I love apps like this. It does one thing well and imaginatively, and taps directly into a core human need for routine and forward progress. It uses my daily step count to simulate hiking the Pacific Crest Trail. By combining the morning exercise walks I take most days with the general steps I rack up throughout the day, the virtual character advances along the trail map.

If last year is any indication, I don’t think I’ll quite make the full 2,650-mile trek, but I can’t wait to see where I end up.

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