First time here?
There is a short picture guide — six steps, about two minutes to read.
Show me how it works
Turn any mountain on Earth into a model you can hold. Pick your area on the map and set the snow and rock how you want them. At the end you get a design code. Take that code to our Etsy shop to order.
A little too close
Widens the view until it fits. Your mountain keeps its true proportions, and you see more of the land around it. Generate again afterwards.
Print your hike on the mountain
Your recorded hike, ride or run prints across the terrain as a raised line. It gets a color of its own, a fifth alongside the four the mountain uses.
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Get a .gpx file
A GPX is just the list of places your watch or phone recorded on a walk. If you tracked the hike yourself, export it from whichever app you used. If you didn’t track it — or you want a famous route you have never walked — AllTrails has hundreds of thousands of ready-made trails you can download in a few clicks, free. Search the trail, open it, and use Download route.
AllTrailsopen the trail → ⋯ More → Download route → GPX
Stravaopen the activity → ⋯ (top right) → Export GPX
Garmin Connectactivity → ⚙ gear → Export to GPX
Komootopen the tour → ⋯ → Export GPX
Gaia GPStracks → select → Export → GPX
Ride with GPSroute or ride → Export → GPX Track
Apple WatchHealth won’t export GPX — use a free app like HealthFit or RunGap
Anywhere elselook for Export, Download or Share → GPX. Files end in .gpx
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Upload it here to see it on your model
The track draws on the map so you can frame your selection around it. Anything outside the selected area is trimmed off automatically.
No hike added yet.
Pick the trail color
Fifteen colors — pick one and the preview updates. Your design code remembers which one.
Recorded activities and planned routes both work — a route you have planned but never walked prints exactly the same.
Find your mountain
Have a design code from someone? Open it here
Your saved designs
Model shape
Turn the shape
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Whatever is inside the gold square is what gets printed. Drag to move, pinch to zoom.
Add your hike optional
See your mountain
Frame your mountain in the gold square, then generate.
drag to turn · shift-drag to move · scroll to zoom
Your mountain will appear here. Drag to turn it, shift-drag to move it, scroll to zoom.Your mountain will appear here. Press Generate Preview, then drag to turn it and pinch to zoom.
This one is too close to print
At this zoom the mountain comes out nearly as tall as the model is wide. Pick one of the two fixes and it comes straight back.
Waking the satellites…
Forest
Rock
Snow
Water