The Overview tab is your hike's front page: the essentials at a glance, plus the admin controls for the trip.
The Itinerary Card
The card across the top shows the plan day by day, once routes are on the itinerary:
- The map draws each day's walk in one of two alternating colours, with a numbered pin where each day ends (the camp after day 4 is "4") and dots for the start and finish.
- The days list the camp at the end of each day with its distance, and its ascent and descent underneath. Food drops, the finish, the day with the biggest climb and the longest day are tagged. Travel days that carry a walk are listed before or after the hike's own days.
- Elevation by day is the whole hike's profile, with a band for each day across the top.
Pick a day from any of them (a row, a camp pin, or a band on the profile) and the others follow: the row lights up, the map zooms to that day's walk and draws it above the rest, and the profile shades it. Pick it again and the map zooms back out to the whole hike. On a phone, the arrows under the map step through the days.
The map's other pins (camps, food drops, water, reception, waypoints) and travel legs start hidden here, so the walk is easy to read. Turn them on from the cog at the map's top-left, or open the full-screen map with the expand button, where they all show. Open the Itinerary takes you to the full day-by-day plan.
About This Hike
The About this hike card shows the start and end dates — or the duration with "dates to be confirmed" if the group hasn't locked dates in yet. Below that, anyone with edit access can click the description to write an intro for the trip: the plan, the vibe, what people should know before committing.
The owner or a co-admin can change the dates from Edit hike: pick the start date and how many days the hike runs, and the end date follows. When the start date moves, everything planned moves with it — the itinerary's entries, routes and food drops, everyone's meals, rest days and water — so Day 1 is still Day 1 and nothing needs moving by hand.
The chat then asks anyone who has already sent their safety brief to send it again, since their contacts have the old dates. While anyone's post-hike check-in is armed the dates can't be changed: they turn it off first.
Links
Under the description sits the hike's link list — a shared place for the pages everyone keeps hunting for:
- the national park or land manager's page for the trail
- the shuttle or transport operator
- permit and booking portals
- the local weather forecast
- maps, guidebooks and trip reports
Click Add link, paste the URL, give it a short title and pick a category (Park info, Transport, Permits, Weather, Stay, Maps & guides, Emergency, Other). Links display with a category icon and the site's name, and open in a new tab. Anyone with edit access can add or tidy them.
Routes And The Map
The Route Details section lists every uploaded route file with its distance, ascent and descent, and an elevation profile. The full-screen map (the expand button on the itinerary card's map) shows everything scheduled on the itinerary — routes in their own colours, camps, food drops, water and reception points. See Routes & maps for uploading and managing routes.
The Pack
The members panel lists everyone on the hike with their role, and is where admins invite people, adjust permissions and manage Pack Shadows. Details in Members, roles & Pack Shadows.
Owner Controls
If you own the hike you'll also see:
- Activity log — a history of notable changes on the hike.
- Admin Zone — close or delete the hike. Closing marks the trip done and emails everyone a final expense summary with the suggested settle-up; the hike stays readable, but its emergency contacts, PLBs and emergency notes are deleted. Deleting removes it permanently.
Note: Closing is permanent — the hike becomes read-only for everyone — so settle the expenses and finish any tidy-up first.
If anyone's post-hike check-in is still running when you close, the close dialog lists who, and when each is due. Closing doesn't turn them off: alerts still go out, "I'm back safe" still works, and their emergency details stay until it has finished. If an alert has already gone to someone's contacts and they haven't checked in, you'll need to confirm they're safe, or that they know their check-in is still running, before the hike will close.