Hiker Apps

Ever wondered exactly when it truly gets dark? While sunset times are easy to find, it's harder to know how long you’ll have natural light before reaching for your flashlight. LunaSolCal is one of the apps that can provide you this information and I chose it over the other similar apps because it can be configured to display the civil twilight period in a simple widget on my Android phone:

lunasolcal widget

My Lightning Tracker is a great app for tracking lightning strikes worldwide in close to real time. The feature to alert you of lightning strikes close to you can be very valuable for hikers, specially during the summer when sudden thunderstorms are not rare.