Hiking With Gaia GPS For Beginners 

Thank you very much for including what it looks like when you're following a track. Oddly, yours is the only video I found that includes this beginner information. Thanks again.

Extremely helpful! Thank you!!!

This was a great intro video, thank you!

Love the video! Super helpful, thank you.

Wow, great job on this. Learning a lot from your channel. Thanks!

Discount code still works. Thank you!

Thanks for this.

Well done, thanks.

Great video, there are a lot of features in Gaia and a lot to take in, so thanks for a great informative video.

Thank you!

Nice! I’m in the market for a GPS unit and this helps

Outstanding! I'm both excited about this technology, and at the same time, a little concerned if I should begin selling my existing dedicated handheld GPS devices! 🤭

Hey man - thank you so much for your content! I just moved to OC and so these videos hit both needs for me 1) super instructional and 2) I see all the hikes laid out for SoCal on your site. Man I am excited!!!! It's like having an expert personal guide for these hikes. Takes the guessing out of it

Awesome! Thanks.

Great video

Thank you

Thank you for sharing. This explains a lot! I've been hiking Western NC by the seat of my pants...and I think I need a GPS. This helps explain the interface to the phone.

Good job

Great video to explain in plain English what I've been fiddling around with GAIA for a year now. I still find some aspects incredibly frustrating, the folder organization is probably my biggest pet peeve. GAIA conventions fly in the face of normal computing organizational standards. I reached out to tech support with questions, but after a weeks wait there is still no answer. I keep vacillating on shucking GAIA and going to AllTrails, jury is still out. Videos like yours gives me hope I will someday understand this software.

It would be great if they showed parking area's near the trails. Also, area's you can camp, not just campgrounds but dispersed camping as well would be cool It would be even more fantastic if they could let you know when a campsite is free. Some place don't charge any fees off season, but some do and its hard to know which.

Thanks!

I've been curious to see how to integrate gaia GPS with my garmin inreach mini2. I see some interesting stuff on your website that may help but if you have any resources I would appreciate seeing them. Thank You for the cool vids.

I am a beginner. I bought an In Reach mini over a year ago. I can use it to notify family my current location. But, what a pain to try to sinc with my phone with my proposed route. My goal is: 1. to text on my phone rather than the Mini, 2. put my phone in airplane and view a downloaded map on earthmate. So Gaia looks pretty user friendly for a non-tech person like me. Is the following what I need to do: 1. Subscribe to Gaia, 2. Find my next hike in WA state, 3. set my course on the Gaia map or use one already established (for example hiking trail to the summit of Mt Townsend), 4. once the course/map is set on Gaia then download to my phone, 5. at the trailhead pull up my downloaded map in Gaia, 6 place my phone in Airplane mode, 7. sinc phone with In Reach mini, 8. start hike, 9. anyplace along hike I can view my position on my phone via Earthmate which has the Gaia map loaded. Do I need an app like Gaia in order to have a map that I track on Earthmate? Or am I supposed to find a map on Earthmate, set up a route, save it somewhere like on my computer and then download to my phone, etc. Your comments are appreciated.

Another great video presentation. I can't get enough from all the information you share. So when I turn the iPhone to Airplane mode and if I am not in the city and have no cell coverage, how does GAIA know where I am? If the phone is paired with Inreach or Zoleo, will it use Satellite data to tell me where I am real time? Will it show the progress on the screen? Thanks

It's a subscription service now.

Quick question, after you create a route and set all the way points you want, to be able to use route offline do you still have to go to the download maps tab and download it then click on the recent downloaded to use offline?

Thank you! I don't use desktop Gaia, so I must be missing out some good functions.

My left side bar does not look like that, is there a reason? Thanks

Thank you for the video, when you turn your iPhone off, how do you have GPS capabilities?

First!!! 🤘🏻😎🤘🏻

how come their search is so limited? When I type in the "Appalachian Trail" it only gives two location choices. When I try to type in a street name that's connected to the Appalachian trail like Dennytown road, I get nothing.

Great! I normally use All Trails which is somewhat similar. Have you had some experience with All Trails?

I'm curious if the watch app for gaia has been updated with better usability with the apple watch series 7 that I just ordered?

Thanks so much for the video. I have a question for you on using the Gaia app on my iPhone. If I am out of cell phone coverage, can the app still let me know where I am on a map and get me back to my car when I am going off trail hiking? Appreciate any advice you have.

I'm just coming up to speed with Gaia and appreciate your videos. What do you think of Gaia in light of the large increase in the annual subscription fee?

I need a backtrack or if I’m lost

Hi, I’m trying to find your video on using the track back feature on Gaia gps, can’t find any advice on following the track back to car. On Garmin I just reverse copy the track. Thank you.

What do you recommend on trail without cell service, Gaia or Caltopo? My Gaia subscription expires in days and it has increased the price and am wondering if Caltopo is better.

When you create your route, do you need to do it on your computer? Can you do it on your phone? I found it is not so easy to do this on the phone. I just started using this, found harder to use than all trails.

Do you have a workflow for finding hikes in gaia and exporting gpx to upload to Garmin?

Does this app work if need to get back to a campsite after getting dropped off at a trail? Scenario would be pinning my campsite somehow, getting dropped off and then finding my way back to my camper. Even if you lose the trail can it show which way I need to go by where my pinned campsite is? Thank you!

Can it record in the background or after the screen is turn off?

Does recording your hike use noticeably more battery life?

I tried a simple track this morning and find it drains the iPhone battery FAST. Do you experience this? Thx

I only hike in the nude, you should make videos on the nude hiking season

I know I'm late to the video. I have a question about the app. does it also include closures or restricted areas? For example we have a national monument here and one of the mountains in it, is closed off to the public (permanently). Would the app show that on one of it's maps?

If this is really a tutorial for beginners, you need to tell us the URL for the Gaia website.