Most of the iWalk Cornwall routes are between 4-6 miles which very roughly corresponds to 2-4 hours walking time. This can either be done as a half-day walk, or as a longer day out with time left over to explore beaches and stop for a meal in a café etc.
To support walks longer than this, on the information page about each walk within the "Walks shop" section of the app, many of the walks have an "Adjoining walks" section.
This allows a more demanding walk to be planned by stitching 2 of the normal circular routes together to make a longer figure-of-8 walk. Here are some tips for how you can use the app to do this:
To support walks longer than this, on the information page about each walk within the "Walks shop" section of the app, many of the walks have an "Adjoining walks" section.
This allows a more demanding walk to be planned by stitching 2 of the normal circular routes together to make a longer figure-of-8 walk. Here are some tips for how you can use the app to do this:
- Just before you approach the point where the 2 routes join, exit the first walk and load up the second. This will gives the app chance to track you approaching the direction point on the second walk, and it will start recording progress for the second walk.
- If the first walk meets the second walk part-way around:
- once you reach a direction point on the second walk, the app will offer to start the second walk from this location (accept).
- When you reach the end of what's normally the second walk, make your way to direction 1 and the app will offer to continue navigating from here (accept).
- As you approach the point where the 2 walks join, exit the second walk and open the first walk. All your progress on the first walk will have been saved so the app will detect you approaching the direction point where the 2 routes meet and lead you around the remainder of the first walk.
Joining walks to make a big circle rather than figure-of-8
Where 2 routes join along an edge (share a common section of path), if you want to miss this bit out and just do the big circle created by the rest of their edges you can do the following:
- Once you reach the point where the 2 routes first meet, switch to the second walk and follow this from here (as described above).
- When you eventually meet the first route again, switch back to the first walk.
- You'll be further ahead on the first walk than when you left it (as you've missed out the bit of path common to both walks by doing the second walk instead).
- When you reach a direction point on the route of the first walk, the app will ask if you want to skip ahead (on the first walk) to this point.
- Say yes and then follow the first walk the rest of the way to where you started it.