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This site has had full or partial outages from time to time,
usually lasting no more than a few hours; one day at most.
Completed 23 March 2026
For a few years now I have been posting route maps for
the hikes documented on these pages at a third-party website:
www.MapPedometer.com .
This site has had full or partial outages from time to time,
usually lasting no more than a few hours; one day at most.
However in September 2025, the website became completely unusable, and the dozens of routes I posted there appeared to be permanently lost. I expected the domain would soon be bought by an ad farm and so began making plans to (a) erase all references to MapPedometer from my pages, and (b) find an alternative way to post route maps and store those routes locally.
Eventually I settled on creating route maps in GPX format. These are plain text XML files; to make use of them, you will need to install a GPX-aware app on your desktop or mobile device. You may also need to do some fiddling with your browser configuration to streamline passing the GPX file to your app. For more details, including some app recommendations, see About Route Maps and GPX.
Several weeks into the project of creating GPX files for all of my hiking routes, I noticed that MapPedometer had come back to life. And all of my old routes were still intact. As a result, I modified the plan -- instead I've kept links to those route pages alive, aside from routes that are obsoleted by trail reconfigurations or corrected map data. Meanwhile I've created up to date GPX files for all of the old routes in addition to adding some new variations. (One of the nice features of the GPX format is that you can include multiple routes in a single file.)
Despite the unreliability, MapPedometer does have two key advantages. One is that the maps it serves up are rendered online; i.e., all you need is a browser. No external app is necessary. Another is that you can use it interactively as a scratch space for planning your own hike.
Completed 6 January 2026
The initial set of hiking pages that I posted online back in November
2020 might have passed for modern ... around the turn of the century.
Five years later, I decided that upgrading the look and feel and
making the source files HTML5-compliant
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was long overdue.
While there is always the possibility of additional tweaking, the main goals have been achieved. In particular, a navigation bar and drop-down menus are now in place at the top of every page, and although the display-adaptivity is not perfect, it is definitely an improvement.
On mobile phones (in portrait mode), removing the frame has helped reclaim valuable horizontal space, although you may still need to do some pinch-zooming to make it readable.
The new Site Map button in the navigation bar may be especially useful on small displays.
On a desktop, you'll notice that once the browser window is wide enough, the width of the text remains fixed. This allows for the best of both worlds -- a wide browser window will be better for displaying the many 16x9 landscape photographs posted here while at the same time keeping the dimensions of displayed text appropriate.