Muddy Boots

A private workspace for one hiking group.

Muddy Boots is an app for organizing and logging hikes, built for a single group of friends who have been walking together since 2014. It holds their shared record: every hike, the photos from it, the trips they plan, and the money they split along the way.

What it does

  • Keeps a shared log book of every hike, walk and run the group records.
  • Plans trips: dates, who is coming, the trail, and a briefing on what to expect.
  • Splits and settles the costs of a trip between whoever went.
  • Collects the group's photos in one place instead of scattered across phones.
  • Tracks which US National Parks each member has reached.
  • Flies any recorded route as a 3D animation over real terrain.

Who it is for

Thirteen people, by invitation only. There is no public sign-up, no way to create an account, and no waiting list. Members are added by hand by the group's organiser. If you have arrived here without an invitation there is nothing on this site for you to use, and nothing is asked of you.

What it does not do

Stated plainly, because a private app with a sign-in screen and no public content is easy to mistake for something else:

  • It never asks for a password. Sign-in is handled entirely by Google, on Google's own pages.
  • It takes no payments, and stores no card, bank or government-ID details.
  • It sells nothing, advertises nothing, and has no affiliate links.
  • It distributes no software, extensions or downloads.
  • It does not imitate any other company, product or sign-in page. Everything here is the group's own.
  • It shares nothing publicly. Members' activity is visible only to the other members.

Who built it

Anand Almal, a member of the group and a product designer, built and runs it as a personal project. It is not a company and not a commercial product. Questions can go to the support page.

How your information is handled

Members sign in with Google, and the app receives only a name, an email address and a profile picture. Members can connect Strava if they choose, to import their own activities. Everything else in the app was put there by the members themselves. The privacy policy and terms set this out in full.