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05/28/2003 Hike The Trail [Entertainment]
Hike The Trail 1.0
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Keep track of all your hiking activities through out the years! All the parks you've visited. All trails you've hiked. You can see how many miles you've hiked on a single hike or all your hikes.
This version includes:
- Parks - Keep a list of all the parks you've visited. You have information for contacting the park, open hours and directions of how to get there if you ever want to revisit a Park. Also contains the list of trails on the Trails applet.
- Trails - Keeps information for each trail - distance difficulty, type (Loop, In and Out or Point-to-Point).
- Hiking Journal - Log all your hiking activities - weather, elevation change, time spent on that hike, etc. The total mileage hiked that day will be automatically calculated when you enter the trails hiked on the next applet.
- Trails Hiked - Logs all the trails you hiked that day. It calculates the total mileage you hiked and can also enter your personal difficulty level. When you hike this trail again, compare your rates to see if you still find that trail so difficult.
1. Parks
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a. Quick Guide:
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Keeps a list of parks with hiking trails (Linked to the Trails applet). The total mileage of hiking available on the park; contact information; fees and permissions; activities available on that park, and more.
The idea is to create a Database with as many parks as possible. But, I'm still one guy that has to do other stuff to put dinner on the table. If anyone wants to send new Parks to be included on this DB, please send them to me (Marcelo Caldas) and I will make them available as files to be imported into this applet by Region or By State.
I still need to think this process thru, but Ideas are welcome!
b. Views:
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- "Default View" - This view always contains all fields for debug purposes.
- "Main View" - Main view with summary info about each park
- "With Campsite" - Interested only on parks that have campsite available? use this view to filter them out. Also, use this view as a template if you want to search for parks with specific Activities - falls, canyons, etc.
c. Useful Sorts:
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By Activity, by Region, By State, By distance from your home.
d. Useful Filters:
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By Activity, By Region, by State, by mileages available in the park, in case you want to go for a quick 2 miles hike or a long 3 days 28 miles hike!
2. Trails
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a. Quick Guide:
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This applet keeps a link of Trails attached or not to a specific park. It holds minimal information about each trail, like distance and type of the trail.
The types of trails are as follow:
- Loop: These type of trails once you've hiked the entire trail you will end up on the same place that you started. The distance for this type of trail marks a full loop.
- Point to Point: These type of trails, you start at point A and end on point B - The mileage marked on these trails are for one way only.
Tip: If you travel a point-to-point on both directions, enter two record on Trails hiked - one North -> South and the other South -> North for example.
- In and out:This trail leads you to a dead-end. From that point on, you have to turn back and hike all the way out. The mileage marked on thse trails is for the full trip: from start to end to start again.
b. Views:
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- "Default View" - This view always contains all fields for debug purposes.
- "Main Vliew" - Main view with summary info about each trail
- "By Park" - Trails that belong to a specific park.
- "Hiked Trails" - Trails that you've already hiked - It shows the last date you hiked that trail if more than once.
c. Useful Sorts:
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By Park, By Difficulty, By Hiked On
d. Useful Filters:
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By Park, Difficulty, Length (looking for a short trail to hike?)
3. Hiking Journal
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a. Quick Guide:
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This applet will hold all your hiking activities - elevation change, who you hiked with, what time you started and what time you finished. Enter all the notes you want to summarize your experience. It's always good to have notes of your hikes, so when you want to take a friend to that gorgeous waterfall that you don't exactly remember where it was.... Or if you want to know which parks have you backpacked and go back some day... maybe you want to try the autum or even winter if you not afraid of the cold!
This applet links to the Trails Hiked to hold information about all the trails you hiked that day. From that applet, the mileage will be calculated for you.
b. Views:
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- "Default View" - This view always contains all fields for debug purposes.
- "Main Vliew" - Main view with summary info about each trail
- "Backpacking" - Hikes that you spent the night over - either on a tent or on a gorgeous Hike-Inn!
c. Useful Sorts:
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By Date, By rating, by miles.
d. Useful Filters:
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Date, Rating, miles.
4. Trails Hiked
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a. Quick Guide:
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Keep track of all the trails you hiked. You can access this from either the Hiking Journal Applet or from the Trails applet. If you access it from Hiking Journal, you can see all trails hiked for that trip. Or, if you access it from the Trails applet, you can check how many times you've hiked that trail. Click on the Details button for the Hike or Trail to go to that record on the specific applet.
b. Views:
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- "Default View" - This view always contains all fields for debug purposes.
- "Main Vliew" - Main view with summary info about each hike