Fixed gear gets older every year. The bolt that needs replacing this season was installed 25 years ago by someone who’s no longer on the team. The spreadsheet that tracked it lives on a hard drive nobody can find. The record of who inspected what is a group chat from 2021.
TrailsIQ gives climbing organizations, land managers, and access funds one operator-friendly place to track crags, routes, fixed gear, and inspection history — and to file maintenance tasks the moment a bolt is found loose.
From the base of the route to the work queue
Bolt inspection is the highest-stakes maintenance work a climbing organization does, and it’s usually the most poorly tracked.
With TrailsIQ, the climber logs the inspection on their phone at the base of the route, and any concerning gear lands on the dispatch board before they’re back at the parking lot.
- One-tap fixed-gear inspection — pick a condition, add a note, snap a photo. The bolt’s last-inspected date and condition update on the spot, with who inspected attached automatically.
- Replace-soon and failed conditions auto-file a maintenance task linked to the route, the pitch, and the specific bolt — nothing falls through the gap between ‘noticed it’ and ‘scheduled to fix it.
- Add pitches, bolts, anchors, rappel rings, and tat from the field. The dashboard’s richer editors are still there; the field app exists so the data goes in while you’re standing under the route, not three weeks later.
Route stewards and the long memory
Local climbers know your routes better than anyone. The volunteer who’s been climbing at your crag for fifteen years has seen every bolt go in.
TrailsIQ gives them — and the people coming after them — a way to send what they see back to the maintenance team, and to keep the institutional knowledge from walking away when someone retires.
- Branded climbing app skinned with your organization’s name and logo. Route stewards, pass-holders, and visiting climbers flag loose bolts or rappel-anchor wear directly to your team.
- Multi-topo support per crag — every face gets its own photo with route lines drawn on top, so a new climber finds the right line without a guidebook and your stewards can mark up new bolting plans visually.
- Full bolt-replacement audit trail. Every inspection logs who, when, and what condition; every replacement preserves the history. Years from now, you can answer ‘when was this bolt last looked at, and by whom?’ in one tap — useful for liability, useful for handing the keys to the next generation of route stewards.