TrailsNH turns 15 years old today. I registered the domain name on November 17th 2008. It took me another 6 months before the first version of website was ready to go live. I created TrailsNH out of my passion for hiking and coding, and to share my skills with other hikers. I wanted to create … Continue reading TrailsNH Turns 15 Years Old
Tag: Hiking
AMC Four Thousand Footers
The White Mountain 4000 Footers list is a quest for hikers, with rules like a game. The rules are a hiker must walk, run, or ski on foot to the top of each peak on the list and back. When the hiker has climbed (sometimes called “bagged”) each peak on the list they qualify for … Continue reading AMC Four Thousand Footers
New Sticker Designs for TrailsNH
This year I’ve created two new sticker designs for TrailsNH. The goal for the stickers is to help promo and fund the site. If you are interested, you can order stickers from the TrailsNH Sticker Shop Up A Mountain, Down A Beer Sticker I’ve been trying to create a design for “Up A Mountain, Down … Continue reading New Sticker Designs for TrailsNH
2023 Big Peak Sticker
1: The Original Pour This is where the series began. The inaugural sticker in the Up a Mountain, Down a Beer – TrailsNH Sticker Series captures the moment that sparked a whole collection. Equal parts rugged and radiant, this circular design features a pint glass filled with a mountain sunset—vivid orange light against teal-hued skies, … Continue reading 2023 Big Peak Sticker
REI Bedford NH – Spring 2023 Update
This is a follow up to my post about the REI Bedford Announcement, back in Fall 2022. REI announced in November 2022 their second NH store would be in Bedford NH. The first NH REI store opened in North Conway NH in 2019, but it’s not convenient unless you live in the North Country. The … Continue reading REI Bedford NH – Spring 2023 Update
Least and Most Searched Peaks of the NH 52 With A View Hiking List of 2022
Looking at Hiking Trends of 2022 and my year end review for TrailsNH, here are the Top 5 (most popular) and Bottom 5 peaks (least popular) on the NH 52 WAV hiking list: Most Searched NH 52 With A View Least Searched NH 52 With A View The most popular 52 WAV peak, Mt Monadnock … Continue reading Least and Most Searched Peaks of the NH 52 With A View Hiking List of 2022
TrailsNH Hiking Trends of 2022
Here are the top 5 peaks for each major hiking list in the Northeast for 2022. The rank is based on hikers looking up the summit forecast, trail map, or trail reports on TrailsNH.com 4000 Footers New Hampshire 4000 Footers 1 Mount Washington NH 2 Mount Lafayette NH 3 Mount Moosilauke NH 4 Mount Adams … Continue reading TrailsNH Hiking Trends of 2022
REI Announces Bedford NH Store!
REI announced last week they will be opening an REI store in Bedford NH, in Fall 2023. TrailsNH.com couldn’t be more excited to have REI only 10 miles from my headquarters in Goffstown. See my May 2023 update on the REI Bedford NH Store The REI Bedford Store will be a large 22,000 square foot … Continue reading REI Announces Bedford NH Store!
2014-2015 Snow Depth at AMC Huts
TrailsNH DB Outage
Yesterday, November 4th TrailsNH had a 5 hour database outage. The database was near but not over the maximum space allocation, and a mistake made by my hosting company caused them to shut down access to the database. Three days prior (November 1st) my hosting company informed me I was over the limit by almost … Continue reading TrailsNH DB Outage
3D Maps for Ty Gagne’s New Book: The Last Traverse
Buy The Book: “The Last Traverse”I had the pleasure of working with Ty Gagne on his new book, “The Last Traverse” Last winter Ty contacted me looking for “cold-looking” maps for an up coming book he was working on. He had seen a map style that he wanted to replicate. I love maps, spend a … Continue reading 3D Maps for Ty Gagne’s New Book: The Last Traverse
Open Source Leave No Trace PSA’s
Do you run a hiking blog or channel? Or are you a graphic designer or can you draw? Or are you good at writing catchy ad copy or messaging? If so I want to team up with you. The Problem: If you’ve been hiking a while, you already know lots of new people are getting … Continue reading Open Source Leave No Trace PSA’s
Enhance the map in your Google Business Listing
Help Google, help you. If your business covers a specific region, set that up in your Google For Business account. You can specify what region you cover, in addition to where your office is located. The search results for your business will include a map like this. It’s eye catching, right?! If you are still … Continue reading Enhance the map in your Google Business Listing
TrailsNH Gift Certificate Giveaway Contest Rules
In a few weeks (mid-May 2019?) the forest roads will start opening up. Anyone who helps out on TrailsNH by changing a forest road to “Open” or confirms a road is open gets entered to win a $20 gift certificate from my friends at The Notch Hostel. TrailsNH follows 41 forest road in the Whites, and … Continue reading TrailsNH Gift Certificate Giveaway Contest Rules
Year in Review: Hikers Trip Planning the NH 4000 Footers
This graph shows which NH 4000 Foot Peaks hikers research, before they hike them. I got the idea for this graph from a post at outdoors.org. The AMC counted posts on Instagram, by peak. Their numbers look very different than mine. Lots of Instagram post from Mt Washington and Mt Adams but not much else. … Continue reading Year in Review: Hikers Trip Planning the NH 4000 Footers
Building a Custom Trail Map Using OSM and Mapbox
Here is an high level overview of the process I use for building my own custom hiking trail map. The data I’m using (trails, summits, etc…) are available as open source from OSM. After I fetch and clean up the data I use MapBox to generate the map tiles, in a map style I designed. The custom trail … Continue reading Building a Custom Trail Map Using OSM and Mapbox
TrailsNH.com: Northeast Trail Conditions
TrailsNH.com is a pet project of mine that stems from my love of hiking, database, and web based technologies. The site is driven by bots I created to gather hiking trip reports and related information from all over the internet. The system GeoTags the location of each report, then indexes and organizes the information so hikers can find … Continue reading TrailsNH.com: Northeast Trail Conditions
The Notch Hostel
The Notch Hostel is a new hostel in the Whites Mountain of New Hampshire. I was super thrilled when Serena & Justin contacted me about the project. The WordPress site I built for them will be easy to maintain themselves. The responsive template I built adapts nicely between desktop screens, tablets, and smartphones. We looked at a bunch of … Continue reading The Notch Hostel
