Shorts & social
What I've learned making short hiking videos for Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube Shorts.
October 2026
- What 201 Facebook reels taught me about short hiking videos I pulled the numbers on all 201 reels on my Facebook Page. One real moment beat montages, map reels won, and 43 shorts in two days backfired.
- I studied 700 Acatenango videos to remake one short Claude studied the most-viewed Acatenango videos on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube. Almost all are one shot of Fuego erupting. So I remade my short that way.
- How I make animated hiking route maps from my own GPS tracks Claude and I turn my GPS tracks, open terrain data and clips from my films into split-screen route map videos. How they're built and how they're doing.