{"id":177,"date":"2025-05-18T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/i-used-two-gps-hiking-apps-for-backpacking-and-ill-do-it-again\/"},"modified":"2025-05-18T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T14:00:00","slug":"i-used-two-gps-hiking-apps-for-backpacking-and-ill-do-it-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/i-used-two-gps-hiking-apps-for-backpacking-and-ill-do-it-again\/","title":{"rendered":"I used two GPS hiking apps for backpacking and I\u2019ll do it again"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In which the phones website goes outside. | \ufeffCath Virginia \/ The Verge, Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n

For most of my life, I’ve relied on a paper map when I go outdoors. Then, in March, I joined my friend Rusty<\/a> on the Appalachian Trail for two weeks. He told me to download FarOut.<\/p>\n

FarOut was my introduction to the world of app-based navigation. It’s focused on thru-hikers, and has useful details, including comments that tell you whether a specific water source is flowing, and if so, how well. It took me a minute to get the hang of it – I was hiking southbound, and it defaults to northbound – but once I did, I was impressed.<\/p>\n

FarOut works like a guidebook. But the kind of backpacking I ordinarily do is on more offbeat trails in the local national forests – not the wilderness highways FarOut specializes in. So for my first solo trip, to the Ventana Wilderness area of the Los Padres National Forest, I thought I’d try out some of the other navigation apps, as part of an absolutely transparent ploy to get my job to let me fuck off outdoors more often; there are a lot of hikes I want to do. I suspect many of our readers are connoisseurs of the great indoors, but I also know you love gadgets, and let me tell you something: so do backpackers. You would not believe the conversations I hav \u2026<\/p>\n

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