myhikesorg

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   by myhikesorg 5y ago

   https://myhikes.org It's my own personal hiking journal that I've made public so that other folks can document their own adventures too. It'll always be there as a way to explore something new or challenge myself
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   by myhikesorg 5y ago

   Great place to explore and it's run by an awesome group of people!
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   by myhikesorg 5y ago

   I remember hiking under this bridge - it's a nice park but often this area was super crowded on nice days during warm weather. Lots of people with their dogs. In the years I lived in PGH I always thought about how it was just a matter
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   by myhikesorg 5y ago

   Thanks for the reply! It's actually up and running, but if the response says "forbidden" it's likely because I blanket-block a lot of non-US IPs, AWS IP ranges, etc. because of annoying crawlers. This is bad practice, bu
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   by myhikesorg 5y ago

   This reply is based on my own biased experience, but I run a small website to share public trail data and I've found that Google (in my opinion) artificially suppresses my site's results on really basic searches. Within Google&#x2
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   by myhikesorg 5y ago

   You can be <anything>.org but it doesn't mean people will find your website, or use it, or tell other people to use it, or even trust it in the first place. Same goes for <anything>.com, <anything>.net, etc. .org is a
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   by myhikesorg 6y ago

   Find a problem you want to solve for yourself and then build a solution. I created https://myhikes.org as my side project in 2015 because I hated the existing public trail platforms at the time - a lot of things have changed sin
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   by myhikesorg 7y ago

   Update: Since I cannot edit the main post anymore, I figured I'd leave an update here. I was able to speak with REI's AdventureProject's / HikingProject's content team and explained my side of the situation and they
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   by myhikesorg 7y ago

   True, you make some good points here and thanks a lot!
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    by myhikesorg 7y ago

    Thanks I'll try that. I'm an REI member too, but may not be much longer.
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    by myhikesorg 7y ago

    Yep and whoever makes them the most money through AdSense!
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    by myhikesorg 7y ago

    I had the same idea about the fake irrelevant data while trying to fall asleep last night. It's a great idea, but I also don't want to send any unwitting hiker or backpacker down the wrong route or include weird info that doesn&#x
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    REI's HikingProject regurgitated my content

    23 points by myhikesorg 7y ago|11 comments
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    by myhikesorg 9y ago

    Oh gotcha, yep those are the lengths of the trails, but I can see why you would be confused. If I add a 'distance from' label for each trail when searching via nearby/radius, it probably be less confusing. This feedback is re
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    by myhikesorg 9y ago

    'Estimated distances are way off for me' can you elaborate? I'll surely look into this or at least try to make the results make more sense based on your search :)
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    by myhikesorg 9y ago

    I built MyHikes.org back in early 2015 as a way for me and my friends to document our backpacking and hiking trips. This year I decided to open it up to the public for feedback and to see if there were people out there that wanted to share
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    Show HN: MyHikes.org – share your hiking/backpacking trips via GPX(myhikes.org)

    5 points by myhikesorg 9y ago|5 comments