HutScanner has never asked for your email address, and it still does not need one. There is no account, no password and no sign-up to use the planner, and signing up for this does not add one.
There is one thing worth an email, though, and it is the thing people ask about most: when the huts open their season, and which ones still have space. That moment moves every year, no hut announces it in one place, and by the time most people find out, the well-known stages are gone.
So there is now a short letter, sent no more than once a month.
What arrives
- The month's availability picture. Which regions still have beds on the busy nights, which are filling, and where the quiet ground is. It comes out of the same daily sync the planner runs on, so it is the real state of the network rather than a guess.
- New regions, first. When a region pack goes live it is in that month's letter before it is anywhere else.
- What changed in the planner. Short, and only when something actually changed.
What it is not
- No weekly mail. One a month is the ceiling rather than a schedule, and in a month with nothing worth saying nothing goes out. Once in a year there may be a second, if something happens that will not keep.
- No gear affiliate links and no sponsored placements.
- Your address goes to nobody else.
- No tracking of which links you open.
Signing up
An email address is all we take. No name, no password, no profile. HutScanner has no user accounts and signing up does not create one.
We send you a link to confirm before you are added, so nobody can put your address on the list but you. If you never click it, the request is deleted within a day and nothing is kept. Every issue carries a one-click way out, and you can ask us to delete your address at any time.
The details are on the newsletter page, and the full picture of what is stored and for how long is in the privacy policy.
Where the numbers come from
The availability figures in each issue come from the same place the planner and these pages do: the huts' own online booking systems, checked daily. It covers 716 of roughly 3,500 staffed and bookable Alpine huts, about 20 per cent, and that number keeps growing as more regions are added.
It is a best-effort guide and not a reservation. You still book with the hut, and you should always confirm directly with them.