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Spring is one of two transition period on our planet. The Northern Hemisphere acrs toward the sun and beings to heat up, while the Southern Hemisphere backs away begins to cool off. It's also a great time for a couple of new updates to the app.

First off, we have new monthly recaps. You can make a brief slideshow about your mountain/outdoor activities during the last month and share it with you friends.

Secondly, we've introduced the "Your Next Adventure" feature. PeakVisor is now offering personalized and highly local trail recommendations, as well weekend weather and avalanche forecasts, right in the menu section. You can quickly shuffle through a few tabs to find some inspiration and get a sense of conditions.

Whether you're hiking, skiing, biking, kayaking, wingsuiting, surfing, spelunking, or just picking wildflowers in a meadow somewhere (maybe the best activity of them all), get out there and enjoy the spring (or fall, in the SH). It's a beautiful time of year and you won't see it again for a while!

Cheers from the PeakVisor Team.

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The most important winter we rolled out this past winter has been avalanche forecasts (from the local government avalanche bulletin) and user-submitted observations on avalanche activity and snow conditions.

In our latest update, we've added to that with avalanche problems (e.g. wet snow, persistent weak layer, etc.) visible directly on the map.

The app takes the information from the local avalanche report, and generates an overlay showing the risk based on the report and the surrounding terrain.

It's a great tool to quickly visualize problem sections on a planned or proposed route before even heading out.

Of course, the devil is always in the details and the avy report is no exception. We recommend also reading the report to gain a deeper understanding of how the snowpack is behaving, rather than just a couple words describing the most prominent avalanche problem. After understanding teh report, the overlay is great to have while heading up the route.

This is now included in our latest update as of writing, v5.92.

Have a great touring season and stay safe!

Avalanche problems overlayed onto our 3D maps.