Apps to Thrive Outside!
Being unplugged is one of my favorite things about the outdoors, until this year. I have two apps that I and so excited to share for all your adventures (hiking, biking, skiing, snowmaching, running, kayaking).
Having any pictures as a waypoint makes it easy for people to see your route and follow it later, makes this summary of your route a fun way to share with others. You can even add photos by uploading them if you want to after the hike on a computer.
1st: Gaia GPS. It not only tracks your speed, time, altitude, distance, ascent, pace, it has a wonderful feature of moving time and stopped time. I love knowing how long I actually was hiking minus the breaks.
It has a wonderful feature of downloading the Topo Maps of the area you are hiking (there are 6 versions that come free) so that you can have your phone (iphone or android) on airplane mode and still track everything! So, you can save power.
Having any pictures as a waypoint makes it easy for people to see your route and follow it later, makes this summary of your route a fun way to share with others. You can even add photos by uploading them if you want to after the hike on a computer.
Other hiking apps save the data for a short period of time, but Gaia GPS allows my tracts to be saved indefinitely. I love being able to search other hikers routes.
2nd: Peak Finder. Now, it doesn't work perfectly because we have a problem in Alaska, whereas some of the mountains are just not named. But, I love that this app looks at where I am standing and when I hold the phone to the Mountain Range, it NAMES THE PEAKS. Crazy, I know. It worked beautifully on the top of Pepper Peak and it identified in 360 degrees all the other mountains I was looking at.
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