The Itinerary tab is the day-by-day plan: one card per day, holding that day's routes, camps, travel and everything else with a time and a place.
Two Ways To See The Days
Use the switch at the top of the tab to pick the layout that suits what you're doing:
- All days — every day stacked down the page. Best for building the plan and dragging things between days.
- Day focus — one day at a time, with the rest of the trip as a list beside it (a strip of day chips on a phone). Best for reading the plan, and for actually walking it — you get that day's elevation profile and map without the noise of the whole trip.
Your choice is remembered on that device, and it's yours regardless of your role — view-only members and closed hikes can switch too. Everything works the same in both; you can even drag items onto another day from either.
Itinerary Items
Add items to any day and give each a category — Flight, Stay, Transport, Drive, Activity, Tent, Hut or POI. Depending on the category an item can carry:
- departure and arrival times, and from/to locations (travel items)
- a description and a link (booking page, hut info, trailhead directions…)
- a linked expense, so the cost and the plan stay connected
- "Applies to" — everyone, or just the people actually on that flight
Staying somewhere more than one night
Stay, Tent and Hut entries have a Nights box. Set it to 3 and the entry covers three consecutive nights from its date — it shows up on each of those day cards, tagged with which night you're on, so a glance at any day tells you where you're sleeping.
It stays a single entry, so there's one thing to edit if the booking changes, one pin on the map rather than three stacked on the same spot, and one place to link the hotel bill. The entry can only be dragged from its first night — moving that moves the whole stay — and deleting it removes the whole booking, which the confirmation spells out. To make a stay shorter, change the Nights box.
Tent, Hut, Stay, Activity and POI items can be placed on the map. Hit Pick on map in the item's form and click the spot, choose a marker icon, and they appear on every map of the hike. (You can still add one by clicking the map directly, or type the coordinates if you have them from somewhere else.)
The picker also shows any waypoints from your route files that aren't being used yet. Click one and the entry takes it over: the entry sits exactly on the waypoint, and the waypoint stops drawing its own marker so you don't get two pins on one spot. Water sources and mobile reception are left out of that list — those are their own kind of pin, and a waypoint's own map menu still offers them.
Travel Legs On The Map
A Flight, Transport or Drive item can also carry a travel path. Open the item and choose Pick on map: click once for the start, once for the end, and drag either pin to nudge it. Your routes are drawn faintly underneath, so you can see where the leg meets the walk.
The hike map then draws a dashed arc between the two points with a plane, bus or car on it. Hover the arc — or tap the icon on a phone — for the item's title, times, from/to locations, who it applies to, and the straight-line distance. The Travel button on the map switches the arcs off if they get in the way.
Two things worth knowing:
- The arc is a decoration, not a route. It isn't the road or the flight path, and its distance is a straight line — it never counts towards a day's walking figures.
- Arcs don't move the map's framing. One flight would otherwise zoom your hike out to a whole continent, so the map still frames the walk and you zoom out to follow a leg.
- Travel paths are never included in a public share link. The from/to text you type is published (and can be hidden per item); the coordinates are not, because a pin is a far more precise thing to publish than "the trailhead car park".
Tip: Days aren't limited to the hike's date range — add travel days before the start or after the end and they get their own cards.
Routes On Days
Assign an uploaded route — or a Section Planner section — to each walking day. A day can hold several, and each can be:
- marked as a side trail (an optional detour rather than the main line)
- assigned to specific members, when the group splits up for a day
Each day shows its route stats, and View map opens that day's routes on a full map — with camps, drops and water points, and the same click-to-place tools as the Overview.
Food Drops And Map Points On Days
Shared food drops can be scheduled onto the day you'll collect them. Water and reception points near a day's route can be assigned to that day too — they condense into small icons on the day header, with the distance along the day's walk.
Scheduling a drop onto a day is what puts it in front of the pack on the day they need to collect it — on the day card, and in the PDF export. It's also the day backpack weight treats as the resupply point.
Backpack Weight On Every Day
A ribbon under each day header shows what your backpack should weigh at the start of that day — your base weight, plus your water, plus the food you're still carrying. Tap it for the full breakdown, and to set your water for that day in 100 ml (or 8 fl oz on imperial units) steps.
Set your base weight on the Gear tab and your food on the Food tab, and the number appears here on its own. Owners and co-admins can also suggest a water carry for a day, which applies to anyone who hasn't set their own. Full detail: Backpack Weight.
Zero Days
Mark a day as a zero day — a rest day with no hiking. The card changes to warm rest day colours so the rhythm of the trip is visible at a glance.
Planning By Duration ("Day 1, Day 2, …")
Can't commit to dates yet? Create the hike by duration and plan everything against day numbers. When the group finally books leave, the owner or a co-admin hits Schedule and picks the real start date — every item, route, drop, meal and zero day shifts onto the calendar in one move. Plans change? Unschedule flips it back to day numbers without losing anything.
Note: Setting or changing dates is a co-admin/owner action, since it moves the whole group's plan.