Finding new hiking trails can be a real challenge as ignorance can cause fear. That is why there are applications such as wikiloc that allows you to consult all the available data of the routes around you. In this article we will tell you all the details about this app and why it will make you fall in love.
Explore routes in your area
If you are a hiking lover, as soon as you enter the application, you will have an extensive list of many hiking trails in your area. Although you can also carry out a search by location in case you are planning to make a trip to another part of the country in order to organize the routes you are going to do. In total there are more than 18 million routes throughout the world that are displayed on different cards. These give interesting information such as the distance, the unevenness and also the difficulty as well as different photographs of the entire route that you are going to access.
By entering each of the tabs you will be able to have much more detailed information. For example, data are given on the minimum maximum altitude, the weather, and also a graph of the levels. That is, at what distance do you begin to climb and when you descend, as well as the pronunciation of each of the slopes that you will climb and descend. At the end you will see the complete itinerary and you can save the route to be able to do it in the future. The problem is that you need to have a subscription to keep track of the route you are going to do or send it to the Apple Watch. This monthly or annual payment may be worth it if you are a big fan of hiking. Right at the beginning you will obviously have the map with all the critical points and possible beginnings of the route.
In the ‘Explore’ tab you can filter all the routes to suit your tastes. You can choose whether to do it walking, running, cycling … in addition to marking the distance, the unevenness or the months in which they were recorded.
Record the routes you are going to do
In the event that you know a route that is not registered in the application, you can always save it. This is done in the second tab that is included where with a simple button you can start monitoring the route you are doing. Through the GPS, all the way you are doing will be recorded, in addition to the elevation, taking as a reference the cartographic maps that the application stores and uses. To this are added the indicators of distance traveled, average speed, time in movement … All these values are very important both for personal monitoring and for later being reflected for the rest of the people who want to consult it later.
Also on the map itself where you follow all the way you are doing you can have access to the camera. In this way you can have all the photographs of the route in one place together with all the data that has been collected. They will also be available to everyone who wants to consult the route. At the end you will be able to enter different query data such as the name or the itinerary.
Account and subscription
You have the possibility of creating an account in this application to be able to store all the routes that you are doing as well as those that you want to do and that you have consulted. But to be able to enjoy all the features that are included and the synchronization with the Apple Watch, you have to pay a subscription. In addition to this compatibility, you can allow live monitoring of the route so that your families or friends know where you are at all times in case there is an accident and cannot contact you.
The price of this subscription varies depending on the number of months you want to contract. In the case of the annual subscription, you will only pay € 9.99, which is € 0.83 per month. In the event that you only want to hire three months, you can pay only € 4.99. You always have a 14-day trial period so you can test if it is an application that meets all your expectations.