A new website, a new app on your phone, and a lot of little things that make the club feel more like yours. Here's what's new in V2.
Same club, same trails, but a proper mobile experience you can install on your phone and a platform that's been rebuilt 100% from the ground up to give you the best possible experience. Every page, every feature, every bit of plumbing was redesigned with you in mind.
The goal was simple. Make the platform easier to use, easier to find things on, and a lot more respectful of your data. Below is the short version, then a section per topic so you can read what matters to you and skip the rest.
TL;DR: the five things worth knowing
It's now an app. Add it to your home screen and the site behaves like a real app, with push notifications for bookings and reminders.
Find anything instantly. Tap the search icon from anywhere and search events, routes, posts, and members in one place.
A cleaner, calmer look. New icons, better mobile navigation, photo galleries that actually look good, and event difficulty at a glance.
Your data, your rules. Choose exactly what's visible on your profile, pick which notifications you want and where, export your data, or delete your account in one click.
Events are better, end to end. Transparent difficulty scoring (Energy Miles), smoother bookings, and recaps with proper galleries.
If that's enough, thanks for being part of the club, see you on the mountain. If you want the details, read on.
Install it on your phone
The site is now a Progressive Web App. On iPhone, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen. On Android, your browser will offer "Install app" automatically.
Once installed it opens full-screen, remembers you, and can send push notifications for booking confirmations, event reminders, new messages on events you've joined, and badge unlocks. You're in full control of which notifications you receive and whether they come by push, email, or both. More on that below.
The mobile layout has a new bottom navigation bar so the important things (events, search, your profile) are always one thumb-tap away.
Search that actually finds things
Tap the search icon from anywhere on the site to open the spotlight search. Type a word and you'll get instant results across events, routes, blog posts, and members. Arrow keys to navigate, Enter to open.
Need to dig deeper? The full search page lets you filter by type and paginate through results. Search is smart about sport types. Typing "hiking" surfaces hiking events even if the word isn't in the title.
A fresher, calmer look
A few things you'll notice:
New icon system: a unified, modern icon family across the whole site.
Proper hero images on every page, not just the homepage.
Photo galleries now use a justified layout (think Google Photos). Photos keep their aspect ratios and fill the row cleanly.
Difficulty bars on events and routes. A segmented coloured bar tells you at a glance whether something is a gentle Sunday stroll or a full-day leg-burner. More on that below.
Section cards with consistent design, subtle shadows, and edge-to-edge mobile layouts.
Responsive images everywhere. Your phone doesn't download desktop-sized photos anymore, so pages load faster on data.
Events, start to finish
Events got the biggest rework.
Energy Miles, a fair difficulty score. Every event and route now has a transparent difficulty score based on distance, elevation, and sport type. No more guessing whether "medium" means medium for a hiker or medium for a triathlete. The calculation is fully open. There's an Energy Miles explainer page that shows exactly how it works, and you can see per-day difficulty on multi-day events.
Smoother booking. Clear RSVP states (going, interested, pending payment), ticket support, per-event discussion threads, and sharing via your phone's native share sheet. One-tap Add to calendar exports the event to your calendar app.
Recaps with real galleries. Event recaps now live on the event page itself, with proper photo galleries, written summaries, and embedded maps with elevation profiles.
Your profile, your rules
Your profile is now yours to shape. A few highlights:
You decide what's public. Per-section privacy toggles let you show or hide each block independently: bio, stats, badge grid, activity, map, event history. Don't want your elevation stats public? One click. Want a fully private profile? Turn every block off.
You decide what to hear about, and where. Notification preferences give you per-topic control (bookings, reminders, event messages, new blog posts, badge unlocks, and more) with a separate choice of channel: push, email, or both.
The welcome flow walks new members through a first setup (avatar, country, birthday, height) with a live progress ring so you can see what's left.
Events grid on your profile: a tile per event in your membership period, yellow for attended, grey for skipped. Hover for the name.
Badges now show their story. Tap a badge on your profile to see the date you earned it and the event that unlocked it.
GDPR: the boring stuff, done properly
This was a big one behind the scenes, and it matters.
Export your data as a ZIP file: profile, bookings, badges, activity history, your uploaded photos, everything. One button on your profile.
Delete your account yourself. We send a confirmation email, then you have 14 days to change your mind before it's final. Cancel with one click any time during that window.
Email preferences live on a one-page signed link at the bottom of every email. No login required.
No tracking cookies. The built-in analytics are privacy-first: no cookies, rotated daily hashes, no fingerprinting. We know how many people read a page, not who.
A clear privacy page that actually says what we store and why.
The smaller wins
A few more things worth a mention:
Badges have been rebuilt from scratch. Instead of "you did 10 events", badges can now combine sport type, time of day, moon phase, weather, and more. Expect some cool new badges soon!
Email redesign. Proper hero images, card layouts, readable on dark-mode clients, consistent unsubscribe link.
Blog posts now support responsive image galleries, YouTube embeds, and author @mentions.
Accessibility improvements throughout: semantic HTML, keyboard navigation, better contrast.
Thanks, and what's next
Massive thanks to everyone who tested the beta, reported bugs, and put up with rough edges along the way. This club is only good because of the people in it.
A few things are still on the to-do list (leaderboards get another polish pass, more languages, a couple of notification types). If you spot something broken, something confusing, or something you'd love to see, drop a comment under this post. We read everything.
See you on the trail.
