From Trailguru

Routes on Trailguru allow you share routes with other people in the community, learn about new places to explore, and download them to your GPS so you don't have to make all the navigation mistakes everyone else has the first time on a trail. This is the core of what Trailguru is about and you are encouraged to create and download routes on the site. This page explains what route pages provide section by section.

Each route starts with an overview section, and to the right is an example on Trailguru (from Route:Markha to Tahungste as part of the bigger Markha Valley Trek in the Himalayas). This overview automatically summarizes the trail segments, subroutes, and waypoints that a route is composed of into a summary overview for other users of the routes.

Trailguru also provides timing information for the route, either calculated from the GPS track data submitted by the community or by estimating the timing using the average from other GPS tracks submitted by other users of the site. In the above, we have timing data for hiking in the forward direction as the author of this track did the route in this direction while the remainder of the route's timing is estimated. None of this information will be exactly correct for you, of course, as different outdoor users will have different abilities and paces, but it does give you an important indication of how much time it has taken others to do the route and what you are getting yourself into.

Each route page on Trailguru also provides a map of the surroundings of the route with the route itself highlighted. This map is just like any of the other map pages on Trailguru but adds an additional couple of pieces of functionality. First, as described in editing a route there is an additional button on route map pages that enables you to add waypoints to the route. Waypoints are useful in areas where no trail segments are available to build up a route. That said, if the route goes over roads, Trailguru will try to snap the waypoints to the roads as shown in the example to the right. This is particularly great for building up road-based routes for activities like road biking.

Last (but definitely not least), you can download any route to your GPS from that route's page using this toolbar:

More Information about Routes

• Route Creation
• Route Editing
• Downloading Routes
• ... or have a look at an example.