[_mulder_]

Perhaps take a look at AirBnB and the way they categorise some of their 'highlight' hosts. Perhaps you could suggest similar categories, "Scottish Hikes", "Mountains", "Ice Hikes", "River Hikes", "Best of Asia", etc. I appreciate you need some more hikes adding to the pool before you can do this (I'll add one later tonight).

Another idea regarding the usefulness of the landing page. Whilst I like to browse the hikes from other countries as some of them look very spectacular, it's not particularly useful to me. Perhaps with a bit of work you could do a 'get location by IP Address' or something similar and thereby suggest hikes local to me, or at least in the same country/continent.

[zakn]

My idea for the future Discover page was that you'd be able to filter the results by location, distance, elevation etc. I'm already using Google's jsapi to zoom the map into your location, but I've seen mixed results with it.

AirBnB is a great example of categories done right. I'll look into that.