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And there's something even better about lying in your sleeping bag the night before a big stage, reading through what's coming: the climb out of the valley, the pass at 2,700m, the refuge where you'll have dinner. It gets you excited. It also means you start the next morning knowing exactly what you're walking into.",[],{"type":84,"text":1081,"spans":1082,"direction":94},"If you've used the Hike Planner to build a multi-day itinerary, you know how much information goes into each stage. Start and end points, total distance, elevation gain and loss, the passes you cross, the huts or campsites available, viewpoints. It's a lot to document, especially if you're planning a long route with six or eight or ten stages.",[],{"type":84,"text":1084,"spans":1085,"direction":94},"The new AI feature takes all of that data and writes a proper travel guide from it, in one click. 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If you already have a multi-day route in progress, it's worth opening it up and generating the guidebook, that's usually where the output is most useful, especially once your stages are fully built out. And if you have questions about your plan that you've been holding onto, the Chat Assistant is a good place to start.",[],{"type":84,"text":1112,"spans":1113,"direction":94},"Start planning with the Take a Hike Planner →",[1114],{"start":28,"end":1115,"type":567,"data":1116},45,{"link_type":569,"url":696,"target":697},"text_block$adcb0263-5b45-4d7d-9de0-91c9a410387b",{},"3f9f504","All Rights Reserved",1776278937241]