Hatchure: Ride, Hike, Run

Round trips to ride, hike and run — and every stop on the way with a time: open or closed when you get there.

The route is the easy part. What ruins a day is the hut that has shut, the store that is closed on Sunday, the water fountain that has run dry. So Home starts with three buttons: Find food & water nearby, Plan a route, and Ride a round trip from here.

ROUND TRIPS
More than 29,000 round trips across Europe, under Routes › Ideas: over 12,000 to run, and over 8,000 each to hike and to ride. Plus some 2,000 passes and summits, each with the round trips that go over it. Every round trip shows its elevation profile and its stops in the order you reach them — with what is open by then. Start it wherever you like.

TOUR SENSE
Tour Sense on every round trip: which of the next five days suit it and why, when to leave and, on the bike, which way round in the wind. Home shows the round trips near you that suit the coming days. Your own routes get the good days too; Patron adds the weather and when to leave. Keep a round trip for later. On Thursday evening Hatchure tells you which day of the weekend suits it: dry, the temperature at the top, light wind. The weather is checked on your iPhone.

HORIZON AND 3D
At the top of Home: how long the light lasts, the climb of the day, and Your horizon, every climb around you in its direction. Look through the camera and every summit carries its name. Tilt the map and the ground stands up in 3D — or put the route on a table.

ON FOOT AND ON THE BIKE
Time on foot the way the signposts give it (DIN 33466), pace for a run, difficulty on the SAC scale. Springs, shelters and viewpoints are stops of their own, and Hatchure tells you beforehand whether you'll finish after sunset. On the bike, arrival times follow your weight, your bike and the climbing.

YOUR OWN ROUTE
Tap Plan a route and draw: Hatchure takes the route along real ways and finds the stops along it. Say when you set off, and every stop gets a time. If the hut sits just off the line, one tap takes the route past it.

PLAN SEVERAL DAYS
Tap Planning several days? as you draw, say when you go, for how many days and how far a day, and Hatchure plans each day and where to sleep: campsites, huts or hotels. Or plan it day by day. Try it on the sample trip; your own trips are Patron.

ON THE WAY
Your next stop sits on the lock screen: name, distance, arrival time, and whether it is open then. No turn-by-turn, just your stops. On Apple Watch a tap on the wrist comes just before each stop, and the Action button starts a ride, hike or run, phone or not.

FIRST-HAND
Stops come from OpenStreetMap and from people who were there. Confirm, correct or add one, even from a photo of the sign. Share a route as a link; nobody needs the app to look.

ALSO
• Planning needs no account. Saving and sending to a GPS device need a free one.
• No ads, no trackers.
• Offline areas: the map and its stops without signal.
• Widgets, Siri and Shortcuts, iPad.
• Miles or kilometers.
• Stops are dense in Germany and the Alps, thinner beyond.

MEMBERSHIP
Free: save 3 routes with 10 stops each. Supporter+ (yearly) brings 30 routes, folders and view links. Patron (yearly) brings unlimited routes, several days in one route, stops for the long stretches without water and food, weather for each day, round trips on request and planning together.

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