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https://myhikes.org It's my own personal hiking journal that I've made public so that other folks can document their own adventures too. It'll always be there as a way to explore s…

Great place to explore and it's run by an awesome group of people!

I remember hiking under this bridge - it's a nice park but often this area was super crowded on nice days during warm weather. Lots of people with their dogs. In the years I lived …

Thanks for the reply! It's actually up and running, but if the response says "forbidden" it's likely because I blanket-block a lot of non-US IPs, AWS IP ranges, etc. because of ann…

This reply is based on my own biased experience, but I run a small website to share public trail data and I've found that Google (in my opinion) artificially suppresses my site's r…

You can be .org but it doesn't mean people will find your website, or use it, or tell other people to use it, or even trust it in the first place. Same goes for .com, .net, etc. .o…

Find a problem you want to solve for yourself and then build a solution. I created https://myhikes.org as my side project in 2015 because I hated the existing public trail platform…

Update: Since I cannot edit the main post anymore, I figured I'd leave an update here. I was able to speak with REI's AdventureProject's / HikingProject's content team and explaine…

True, you make some good points here and thanks a lot!

Thanks I'll try that. I'm an REI member too, but may not be much longer.

Yep and whoever makes them the most money through AdSense!

I had the same idea about the fake irrelevant data while trying to fall asleep last night. It's a great idea, but I also don't want to send any unwitting hiker or backpacker down t…

I run a small independent trail sharing platform for hikers and backpackers, https://myhikes.org. MyHikes obviously has to compete in ranks against the big wigs like AllTrails, Hik…

Oh gotcha, yep those are the lengths of the trails, but I can see why you would be confused. If I add a 'distance from' label for each trail when searching via nearby/radius, it pr…

'Estimated distances are way off for me' can you elaborate? I'll surely look into this or at least try to make the results make more sense based on your search :)

I built MyHikes.org back in early 2015 as a way for me and my friends to document our backpacking and hiking trips. This year I decided to open it up to the public for feedback and…