I took advantage of the seven-day free trial of the pro version of the AllTrails app and loved it. As someone new to hiking, I’m not yet confident enough to just ‘go out and explore’ and so I really benefited from being able to search for routes in a specific area before heading out. The easy/moderate/hard ratings and reviews of the routes from other users also made it easy to find a suitable route.Now that my free trial is over, I have found I cannot download the route maps to use offline when my phone signal is bad (as it usually is in the remote areas I tend to hike) and so I’m very much tempted to sign up to the £29.99 yearly membership after such a good experience with the free trial. As a student with not so great cash flow, however, I just wish they had the option to pay for the subscription monthly instead!
