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Connect with fellow hikers, share tips, ask questions, and find hiking partners
The community is the part of this site that the trail itself can't replace. Real-time information about a washed-out path, a closed pension, or whether the spring at Aperlae is still flowing — that lives here, posted by the hiker who walked through last week.
It's a small forum on purpose. We'd rather have a few hundred genuinely useful posts than a feed full of repeated questions and travel-blog promotion. Most threads are short and practical: someone asks a specific question about a specific stage, someone who walked it last month answers, the question gets archived against the relevant stage page so the next hiker can find it without asking again.
Trail conditions in the last few weeks. Spring water levels, recent landslides, sections that are overgrown after winter, pensions that have closed or moved. This is the highest-value content here — much fresher than any guidebook.
Finding hiking partners. If you want company on a section but not a full guided group, post your dates and direction. Plenty of people walk together for two or three days then part ways — it's how a lot of long friendships on the trail begin. The dedicated buddy finder is better for matching by pace and dates; the forum works for looser arrangements.
Logistics questions that don't have a clean guidebook answer. Dolmuş schedules between obscure villages, where to leave a bag for a few days, how to handle a flight delay that costs you a stage, whether a particular pension takes credit cards. Local hikers and pension owners read these threads.
Trip reports and gear notes. Quick summaries that don't need the structure of a full trail story — "just got back from Patara to Demre, here's what worked and what didn't."
What it isn't for. Promotional posts from agencies, blogs, or pensions — those belong on the guide marketplace or as a verified listing. We remove them when we see them, and repeat offenders get banned.
Reading is open to anyone. Posting and replying require a free account, which exists mainly to keep spam out — there's no profile to fill in, no email broadcast, and posts default to anonymous so you can ask a question without your name attached. Sign up via the account page, click "+ New Post" on this page, pick a category, and write your question or update.
Most threads get a useful reply within a day or two during peak season (March–May, September–November) and within a week the rest of the year. If you don't see your question answered, post it again with more specifics — usually a vague question gets no response not because nobody knows but because nobody's sure what you're asking.
A short code of conduct, because the trail community is small and we'd like to keep it kind:
Be specific and accurate. If you're answering a question about water sources or trail conditions, name the date you walked. Conditions change fast on the Lycian Way, and a confident-sounding answer based on a hike from three years ago can mislead.
Don't post unsafe advice. Suggesting someone bypass a closed section via an unmarked goat track, or claiming you can do the eastern mountains without a litre of water per hour in summer, will get the post removed. The trail has had serious incidents, and we err strongly on the side of caution in moderation.
Respect locals. The villages along the route are not a tourist set — they're people's homes. Don't post photos of villagers without permission, don't haggle pension prices into the ground, and don't publicly name and shame individuals (use the report function instead).
No promotion without disclosure. If you're a guide, agency, pension owner, or blogger, you're welcome here — just say so when you post, and don't use the forum as a sales channel. Verified providers can list properly through the marketplace.
Use the report button, not a pile-on. If a post breaks the rules or feels off, flag it via the three-dot menu. A small volunteer team reviews reports daily. Public arguments make threads unreadable for everyone.
No. The forum is fully readable without signing in. An account is only required to post, reply, or report — and creating one takes about thirty seconds. There's no email confirmation flow, no profile to fill out, and nothing is shared publicly except the posts you choose to make.
Yes — and it's the default. Posts are attributed to "Hiker" rather than your username unless you opt in to show it. Moderators can still see the underlying account if a post breaks the rules, but other readers cannot.
Two options. The dedicated buddy finder matches by dates, pace, and section — best if you want to commit to walking with someone for several days. The forum works better for looser, "anyone in Kaş this weekend?" arrangements. Post your dates and which section you're walking, and check for replies daily.
It depends on the season and the section. In peak months (March–May, September–November) popular sections like the central coast usually have a recent report within the last week or two. The eastern mountain stages and inland alternates can go longer without an update. Always check the date on a conditions post before relying on it — and post your own update after you walk.
A Facebook group is in the works and will be linked from this page once it's live. We don't run a WhatsApp group — they get unmanageable past a few dozen members and the back-channel nature makes them hard to keep accurate. The on-site forum is the canonical place for searchable, persistent discussion.
A volunteer moderator reviews it within 24 hours. Posts that clearly break the guidelines (spam, harassment, unsafe advice) are removed without further discussion. Borderline cases get a private follow-up to the original poster. We don't notify reporters of outcomes, partly to protect anonymity and partly to discourage retaliatory reporting.