Finding A Site Or Hike

One of the main activities on Austin Explorer and Texas Hiking is finding locations to explore. There are a couple of different ways to find a specific location or browse for activities or sites in a general area. Here are a couple of scenarios.

Finding a specific location by name

Click on the Find A Hike link in the menu on the left hand side of every page.
Type in a portion of the hike in which you're interested in the Keywords field of the Find A Hike page.
Press the Find button near the bottom of the screen.
If any hikes in the database matched the keywords you entered they will be included in a table on the Search Results page.
Determine which hike is the one you're looking for an click on the hike's name to go to the details page for it.

Finding specific types of locations

Get to the location type specific "Find A ..." page as described in the walk through above. In this example we'll use the Find A Hike page once again.
In this case we'd like to find hikes between 5 an 10 miles in length that people have enjoyed a lot. So first, we enter "5" and then "10" in the Distance fields.
Then we select 4.0 in the first Enjoyability pull down list. By keeping the second list unchanged at 5.0 we'll search for hikes that other users have said they really enjoyed.
Press the Find button at the bottom of the form.
A list of hikes that match the supplied criteria is displayed on the results page in tabular form. Click on a hike name to go to its detail page.

Browsing sites on a map

Click on the Map Hikes link in the menu on the left hand side of every page.
Click and drag your mouse over the map to scroll the view. The arrow buttons in upper left hand corner of the map display can also be used to scroll.
Double click on the map to zoom in, or use the + and - buttons on the upper left hand side of the display to zoom in or out.
Hover the mouse over an icon on the screen to see its name.
Click on an icon to open a new window with details about the site or hike in question.