Simulator · Twelve weeks to the trailhead

Training Simulator

Enter your departure date, your current fitness and the adventure, and the simulator builds a week-by-week training plan backwards from the trip: walks, stairs, load and rest, with the long day each weekend growing towards the hardest stage.

Fitness for a trek or a high-altitude trip is built in weeks, not bought at the airport. The simulator takes the target, which is the longest stage of the adventure with the pack you will carry, and works back to today with the standard progression: ten percent more a week, a lighter week every fourth, and a taper in the last ten days.

Simulators

One place, one month, one calendarJourney SimulatorChoose a place, a month, the days you have and how you travel. The simulator lays out a day-by-day timeline with temperatures, daylight, sleeping altitude, effort and cost, and flags the days where the model gets nervous. Open

What the month does to the placeClimate SimulatorHighs, lows and rain days for all twelve months of any place, with a feels-like line, a clothing verdict and a side-by-side comparison of up to three places for the month you can travel. Open

Sunrise, sunset and the polar casesDaylight SimulatorAny latitude, any date: sunrise, sunset, day length, civil twilight and the golden hours, drawn as an arc. It knows about the midnight sun and the polar night, and it shows how fast the day changes around your dates. Open

The Simulation Brief

One place, one simulator, one honest number. Every second Sunday.

No newsletter theatre. A short e-mail with the place we modelled, what the model said and what the ground said back.