What is List Hiker?
List Hiker keeps track of peak-bagging and trail lists for you. Point it at the places you already record hikes (Strava, Apple Health, old exports, a spreadsheet) and it matches each GPS track to the peaks and trail segments you crossed, then updates every list you're working on. One hike can count toward several lists at once.
It covers 16 lists today, mostly in the Northeast: the NH 48 4,000-Footers, 52 With a View, NH 100 Highest, the Terrifying 25 (34 trail segments), Trailwrights 72, the Belknap Range, Maine 14, Vermont 5, New England 67 and 100, Northeast 115, the Adirondack 46 and the Catskill 3500. Outside the Northeast there are the Colorado 14ers, the Colorado Centennials and the Georgia 4000-Footers. It's made by List Hiker LLC in Bedford, New Hampshire, and it's free, on the web and as an iPhone app.
Key Features
Automatic matching
Each hike is checked against the peaks and full trail segments on your lists as it arrives, and every match is confidence-rated, so you can see how sure it is. If your GPS died before the summit, you can override a match or add a peak yourself and the progress recalculates.
The list rules
Matching a hike is half the job; each list also has its own completion rules. List Hiker checks season boundaries (some lists use astronomical seasons, others calendar ones), lists that allow one peak per hike, segments that must be hiked in full, lists that changed over time, and peaks where you rode a lift or train to the top. Variations it tracks include Winter, Four-Season, Single-Season, Grid, Every Calendar Day, 48-over-70 and repeat rounds. When you finish, on many lists it fills out a validated application for the sponsoring organization, ready to sign and send.
Your old records
Bring in exports from services you stopped using, GPX, TCX and FIT files, the spreadsheet you've kept your list in, or a photo of a paper list (that last one is marked beta). Tune-Up looks for duplicate recordings, mislabeled activities and watches left running in the car; clear-cut fixes are one click, and it asks when only you know the answer.
The iPhone app
Apple Health sync, including Apple Watch hikes, is iPhone-only. So is the photo scan, which looks at when and where your photos were taken, on the device, to find hikes you never logged and to build albums for each hike. Peak Locator helps find the true summit on remote peaks and bushwhacks, most of the app works offline, and there's a GPS recorder if you'd rather record in List Hiker. It needs iOS 18 or later.
Who It's For
- Hikers working on a list it covers, especially in New Hampshire, the Adirondacks and the Catskills, who'd rather not keep a spreadsheet
- Anyone chasing a Winter, Grid or Every Calendar Day finish, where the dates and rules are easy to get wrong by hand
- People with years of hikes spread across old apps and notebooks who want one record
- Android users, on the web. There's no Android app yet (the site says one is coming), but hikes that sync to Strava come through
