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Terms of use

Last updated November 6, 2026

Trail Finder is a free map app for mountain biking, skiing, hiking, hunting, fishing and adventure moto in Canada. The first time you open it, you tap I agree to accept these terms, and using the app means you accept them. If you don't agree, please don't use it. If you're under the age of majority where you live, a parent or guardian must agree for you and is responsible for your use.

The outdoors is dangerous. You go at your own risk. Trail Finder is a guide, not a guarantee. Check conditions yourself, ride, ski, hunt and fish within your skills, carry what you need, and tell someone where you're going.

Your decisions are your own

Everything in the app (routes, the Skiing Less exposed way, avalanche and slope readings, off-trail routes, loops, unofficial trails, grades, conditions and other users' posts) is information to help you plan. It is never advice, and never a decision made for you.

You alone decide whether to go, where to go, which way to take and when to turn back, and you accept all the risk. In no circumstances are Trail Finder or the people who make it responsible for your decisions or for what happens because of them, including accidents, injury, illness, death, getting lost, rescue or evacuation costs, fines, and loss of or damage to gear, vehicles or other property, for you or for anyone with you.

You tell someone else what the app showed you at your own risk too: if you share a route, a tour or a spot, the people you share it with make their own decisions, and Trail Finder isn't responsible to them either.

When you first open the app you tap I agree to these terms, and before your first route or tour of each kind the app asks you to tap I understand and accept on a short version of this.

Trails, roads and land

Avalanches and winter travel

Avalanche danger, slope shading and route checks come from Avalanche Canada (and the Japan Avalanche Network in Japan) and from our own reading of the terrain. They don't replace avalanche training, the official forecast at avalanche.ca, your own judgment on the slope, or the gear (transceiver, probe, shovel) and a partner. Slackcountry and backcountry areas are outside ski patrol.

Backcountry routes and avalanche tools

Every backcountry tool in the app is a computer's estimate to help you plan. None of them tells you a slope or a route is safe, and none of them makes the decision for you.

  • Less exposed way and Plan a tour. The app picks a line by weighing slope angle, aspect, time spent on or under steep slopes, terrain traps, the regional danger rating and the weather. How much each one counts is our judgment from avalanche course rules of thumb, not measured odds. Its steps, Why this way and Watch out come from the same model. You turn it on for each tour. It draws no way when the danger is High or Extreme or when there's no forecast, and that doesn't mean other days are safe.
  • Terrain model. It works from a 10 to 30 m elevation map. It can't see cornices, wind loading, small slopes, cliffs, crevasses, tree density, open creeks or today's snowpack.
  • ATES terrain classes. Where a park or Avalanche Canada publishes an official rating, the app shows it as we copied it, and it can be out of date. Everywhere else the class is our own estimate, not an official rating.
  • Danger ratings and trip-planner lights (Normal, Extra caution, Not recommended) follow Avalanche Canada's forecast and Avaluator chart. A forecast covers a whole region and can be late or missing. The light is for planning, not a go or no-go decision on the day.
  • Weather, new snow, wind, rain and warming come from weather models (Open-Meteo and others) and can be wrong, especially in the mountains.
  • Official status (Rogers Pass restricted areas, gondola and lift status, road and trail closures, park notices) is copied from the people who run them and can be late or wrong. Their own sign or website is what counts.
  • GPS tracks, skin tracks, heatmaps and other people's trips show where someone went once. They don't mean it was safe then, or that it's safe now.
  • Alerts (avalanche danger, watched tours, late-trip alerts) can arrive late or not at all. No alert doesn't mean nothing changed.

Hunting and fishing rules

Seasons, zones, limits, no-shooting areas and fishing rules in the app are short summaries to help you plan. The official regulations of your province or territory are what count: read them, and check for closures and changes before you go. Crown land and property lines are approximate. Ask before going on private land.

Navigation and live location

Don't rely only on your phone: batteries die, GPS drifts and there may be no signal. Live location and late alerts need signal and can fail. They aren't a rescue service. In an emergency, call 911.

AI answers

Photo find, Ask in plain words and fish ID use Google's AI (only if you say yes, 18 or older). AI answers can be wrong. Check a fish's species and the rules before you keep it.

What you post

When you post a trail report, a grade, a photo, a rider-added trail or a shared ride:

Fair use

Don't copy the app's data in bulk, try to break or overload it, or get around its daily limits. Free services have limits; some features may stop for the day when they're reached.

Other people's content

Maps, photos, webcams and data belong to their owners (see How it works → Credits). Links to other sites are for your convenience; we don't control them.

You take on the risk

Mountain biking, skiing, ski touring, snowmobiling, hiking, hunting, fishing, boating and adventure moto can hurt or kill you, even when you do everything right. You choose to do them knowing that, and you accept all those risks. To the extent the law allows, you give up any claim against Trail Finder and the people who make it for anything that happens because you used the app or followed what it showed, including claims that we were careless (negligent), for yourself and for anyone who might claim through you.

We don't watch over you

Trail Finder doesn't check conditions for you, doesn't know where you are unless you share it, and has no duty to warn you. A warning the app doesn't show doesn't mean there's nothing to warn about.

No warranty

The app is given as it is, with no promise that it's accurate, complete or always working. To the extent the law allows, Trail Finder and the people who make it aren't responsible for any accident, injury, illness, death, rescue cost, or loss of or damage to property, or any other loss, from using the app or relying on it, its routes or other users' posts, even if we made a mistake. If we are found responsible anyway, the most we owe is CA$100. You agree to cover our reasonable costs if someone makes a claim against us because you broke these terms or the law. Some places, including Quebec, don't allow some of these limits, so they apply only as far as the law there allows.

Changes

These terms can change. The date at the top changes too. When a change matters, the app shows it to you and asks you to tap I agree again before you go on. If you don't agree, you can stop using the app and delete your account.

Law and the rest

These terms follow the laws of British Columbia and of Canada, and the courts of British Columbia decide any dispute, unless the law where you live gives you other rights (in Quebec, Quebec consumer protection law applies). If a part of these terms can't be enforced, the rest still applies.

Contact

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