Tire cut beyond sealant
The remote-road layers show what you are committing to. Contingency plans name the nearest town with a bike shop, and its opening hours.
Activities · Cycling · Skill 1–3 · Low to high risk
Surface, gradient, water. In that order.
Road, gravel, mountain and loaded touring are four different problems wearing the same clothes. The routing engine knows the difference: surface preference, elevation gain ceiling and water spacing are constraints you set, not outcomes you accept.
01 / By the numbers
1–30dBikepacking tripOvernighter to a month
5Layers auto-enabledTrails, roads, water, campsites, elevation
4Surface classesPaved, gravel, dirt, singletrack
0Mechanical parts in the cloudThe route and the map are already on the device
02 / What the app enables
Pick the activity. The map configures itself.
These layers switch on together, because they are the set this activity actually needs. You can change any of them; the point is that the default is not a blank topo map.
- Trails and singletrack
- With difficulty and condition reports.
- Roads
- Including forest service and unmaintained roads that a car router will not touch.
- Bike lanes
- For the commuting and touring end of the range.
- Water
- Sources with community status, spaced against your carrying capacity.
- Campsites
- Established and dispersed, with legality where the parcel data exists.
- Elevation
- Gain, loss and maximum grade per segment, before you commit to it.
03 / Failure modes
The ways this actually goes wrong.
Every activity in NavTrax carries a documented failure-mode list, and each entry names the feature that addresses it. Not a disclaimer — a design input.
Getting lost on a remote road
Gravel and forest-service road networks are on the offline region, not just the paved ones.
Bonking
Water and resupply spacing is a routing constraint. The engine will not hand you a hundred-kilometer gap without telling you.
Vehicle collision
Route preference weights traffic exposure, and the app records the ride so a report has a track behind it.
Wrong trail difficulty
Difficulty is classified from distance, gain and maximum grade — the same classifier the whole routing engine uses.
04 / Practice
What the app assumes you already do.
- Tubeless with spares
- Kit list scoped to the surface class you chose.
- Navigation
- Offline region pinned, turn-by-turn without a signal.
- Tell someone
- Scheduled check-ins with escalation.
- Bright lights
- Because gravel days end after dark more often than planned.
05 / Curated kit
The gear list, scoped to this activity.
Pulled from the activity's own equipment profile and matched against the in-app store catalog. Nothing here is a generic recommendation.
BagsFrame, bar and seat packsBikepacking, not panniers
RepairTubeless plugs and spare tubePlus a boot
RepairMulti-tool and chain linkQuick link, matched to chain
WaterBottles and a filterSpaced to the route
SleepBivy or ultralight tentUnder 1 kg
NavigationPhone mount and batteryOffline region loaded
LightsFront and rearUSB-rechargeable
CommsSatellite messengerFor gravel that goes nowhere
06 / Under the hood
Constraint-based routing, end to end
Set the constraints. Let the engine argue.
Constraint-based and safety-aware routing are on Pro. Unlimited offline is Elite.