diff --git a/common/app/routes/Hikes/components/Lecture.jsx b/common/app/routes/Hikes/components/Lecture.jsx
index 3b37f2736f..1f37b854c5 100644
--- a/common/app/routes/Hikes/components/Lecture.jsx
+++ b/common/app/routes/Hikes/components/Lecture.jsx
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ export default contain(
 
     render() {
       const { title, challengeSeed } = this.props.currentHike;
-      const [ id ] = challengeSeed;
+      const [ id ] = challengeSeed || ['1'];
 
       return (
         <Col xs={ 12 }>
diff --git a/common/app/routes/Hikes/flux/Actions.js b/common/app/routes/Hikes/flux/Actions.js
index 86af76c462..1d22c91744 100644
--- a/common/app/routes/Hikes/flux/Actions.js
+++ b/common/app/routes/Hikes/flux/Actions.js
@@ -67,10 +67,11 @@ export default Actions({
           return instance.setCurrentHike(potentialHike);
         }
       }
-      service.read('hikes', { dashedName }, null, (err, hike) => {
+      service.read('hikes', { dashedName }, null, (err, hikes) => {
         if (err) {
           debug('error occurred fetching hike', err);
         }
+        const [hike] = hikes;
         return instance.setCurrentHike(hike);
       });
     });
diff --git a/server/services/hikes.js b/server/services/hikes.js
index 0238e11355..10b5221729 100644
--- a/server/services/hikes.js
+++ b/server/services/hikes.js
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+import debugFactory from 'debug';
+import assign from 'object.assign';
+
+const debug = debugFactory('freecc:services:hikes');
+
 export default function hikesService(app) {
   const Challenge = app.models.Challenge;
 
@@ -8,6 +13,14 @@ export default function hikesService(app) {
         where: { challengeType: '6' },
         order: 'difficulty ASC'
       };
+
+      debug('params', params);
+      if (params) {
+        assign(query.where, {
+          dashedName: { like: params.dashedName, options: 'i' }
+        });
+      }
+      debug('query', query);
       Challenge.find(query, (err, hikes) => {
         if (err) {
           return cb(err);