Trailblazer

Official companion app to Trailblazer Guides guidebooks

Trailblazer, UK-based publisher of adventure travel guides for over 25 years, brings you the Trailblazer Walking Guide smartphone app, your navigational supplement and companion to our popular line of British Walking Guides.

The Trailblazer Special includes guides for:

- South Downs Way

- West Highland Way

- The Ridgeway

- Wainwright's Coast to Coast

- Hadrian's Wall Path

- Cotswold Way

Tour du Mont Blanc

Also available for individual purchase

Key features:

- No mobile or internet connection is required after initial setup -- works in Airplane Mode

- Detailed maps with your GPS location

- Elevation profile view

- Custom route creator

- Multiple offline map choices

- Real-time comments from other hikers

- Send your current location to friends or family via text message or email

The guidebook lists every waypoint in order by distance along the trail and how far away you are from each waypoint. The guidebook also includes a detailed town guide for major resupply points, towns, and services including convenient references to the applicable guide book.

Waypoint details include:

- Mileage point and elevation

- Photographs

- Distance to the next water source and tent site

- Comments section where you may post comments and read other hikers’ comments

Types of waypoints:

- Water sources (including the reliability of each water source)

- Detailed resupply and town information:

- post offices and other package services

- restaurants

- grocery stores and convenience stores

- gear shops and hardware stores

- laundromats

- lodging, public showers, public restrooms

- public libraries

- Tenting sites/camping sites

- Trail junctions

- Parking areas along the trail

- Picnic areas, campgrounds, ranger stations

- Roads, railroad tracks, power lines, fences, gates

- Natural landmarks (e.g. mountain passes)

- Privies/restrooms

- Views

About Trailblazer Guides:

We publish more than 40 travel guides. They include the British walking guides series, trekking guides, rail guides and adventure travel guides. We now publish around a dozen titles a year. Trailblazer authors have a voice. Our authors are travellers first and authors second. We think that a guidebook should inspire the reader to travel and encourage him or her to interact with local people. Our guides are entertaining as well as informative. In the words of one reviewer, Trailblazer guides are examples of: 'Good guides (that) read like a novel and get you packing in no time'. Visit us at trailblazer-guides.com.