Social Hiking

For 11 years we helped people share their outdoor adventures. The service closed on 30 June 2021. This account is not monitored.

[Social Hiking @SocialHiking]

Tis done...

[Gaz @Northlakesuk]

Hey Twitter hiking buddies what you all using for tracking your hikes I really miss using @SocialHiking and ViewRanger is on its countdown to oblivion

[plotaroute.com @plotaroute]

@SocialHiking @PilgrimChris @TrekkingPaul Just to clarify, @plotaroute can be used for free on both desktop and mobile. Also, you can upload GPS files in a variety of formats (GPX, TCX, KML, FIT).

[Social Hiking @SocialHiking]

@PilgrimChris @martin_free @TrekkingPaul @plotaroute I know right - is it not amazing they give so much hard work away for free on desktop?

[Social Hiking @SocialHiking]

@PilgrimChris @TrekkingPaul @plotaroute I have to admit I presumed it did GPS imports. Perhaps less useful then.

[Social Hiking @SocialHiking]

Although no live tracking this might be an interesting option for many former @SocialHiking users.

[plotaroute.com @plotaroute]

@TrekkingPaul @SocialHiking Sorry to hear about the closure. We probably don't tick all your boxes but we may be able to help with route sharing - https://t.co/37S582A9tW. We have a personal challenge tracker, free OSM maps and Ordnance Survey maps with premium membership. Like @socialhiking we're UK based.

[Social Hiking @SocialHiking]

@plotaroute @TrekkingPaul Ok found pricing and legal tucked away in the privacy statement.

[Social Hiking @SocialHiking]

@plotaroute @TrekkingPaul So I would love to spread the word about your service but I can find no pricing info (or indeed any of the required legal info on ownership / registered details etc.) on your site. Can you point me in the right direction?

[Social Hiking @SocialHiking]

@BarneyTheBear @TGOMagazine @townsendoutdoor @CumbrianBlondie Ha ha not sure about that but thanks anyway.

[Social Hiking @SocialHiking]

At some point I was oddly nominated as outdoor personality of the year in @TGOMagazine awards. Clearly ridiculous (I was up against the legend that is @townsendoutdoor) but I enjoyed my moment in the lime light. Thanks to @CumbrianBlondie who accompanied me to the awards night.

[Social Hiking @SocialHiking]

@martin_free @TrekkingPaul Funnily enough that is also what my business customers tend to say about the projects I work on!

[Social Hiking @SocialHiking]

@martin_free @TrekkingPaul Yeah VR never quite got it.

[Social Hiking @SocialHiking]

@martin_free @TrekkingPaul Every day I expected to wake up to a better version done by a bigger company with a budget.... never happened.

[Paul @TrekkingPaul]

Already missing looking at @SocialHiking and seeing the progress of people on #TGOC and other walks. There is no suitable alternative unfortunately unless anyone has any suggestions 🤔 What apps are folk now using to track their walks?

[Social Hiking @SocialHiking]

Phil T is of course @MrPhilTurner now!

[Social Hiking @SocialHiking]

Bound to completely fail to name check everyone who was part of this journey (sorry), but at the start it was especially Phil T (twitter handle has changed) & @Tramplite (encouragement to open out to other people) @tookiebunten (logo) @stevenhorner (peak bagging) & @ukjeeper

[Social Hiking @SocialHiking]

Done. All your personal data and account tokens (how we accessed your twitter account etc.) have been deleted.

[Social Hiking @SocialHiking]

Yesterday was hard - but that was just redirecting all traffic to the closure page. Today it is clicking this button... Sure - there are backups (that will eventually get deleted as they expire) but this feels very final.

[Social Hiking @SocialHiking]

@stevenhorner Definitely - that would be really good.

[Social Hiking @SocialHiking]

One of the most popular and unique features of SH (why did no one else implement it) was auto peak bagging - an idea I stole (with consent) from @stevenhorner . Genius idea. His original blog post is gone so here is the SH one - https://t.co/fuAqK9yjdj

[Social Hiking @SocialHiking]

@Hiking_Blog @DrPollyPeacock Thank you for all the support and map sharing .

[Social Hiking @SocialHiking]

Since 2015 - despite so many schemes that @DrPollyPeacock and I came up with. Ultimately there wa never enough time and will. The site has such a dedicated group of users but it was too problematic to encourage new users and was too much work to fix.

[Social Hiking @SocialHiking]

@martin_free True - very wise Mr Free!

[Social Hiking @SocialHiking]

It has been emotional. Thank you everyone for sharing the moment with me. 11 years of my life - done.

[Social Hiking @SocialHiking]

@mascarandy @DaylightGambler Thanks Mike. Happy hiking.