A cozy walking game for iPhone

Your daily walk is a thru hike.

Every mile you walk in real life moves your hiker one mile up the Pacific Crest Trail. The dog walk counts. The walk to get coffee counts. Keep going and one day you're standing at the monument on the Canadian border, 2,650 miles from where you started.

2,650miles, Mexico to Canada, at true scale

1 : 1one mile walked is one mile of trail

55real landmarks at their real mile markers

0ways to buy your way north

How it works

You already do the hard part.

2650 reads your walking and running distance from Apple Health. There's nothing to start and nothing to log. You live your day, then open the app and hike it.

The Southern Terminus monument at Campo, mile 0

1Walk like you always do

Your miles land in a bank that never expires. Busy week? They'll be waiting. A long Saturday hike? That's a whole stretch of desert.

2Hike today's miles

Take it slow and the trail stops for what you find: berries by the path, a roadrunner, a spring, another hiker heading north. In a hurry? Skip ahead and watch the day go by in ten seconds.

A lit tent and campfire at dusk with other hikers sitting by the fire

3Make camp where you stop

The tent goes up wherever your miles run out. Camp keeps real time, so the fire you stoked this morning is still going tonight.

Scroll to walk north

This is two miles of it.

Three real stretches of the trail, exactly as the game draws them. The desert below Eagle Rock. The granite shelf above Thousand Island Lake. The climb to Timberline Lodge on the side of Mt Hood. The whole trail is built like this, every mile of it, all the way to Canada.

mile 104.2the desert, San Diego County

A long stretch of desert trail with joshua trees, creek crossings and Eagle Rock — Desertmiles 104 to 106

A stretch of High Sierra trail over granite and snow past Thousand Island Lake — High Sierramiles 921 to 923

A stretch of Cascades trail through forest beside Mt Hood's snowfield to Timberline Lodge — Cascadesmiles 2,095 to 2,097

Real places, real miles

You'll know exactly where you are.

The landmarks sit at the mile markers hikers know them by. Eagle Rock is at 106. Kennedy Meadows is at 702, and when you get there the desert is behind you. Crater Lake shows up around 1,821 and it is every bit as blue as people say.

The Southern Terminus monument at the Mexican border — The Southern Terminusmile 0A monument and a fence in the desert. Everybody starts here.

The trail winding past Eagle Rock, a boulder shaped like a bird — Eagle Rockmile 106It really does look like an eagle.

The stone hut on Muir Pass — Muir Passmile 838The stone hut on the divide.

Thousand Island Lake beside the trail — Thousand Island Lakemile 923Banner Peak upside down in the water.

Burney Falls pouring over a mossy basalt wall — Burney Fallsmile 1,419The trail climbs right up beside it.

The rim of Crater Lake with Wizard Island — Crater Lakemile 1,821A cliff walk with the bluest water in America below.

Timberline Lodge with hikers out front — Timberline Lodgemile 2,097Famous for the breakfast buffet. Hikers plan around it.

The narrow Knife's Edge ridge with Mt Rainier beyond — Knife's Edgemile 2,287A catwalk in the Goat Rocks, with Rainier out past the drop.

Swipe for more

Desertmiles 0 to 700 · joshua trees, burn scars, superblooms

High Sierra700 to 1,500 · granite passes, alpine lakes, snow

Cascades1,500 to 2,650 · volcanoes, waterfalls, rain forest

Campo, CaliforniaManning Park, British Columbia

Vista posts

Some days the trail stops for a view.

When you walk up to a vista post, the day slows down and you can stop and take in the whole mountain. There are a dozen of them between the border and Canada.

The Whitney crest at sunrise — The Whitney crestBighorn Plateau, mile 770

Mt Shasta at dusk — Mt ShastaHat Creek Rim, mile 1,375

Mt Hood in alpenglow — Mt HoodTimberline, mile 2,097

Mt Rainier on a clear morning — Mt RainierKnife's Edge, mile 2,287

Side trails

Worth the detour.

