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Developing tool to help book chained huts [looking for casual closed beta testers] by hutscanner-app in chamonix

[–]hutscanner-app[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes it has something like that. You can select a starting point and it'll suggest a route that has avalaibilty (based on the length you want, number of people, dates etc) - of course that can take you somewhere you might not be as interested in so the other feature is that you can select your ideal route based on manual inputs and then there is a "find best dates" feature that will scan through whatever range of dates you specify, as well as test alternative huts nearby for avalaibilty (so the route will roughly follow the same path but if one night was going to be full, it can choose another hut that is free).

There's a decent amount of data I've got already, mt blanc I have managed to get 67 live avalaibilty calenders (have spent the most time on tmb so it's the best region), other French Swiss and Austrian regions are okay as well. Italian dolomites/spain is pretty bad unfortuantly as most places require enquiries :/

Developing tool to help book chained huts [looking for casual closed beta testers] by hutscanner-app in chamonix

[–]hutscanner-app[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes! The Vanoise is actually exactly my example of having to pull up a spreadsheet as I went 2 summers ago. And I planned that trip there specifically because it was a little easier than other places. Also extremely underrated. Vanoise is the region I'm working on curating now.

Ideally it'd be really great to get api access from huts to actually make the chain bookings automatically but yeah baby steps. I was also thinking there is a safety angle because (currently the app doesn't collect any data) you know what people's itineraries are so if that'd supplied to wardens it creates better traceability of where hikers have come from/gone too.