Hillwalking in Britain and Ireland
Walk reports with the line to follow, the forecast for the summit rather than the town, Ordnance Survey's maps, and every hill you climb on every list it's on. 161 walks and 3,687 hills so far.
Free to look round and plan. A free account keeps your walks, ticks and GPX files.
Walk reports
Each report puts the route on the map with its climb and how long it takes, says where to park and which bus or train gets you there, then takes you through the walk stage by stage: the hazards, and the way off if the weather turns.
Walk report · Ben Nevis & Mamores
Build a walk
Click the map and the line follows the paths, tracks and quiet roads, or goes straight across open hill. The distance, climb and time add up as you go, and Save puts the walk on your phone.
Try it: add the points of the CMD Arete to Ben Nevis, one stage at a time.
Build your own on the mapMountain weather
Wind and gusts at the height of the top, how cold it will feel, the cloud base and the freezing level, from the Met Office's UK model and the other big forecasts. Each day, the areas with the best weather, and the official mountain forecasts for each one.
Every hill's forecast on the mapLive, for Ben Nevis
Getting the forecast…
Hour by hour, the cloud base and the freezing level are in the TrailSync app.
Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0), summarised. Wind is for the hill's area at 10 m above the ground; on the tops it can be stronger.
In the app
TrailSync records your walk with GPS and your phone's barometer for the climb, keeps going with the screen locked, and keeps recording without signal. Following a route, it tells you when you're off the line and which way it is.
The iPhone app is in testing now. Press Start to see a walk recorded.
Hill lists
Munros, Corbetts, Grahams, Donalds, Wainwrights, Hewitts, Nuttalls, the Marilyns and the Irish lists. Tick a hill once and it counts on every list it's on.
Try it: tick a few. In TrailSync your ticks are kept with the date you climbed each hill.
Ordnance Survey maps
The maps you know from paper: Explorer at 1:25 000 and Landranger at 1:50 000, right across Britain, as the Topographical layer. Free with an account; you agree to OS's terms the first time you open them.
Learn
Short courses on navigation, mountain weather, first aid and winter skills, with quizzes, and stories from the hills in between. Some you practise: take a bearing here, from following one to taking one off the map with no help. On a phone, you turn with it.
Six short levels, from following a bearing to taking one off the map on your own. The help thins out as you go. On a phone, hold it flat and you turn with it.
Yes, to look round and to plan, and a free account saves your walks, your ticks and your GPX files. TrailSync Plus, with more weather tools and offline maps, is on the way.
Scotland, England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Ireland and the Isle of Man: every hill on the main lists, and walk reports across Britain, most of them in Scotland so far.
Recording does: your walk is kept on your phone and goes up when you're back in signal. The map needs signal for now; offline maps are coming. Always carry a paper map and a compass.
iPhone first: the app is in testing now. Everything else works in a browser at trailsync.co.uk.
You choose: a public or private profile, how much of each walk's start and end to hide, and whether your heart rate shows. The privacy policy says what we keep and why.
Maps from Mapbox and OpenStreetMap, Ordnance Survey and MapTiler; forecasts from Open-Meteo, including the Met Office's UK model; hills from the Database of British and Irish Hills.
Every walk and hill, free to look round.