Privacy Policy
What is Live Trails?
Live Trails enables people to find, experience, and benefit from the latest hiking reports, pictures, and trail updates. Users can create their own network of outdoor friends to share, and discuss outdoor trips.
Live trails also makes managing your hiking reports easy. It helps you organize your reports and share them with your friends and family.
Live trails also makes managing your hiking reports easy. It helps you organize your reports and share them with your friends and family.
Why do I need to sign up?
You don’t need to sign up to view or post reports. However, sign up enables you to:
1. create your outdoor network.
2. manage your reports easier.
3. create your best pictures.
4. see more pictures.
5. add comments.
6. and more.
1. create your outdoor network.
2. manage your reports easier.
3. create your best pictures.
4. see more pictures.
5. add comments.
6. and more.
Does login disclose my Facebook password?
No, your password is not disclosed to us. The login window is generated by Facebook.
We don’t have an access to it. Facebook will create a session when you login.
It completely controls the login process.
Facebook adminstrators have verified that our application conforms to their regulations.
I hit on the “Connect with Facebook” button but nothing happens?
It is likely that you are logged in but the page has not been refreshed.
We don't know whether it is a problem in the browser, Facebook, or in our software.
In the meantime till the issue is fixed, when it happens, refresh the page manually.
I am using Firefox on Mac and cannot login. What can I do?
The issue is happening because the third-party cookies is disabled in your browser.
Without it Facebook will not able to validate your session and you will stay logged off.
To enable cookies in Firefox:
1. Click Preferences > Options.
2. Click Privacy in the top panel.
3. Select the checkbox labeled 'Accept third-party cookies.'
4. Click OK.
As far as we know this problem only happens on Firefox. If you have another browser on your Mac such as Safari, it will likely work without any change.
To enable cookies in Firefox:
1. Click Preferences > Options.
2. Click Privacy in the top panel.
3. Select the checkbox labeled 'Accept third-party cookies.'
4. Click OK.
As far as we know this problem only happens on Firefox. If you have another browser on your Mac such as Safari, it will likely work without any change.
Can I see more than just the ten best pictures?
Yes, hit on the ‘Next Set’ and the next ten best pictures, if they are available, will be shown.
The same thing applies to recent pictures: hit on the “Next Set” to see pictures of older reports.
How the popular reports are rated?
It is done automatically. Our system rates a report based on its average daily views, votes,
and its picture votes.
What do the colors mean in the trail search result?
The colors reflect the status of the trail based on the last report that has been
added. The colors might not reflect the current condition of the trail if no recent
report was submitted. Here is a description for the colors:
1. Green: the report states that the hike was successfully done less than one month.
2. Red: the report states that the hike was unsuccessfully done regardless of the age of the report.
3. Orange: the report states the hike was successfully done over one month ago, which might not reflect the current state of the trail.
1. Green: the report states that the hike was successfully done less than one month.
2. Red: the report states that the hike was unsuccessfully done regardless of the age of the report.
3. Orange: the report states the hike was successfully done over one month ago, which might not reflect the current state of the trail.
How to write a good report?
Any report is important including the ones that have no album or comment.
People still benefit from just knowing that it was doable or not.
However, it is always a good idea to include the following in your report to make it more helpful:
1. Personal Experience.
2. Picture albums such as pictures of the trail and views seen from it. Adding descriptions to the pictures is important.
3. Trail conditions such as the trail was icy, snow free, requires routefinding, or was in good conditions.
4. Road conditions such as the road was rough and only doable by 4x4 cars.
1. Personal Experience.
2. Picture albums such as pictures of the trail and views seen from it. Adding descriptions to the pictures is important.
3. Trail conditions such as the trail was icy, snow free, requires routefinding, or was in good conditions.
4. Road conditions such as the road was rough and only doable by 4x4 cars.
You can choose to make your page public, protected, or private.
A public page is a page that you want to share with everyone.
A protected page is a page that you only want to share with Facebook users.
A private page is a page that you only want to share with your friends.
You can change this setting at any time. However, please remember that all pages have a public URL.
To change your page setting:
1. Click on Setting.
2. Choose Public to make your page available to anyone. Choose Proctected to make your accessable only by Facebook Users. Chooose Private to keep it available only to your friends.
3. Click Save.
A public page is a page that you want to share with everyone.
A protected page is a page that you only want to share with Facebook users.
