan food and water breaks more easily, as well as determining when to take an impromptu break before one of the bigger gains in elevation along the trail. It’s been a wonderful, beautiful little app so far, and I can’t wait to see where else it takes us. Happy trails everyone!

Whether you are a novice to hiking or you’re an expert, this app is a must have. The Hiking Project is an awesome resource for planning your next hiking adventure; it also makes a great resource while on the trail.

It’s trail library curated with excellent standards for photographs and GPS accuracy when submitting new trails to the system. The elevation graphs of the trails are extremely informative and so is the fact that the graphs are interactive. And most of all, this app allows you to accurately determine your own location on the trail in situations where you are conserving your phone’s battery by disconnecting from your cellular network or if you simply lose service.

I still use good, old-fashioned maps of course but a multimodal approach to adventuring has always worked best for me. This app has helped increase my confidence and overall experience out on the trail. Whether backcountry camping or embarking on a day hike, I never play outside without it.

I used the app to pick a trail segment to hike on the Appalachian Trail. I was able to download the map in advance (very handy since there was minimal data service during the hike). During the hike, it was really handy to see our progress via GPS, see Scenic Looking Spots and view nearby segments. I would like to see information added to the app about when we have to cross a street to continue on the trail and step by step instructions to get to the next segment. It would also be handy if the firepits were marked. We reached the end of the segment, didn’t realize we had to cross a street to get to the shelter further ahead. Then, we spent 30 minutes of hiking searching for a campsite with a fire ring. We were so tired we almost gave up. I’m very pleased with the app overall and will use it to find more local trails and hike other AT segments in the future.

This is a terrific app. It does not have all the features of AllTrails (like photo embedding on your tracked route), but it has all the features I want. I love the interface vs AllTrails and Gaia. Very easy to find hikes. In the map view, trails are color coded the same as ski trails: green=easy, etc. Can import, export GPX and recommend trails to be added. Download offline maps, track your route with all elevation stats.

I’m currently stuck in Reno as the ski season ended abruptly with the coronavirus. But only 45 minutes from Lake Tahoe, and via Mount Rose Highway, still in the same Nevada County, so not breaking any orders. At least we can leave our own neighborhood for exercise! With 80 hikes in the Tahoe area I’m not going to get bored.

I really want this project to succeed. But every time I record a GPS track and try to add it as a trail, I run into a klunky, hard to use interface that makes me wonder why I bother.
I record my track. Now to add it as a trail, I have to go to my profile (Why?), select “Add a Trail”, then scroll all the way down to another page to use my recorded track. Then I get sent to the web interface, where map editing is impossible on a small screen. And why force me to edit the map? There are so many selections and descriptions to fill out after that. And tonight I did a big edit, and it was all lost. Clue: if “how do I recover my lost edit text” is on your FAQ, and the lame answer is “try your back button”, then your site is failing basic usability criteria. You’re not respecting the time I take to fill in data that your site can’t even bother to put into a buffer? Why should I bother?

Make it easy to add a trail from the app (not the website) and make it reliable. Otherwise I might as well go donate my time to recording tracks for AllTrails instead.

I see no downloadable offline maps option, which is the core of what this app reports to be. Get on the bandwagon! It must be because it uses Google Maps API rather that the publicly available USGS topo. The best you can do is pre-view the entire route at a decent zoom level before you go in order to cache the Gmap as much as possible, but the result is varying quality and is very limited. It’s pretty crappy actually. The trail sharing community component on this app is probably great (especially because it’s free) but without an permanent offline topo basemap the app is pretty useless for its purpose.

Sure I can make a breadcrumb trail with this app but I also want to use the same app to view my route options ahead, this especially when I’m taking an uncharted course. I’ll wait until to use this app until it uses a real offline maps (not just spotty cached map data and offline trail lines). It seems that they don’t intend to make this happen though as users have been asking for it for 3 years.

I had been waiting to see if REI would make a global trails app similar to AllTrails. I like both interfaces of the REI app and AllTrails, and I love the gem feature which the REI app provides.
Unfortunately, there a few items I feel could be improved to set it above AllTrails.
Firstly, when you’re zoomed out it’s clusters all the trails to identify there are “X” amount within that area, but when you zoom in they all disappear. In AllTrails, you can zoom all the way up to the trail head pin and even tap on it to display the more detailed trail information if desired.
Secondly, I noticed when zoomed out to view larger trail clusters you have the ability to tap to view a list of the trails on screen. However, when viewing smaller clusters the option to tap to view the list of trails on screen disappears.
Perhaps both of these are coding glitches and were not intended. But if they could be fixed, then this would help streamline the app interface tremendously.
The other items I noticed which were lacking in this app, but available in AllTrails, is an in app local weather forecast and the featured ability to record your hike. I did notice you can “check-in”, but being able to record your times is a very nice feature; especially for those of us with a more competitive side.

I’m from the UK, and to be honest the hiking community hasn’t really taken up the mantle yet and most of the trails I know at home are notably absent. I’ve been living in the US for 2 years, and exploring the national parks, monuments, and forests. This app has been the critical piece of the puzzle that has helped me plan trips, and feel confident about where to go and what gear to take. It’s also been a great bail out option, because downloading the maps means that I know my location and if I’ve lost the trail. As a solo hiker on unfamiliar trails, this has been invaluable more than once.
I recommend this app to everyone. It’s brilliant. And free.

This is is great app that I have used countless times. Being able to access trail maps off line is fantastic because as we all know, the chances of having a phone signal on trail is slim. Knowing the terrain and elevations is a plus with the app and on my last hike, I tracked my location and kept up with what elevation changes I was about to encounter. My only complaint is that I wish the app could save my hike information (miles, elevation gains, etc.). Until this happens, I have to keep track of my data on another app. However, I am sure that as time goes on the app will eventually be able to do so and more. This app is a valuable tool for every hiker.

Why did you break something I was able to rely to on the trail? This new version is not reliable and can't be used on the trail anymore, will probably have to switch to Alltrails.

- this is not production ready, when you have a great app, don't rush yourself on releasing a new version with SO many bugs and crashes! Like I said not reliable anymore on the trail!
- Map is now simply not usable, terrible UX, on top that it is impossible to use because it's slow and buggy.
- Why removing the Pin trail feature!? This was so convenient to pin a trail planning my hike and during my hike to simply stay on the trail I'm on, now it's lost in my favorites, and have to sometime spend time looking for itwhile on the trail, what a waste of time...
- finally, TODOs and Favorites are two different things! Why rename TODOs into favorite, it's just all confusing for the user, I feel like I lost all my stuffs.

The better is the enemy of the good, in other words, don't fix it if it's ain't broke.

The hiking project was my best reliable companion on the trail, I was happy to log new trails to be part of the community and help building the trails database, I will now have to use Alltrails. This is sadly not reliable anymore out there, fearing that the map get unusable and might crash trying to use it is not an option.