About
Put in the distance, the ascent, the descent and the kind of ground, and Hillpace tells you how long the walk will take and what time you will be back. It applies five published walking-time rules, named and shown side by side rather than blended: Naismith from 1892, Langmuir's corrections for descent that Naismith ignores, the Munter method used for alpine planning, Scarf's equivalence, and Tobler's hiking function fitted to measured data. They disagree with each other, sometimes by an hour and a half on the same route, and that disagreement is information rather than something to hide behind an average. The part no published rule can do is the reason to keep using it. Log what your walks actually took and Hillpace solves for your own flat speed and your own climbing rate, separately, from your real days on the hill. Naismith described a fit Victorian on a good path, and the usual advice is to add a bit, which is not a number. After four walks you have one. Every logged walk then shows whether the rule ran short or long against you, so you can watch the gap close. It never asks for your location, never uses GPS and has no networking code at all. It is a calculator, not a tracker.
Features
- Five published rules, named and compared, never averaged
- Your arrival time, which is the number you actually act on
- Learns your own pace from the walks you log
- Flat speed and climbing rate fitted separately
- Shows whether each rule ran short or long against you
- Refuses to claim a climbing rate your walks cannot support
- No location, no GPS, no account, and works offline