The staff at Kynd Outdoors recognizes that the most important aspect of our site is delivering useful information on hiking destinations.
Kynd Hiking offers you the most valuable hiking destination information you can find online. Kynd Outdoors offers all the same (and then some) social functionality you expect from other community sites but again, our primary focus is useful hiking destination information.
Here's just a few reasons why Kynd Hiking is the best:
Hiking reports, interactive destination maps, destination descriptions, destination pictures, businesses
that service the destinations you love.
There is so much more to discover but the essentials are here for you... all for FREE!
Key Hiking Functionality
You will find the functionality you need...
Destinations
Hiking reports, detailed destination descriptions with Google Maps, news articles for destinations, destination pictures, destination videos, flow data for every U.S. state, and more!
News
The latest hiking news articles.
Blogs
The latest blog posts from hiking bloggers from around the globe.
Pictures
Incredible pictures of hikers and the destinations hikers love to hike.
Businesses
Detailed business profiles, businesses plotted on Google maps, exceptional services for business owners (we help you grow), and more!
Hiking Community
Hiking community profiles, events, classifieds, interactive glossary, groups, gear reviews, and more!
Questions and Answers
Every section on the site that needs a Q&A section has a Q&A section! Fly hikers can ask a question about every applicable topic. And any Kynd hiking member can respond.
Widgets
The widgets are cool little portable web apps that Kynd members can insert to any webpage or blog where they have access to code.
Valuable Hiking Services
FREE Services for Every Member
Blog
Bloggers who add their feed link to Kynd Outdoors and then follow the linking instructions can take advantage of our blog service. This service takes all blog posts that have been validated and publishes them within 24 hours on KyndOutdoors.com. Because they are published here, that means they are instantly published on Facebook and Twitter. In addition, they will show up in Google's search results and will have a direct link back to the original blog.
Google Maps
Kynd Hiking Community members are able to post hiking trip maps utilizing Google Maps and Kynd's interactive technology so other members can understand where they hiked.
Facebook
Any activity that a member posts about a Kynd hiking destination will get posted on Facebook. This means that not only will content related to destinations (pictures, reports, etc) be published on KyndOutdoors but on Facebook as well.
YouTube
The YouTube service sniffs out a Kynd member's specific tag and brings the videos into the site. That means a Kynd member can add a tag to their YouTube video(s) and when the service finds it, it will pull it into the site and post it within 48 hours.
Widget
The widget services allow members to publish their Kynd content anywhere on the Internet. Currently Kynd offers the following hiking widgets: Reports, Pictures, News, Blogs. If a member posts any content in one of those categories it will show up on the widget. Then whenever that widget is published (code gets copied/pasted) on a site or blog, the content is published as well.
PDF
The PDF service allows users to print out or send PDF documents for specific Kynd hiking destinations. This allows people to take the content (most of it) they find on the destination details page and either share it with someone as an attachment or print it and take it with them to the destination.
Twitter
The Twitter service takes certain content each day and publishes it to Twitter. The feed (.xml format) is also available by clicking on the title of the day's post from twitter's site. http://www.twitter.com/id3ma
Report
The report service takes all hiking report content from a specific Kynd member and makes it available via RSS (.xml) or a Flash (.swf) widget. Anytime a report is added the site will remind you how to take advantage of this.
Services for Businesses (Free!)
Google Maps
Any valid hiking businesses that lists their latitude and longitude will get a pinpoint on the Google Map that displays for the state where the business is located. The map is interactive and when the pushpin is clicked a balloon will display more information for that business along with a link to the business details page.
Directory
Any valid hiking businesses that lists their details on the site gets a free listing on the Kynd Hiking Directory. Similar to Blacks, but free, this list is an excellent resource and you should get your business on it now. Click here to learn more.
Reservation
On the details page for a business, Kynd Outdoors posts an option for the user to contact or make a reservation with the business. This service will put the business in touch with prospective clients who want to hike in the businesses vicinity.
Listing
The listing service puts valid hiking businesses on the destination details page for all destinations the business indicates that they focus on. That means that hikers looking for information on a specific hiking destination will see the business name listed if the business services it.
Locked Services for Businesses (Free!)
Leads
The leads service will send businesses a notification when a potential client is identified. Click here to learn more.
Report Update
The report update service will notify all Kynd Hiking members who follow a business when that business has added a hiking report (also called trip report). Click here to learn more.