A few junctions have a trail off to somewhere special. They're free, they don't use up your miles, and you can walk them again whenever you want.

A slice of pie in JulianShow your permit at the counter and it's on the house. Off mile 77.
San Jacinto PeakA hard climb off the trail, then the whole desert floor spread out below you. Off mile 179.
Mt Whitney at sunriseUp the 99 switchbacks in the dark with everyone else's headlamps. Off mile 766.
Behind Tunnel FallsA ledge, a tunnel blasted through the rock, and the falls roaring past. Off mile 2,147.

Whitney summit14,505 ft

Tunnel FallsEagle Creek

After the miles

Then the evening is yours.

Camp is where you spend the rest of the day. It runs on real time, it's different every night, and there's always one more small thing to do.

The people you keep passing

Ten other hikers are walking north with you. Sprint is always a day ahead. Turtle is always somewhere behind. You'll leapfrog each other for the whole trail, and on nights you get the guitar out, whoever's camped close by comes over and sits down.

Inside a teal dome tent with a sleeping bag, rug, shelves and a cat

A tent that turns into home

Start with a one person tent. Work up to a canvas lodge with a rug, a lantern, carvings on the shelf and a cat who found you at a trailhead and never left.

Inside the Lake Morena general store, the keeper behind the counter

Trail towns with people in them

Sell what you picked. Get a hot shower, a stamp in your passport, and a line from whoever's behind the counter. Dot at Lake Morena will tell you the campground is full of your kind.

Fishing from the shore of Lake Morena at dusk

Twenty fish, fourteen waters

Walk down to the lake with a rod. Some fish only live in one place. You'll find a golden trout in the High Sierra because you walked there.

Constellations traced across a night sky with the northern lights

Twelve constellations

Save up for the telescope and find three figures a night. Past central Oregon, some nights the northern lights come out.

A lantern lit tent and campfire at dusk near Lake Tahoe

Cook, whittle, forage

Keep the fire in the simmer band and stir on the beat. Carve a spoon out of juniper. The berry bushes by your tent grow back while you're at work.

Your pace

When would you reach Canada?

A real thru hike takes about five months of walking all day, every day. Here you walk your normal life. At five miles a day that's about a year and a half, which is long enough to feel like you went somewhere.

Walk more one week and less the next. Miles wait in the bank, and nobody is timing you.

How far do you walk in a day? 5 mi

1 mile8 miles15 miles

Dates count from today. Your iPhone already knows your real number.

Honest by design

Money can't buy miles.

There's a store and there are coins, and none of it moves you an inch. The only way north is walking.

No account, no ads

Open it and you're at mile 0. Nothing to sign up for, nothing popping up between you and the trail.

Your data stays put

2650 reads one number from Apple Health, your walking and running distance, and it never leaves your iPhone. Privacy policy

Works with no signal

Like the real trail, most of it happens out of range. The game doesn't need a connection.

Questions

Before you lace up.

Do I have to walk every day?

No. Your miles go in a bank and they never expire. Skip a week and they'll be there. The camp fire might burn out, but a match fixes that.

Does running count? What about a treadmill?

If your iPhone or Apple Watch counts it as walking and running distance in Apple Health, it counts on the trail.

I walked 30 miles on Saturday. Do I get to skip the whole desert?

You get all 30. The game hands out up to 40 miles of trail a day, so a huge weekend becomes a few great days on the trail instead of a blur. Nothing is ever lost.

I don't walk much. Is this still for me?

Yes. Two miles a day still gets you through the desert and into the High Sierra inside a year, and camp has plenty to do on slow days. It's cozy, not a fitness tracker yelling at you.

Is it on Android?

Not yet. 2650 is launching on iPhone first.

Mile 0 is a fence in the desert.

Everybody starts at the same monument by the border. Yours is the next time you go for a walk.