How do I import and organize activities into List Hiker?

Every hike you have ever recorded can live in List Hiker — and you never have to type a GPS coordinate to get it there. It all starts on Add or Sync Activities, where there are three ways in.

1. Connect it once and forget about it

Connect Strava and List Hiker pulls in your history and keeps up with new activities as you record them. Or install the List Hiker iPhone app and turn on Apple Health sync — every workout your Apple Watch or iPhone records flows in on its own, with its track.

This is the path most hikers want: set it up on a rainy evening, then never think about it again.

2. Drop in whatever you already have

Drag your files onto the import card — or click it and browse. List Hiker figures out what it is looking at:

• Track files — GPX, TCX, or FIT, one at a time or hundreds at once, loose or inside a ZIP.
• Full account exports — the download-your-data ZIP from Garmin, Strava, Runkeeper, Outdooractive, or AllTrails.
• Spreadsheets — the list-tracking spreadsheet you have kept for years, in almost any shape.
• Photos of paper (beta) — a snapshot of a handwritten checklist or a peak-bagging logbook page.

You don't have to tell it which is which. Pick your source from Help me with on the import card for step-by-step export instructions for your app or watch.

3. Type it in — quickly

Hikes from before you carried a GPS still count. Enter Manually opens a simple grid: one row per hike, with a date, a name, and the peaks or segments you visited. Start typing a peak name and pick it from the list. That's a whole season of history in a couple of minutes. Need more detail on a hike — start time, distance, elevation gain, notes? Click the edit icon at the end of the row.

What List Hiker does with it

Once an activity is in, the work happens on its own:

• Matching. Your GPS track is compared against every peak summit and trail segment List Hiker knows about, and the ones you actually reached are attached to the hike.
• Progress. Every list you track updates immediately — including the lists' real certification rules, like winter dates, single-season windows, or one-peak-per-hike restrictions.
• No duplicates. The same hike imported twice — once from Strava, once from a Garmin export — is recognized as one hike, not two.
• Whole days, not fragments. If you stopped and restarted your watch at the col, Clean Up on My Activities offers to merge those legs back into the single traverse they really were.

Keeping it tidy

My Activities is where you organize everything: search and filter your history, merge or split hikes, correct a date, and add or remove a matched peak when a track was too noisy for List Hiker to be sure. Nothing is locked — if something looks wrong, you can fix it, and your progress recalculates on the spot.

Still stuck, or have a source we haven't thought of? Let us know — we would like List Hiker to import it.