A private page is a page that you only want to share with your friends.
You can change this setting at any time. However, please remember that all pages have a public URL.
To change your page setting:
1. Click on Setting.
2. Choose Public to make your page available to anyone. Choose Proctected to make your accessable only by Facebook Users. Chooose Private to keep it available only to your friends.
3. Click Save.
Some popular trails have their own names (e.g. Ground Grind and BCMC). In this case, you need to use these names.
However, many trails don’t have names.
We have created a naming convention to make trails more understandable, easier to find, and reduce
duplicates.
A trail name is composed of four elements. The first element is required and other three are optional:
1. Landmark element (required) is the identifier of the main distinctive landmark that the trail goes to such as a lake or peak. If the landmark has a synonym, add the synonym after the landmark separated by a slash.
2. from Trailhead, via Intermediate point, to trailend elements (optional): In many cases, they are the starting and ending parking lots.
3. in Park name: this element is used when the landmark or the trail name is commonly used and not distinctive enough to identify the trail.
4. One way, roundtrip, or loop elements (optional) which describes if the trail is done one way, roundtrip, or a loop.
The second and the third elements must always be set inside parentheses. The four element must only be surrounded by parentheses when the second or third element is not defined.
Examples of legitimate names are:
1. Landmark
2. Landmark (from Trailhead)
3. Landmark (Trailhead to Treadend)
4. Landmark (Trailhead to Treadend) one way
5. Landmark (one way)
6. Landmark/Synonym
7. Landmark (in Park)
Here are the rules of choosing the right elements:
1. If there is only one trail or if it is a popular trail to a destination, only the Landmark element need to be specified. It will be named after the destination. For example, the trail to Garibaldi Lake will be named Garibaldi Lake.
2. If there are more than one trail to the destination: define the trailhead location in the title. For example, the trail to the Lions that starts from Cypress Parking Lots will be named Lions (from Cypress Parking Lots).
3. If the trail ends at a different place than the trailhead, define the trailhead and trailend elements. For example, The Hanes Valley trail that starts from Lynn Park and ends at Grouse Chalet will be named Hanes Valley (Lynn Park to Grouse Chalet).
4. If the trail loops through two popular destinations, name the landmark after the two destinations and define the 'loop' element. For example, Lions and Harvey Loop. The same rule can be applied for more than two destinations.
5. If there are no distinctive destination, use the park name. For example, Grouse (from McKay Trail, Via Baden Powell, to BCMC).
A trail name is composed of four elements. The first element is required and other three are optional:
1. Landmark element (required) is the identifier of the main distinctive landmark that the trail goes to such as a lake or peak. If the landmark has a synonym, add the synonym after the landmark separated by a slash.
2. from Trailhead, via Intermediate point, to trailend elements (optional): In many cases, they are the starting and ending parking lots.
3. in Park name: this element is used when the landmark or the trail name is commonly used and not distinctive enough to identify the trail.
4. One way, roundtrip, or loop elements (optional) which describes if the trail is done one way, roundtrip, or a loop.
The second and the third elements must always be set inside parentheses. The four element must only be surrounded by parentheses when the second or third element is not defined.
Examples of legitimate names are:
1. Landmark
2. Landmark (from Trailhead)
3. Landmark (Trailhead to Treadend)
4. Landmark (Trailhead to Treadend) one way
5. Landmark (one way)
6. Landmark/Synonym
7. Landmark (in Park)
Here are the rules of choosing the right elements:
1. If there is only one trail or if it is a popular trail to a destination, only the Landmark element need to be specified. It will be named after the destination. For example, the trail to Garibaldi Lake will be named Garibaldi Lake.
2. If there are more than one trail to the destination: define the trailhead location in the title. For example, the trail to the Lions that starts from Cypress Parking Lots will be named Lions (from Cypress Parking Lots).
3. If the trail ends at a different place than the trailhead, define the trailhead and trailend elements. For example, The Hanes Valley trail that starts from Lynn Park and ends at Grouse Chalet will be named Hanes Valley (Lynn Park to Grouse Chalet).
4. If the trail loops through two popular destinations, name the landmark after the two destinations and define the 'loop' element. For example, Lions and Harvey Loop. The same rule can be applied for more than two destinations.
5. If there are no distinctive destination, use the park name. For example, Grouse (from McKay Trail, Via Baden Powell, to BCMC).