Support

Email support@gohuck.app and you will get a real person. Huck is made by one person in Rathdrum, Idaho, so please allow a couple of days — and if you found a bug, the trail name and roughly where you were is enormously helpful.

Getting started

Do I need to download anything before I go?

No. The Idaho Panhandle is built into the app and works the moment you install it, with no network at all. The other five regions — Clearwater & Nez Perce, Salmon River Country, Boise & Owyhee, Sawtooth & Twin Falls, and Caribou-Targhee & Island Park — download free from the Downloads sheet.

Download regions before you leave.

Region packs run from about 80 MB to 130 MB and need a connection. Grab the ones you want on Wi-Fi at home; once installed they never need the network again.

Why does the app want my location?

To draw your position, to tell you which trail you are standing on, and to record a track when you start one. Everything else — browsing, searching, reading trail details — works without granting it.

On the trail

Recording with the screen off

Huck keeps recording with the phone in your pocket. On iPhone, iOS shows a location indicator while Huck records with the screen off; Huck also asks, once, whether it may use your location all the time. On Android, Huck needs no extra location permission for this, and shows a "Huck is recording your track" notification while it records. On Android 13 and later it asks to show notifications when you start recording, unless you already allow them; saying no hides the notification but not the recording. Expect meaningfully more battery use — a power bank is a good idea on a long day.

The map stopped following me

Panning the map hands control back to you, on purpose — you are usually panning because you want to look ahead. Tap the recenter arrow at the top of the zoom buttons to pick following back up. Starting a trail zooms in close and re-centers on you automatically.

Why can't I start a trail?

"Start trail" needs you to be within about 330 feet of the trail. From further off, the card shows how far away you are instead — and "Take me there" will drive you to it.

My position looks wrong or jumps around

GPS is poor under heavy canopy and in deep canyons. The shaded circle around your dot is the accuracy the phone reports; when it is large, trust it. Huck snaps your position to a nearby trail when it is confident, and you can tune or disable that in Settings.

Exporting a track

Open the track from the tracks list and share it — Huck writes a standard GPX file that any other mapping tool will read, or a KML file for Google Earth.

Huck+

What is free and what is not?

Free, permanently: the offline maps and hillshaded terrain, trail details and elevation profiles, search, favorites, GPS and the follow-me map, track recording and GPX export, waypoints, routes, and turn-by-turn driving directions to trailheads.

Since 1.5.1, the closures and restrictions layer, and trail season dates (when each season opens and closes, and whether it is open now), are free as well.

Huck+ adds:

• Hunting season dates for every species, and whether each is open now
• Draw odds and success rates for controlled hunts
• Slope and aspect layers
• The wind check on the compass
• Hunt units and elk zones
• Controlled hunt draw areas
• Wildlife management areas
• Public land: national forest, wilderness, BLM and state endowment ground
• Forest Service and BLM campgrounds, fire lookouts and rental cabins
• Downloadable weather forecasts
• Snow depth at SNOTEL stations
• Offline satellite imagery for every region
• Cell coverage
• Moonrise, moonset, the moon's phase and solunar times
• Ride and hike stats: moving and stopped time, best sustained speed, descent, high point and average grade
• The documents pocket, for your tags, permits and maps
• Legal to ride: the Forest Service MVUM, one vehicle class at a time

I paid but Huck+ is not active

Open Huck+ and tap Restore purchase. That asks the store directly: the App Store on iPhone, Google Play on Android. If it still does not activate, check you are signed in with the same Apple Account, or on Android the same Google account in the Play Store, that bought it, then email us. A subscription bought on iPhone does not unlock Huck+ on Android, or the other way around.

Managing or canceling

Huck+ renews yearly. On iPhone, manage or cancel it in Settings → your name → Subscriptions; refunds are handled by Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com. Canceling never touches your tracks, waypoints or downloaded maps.

On Android, tap Manage subscription on the Huck+ screen, or in the Google Play app tap your profile icon, then Payments & subscriptions (or open Google Play's subscriptions page in a browser). Uninstalling Huck does not cancel it. To ask for a refund, use Google Play's refund page within 48 hours of the charge. After that we do not refund Google Play purchases, except where the law requires it.

Does Huck+ work offline?

The hunt units and controlled hunt boundaries ship inside the app, so they work with no signal the moment Huck+ is active. Weather is the exception: it is a live forecast download, so pull it before you lose bars and it will still be there at camp.

Data

A trail is missing, or the map is wrong

Huck reproduces what the agencies publish — the US Forest Service, Idaho Parks & Recreation, the BLM and the Idaho Department of Lands. If a trail is missing from their data it will be missing here. Tell us anyway: support@gohuck.app. Knowing which sources have holes is how the next refresh gets better.

How current is it?

Sources are re-checked and packs are rebuilt periodically; the app shows a "New data" badge in Downloads when a region you have installed has been updated, and re-downloads only the parts that changed.

Please do not navigate by Huck alone

Boundaries are simplified, dates describe legal openings rather than snow-free conditions, and public data is imperfect. Carry a paper map and a compass. Where a sign or the printed regulations disagree with the app, they are right. See the Terms of Use.

Privacy

Huck has no accounts and no analytics, and it sends your position off the phone in one case only: a Huck+ hunt forecast that you ask for. The full privacy policy is short and worth reading.

Still stuck?

support@gohuck.app — include your phone model, its iOS or Android version (on Android: Settings → About phone → Android version), the Huck version shown at the bottom of Huck's own Settings, and what you were doing when it went wrong.