Crags, routes and pitches
A real hierarchy rather than a flat list — a crag holds its routes, a route holds its pitches, and each carries its grade, its length and its description.
For climbing organizations and access funds
The bolts you are responsible for
Route databases are for climbers. This is for the organization that owns the hardware: every crag, route, pitch and piece of fixed gear as a record with an inspection history — and the approach trails on the same map.
What it has to handle
What a steward has to be able to say
A climbing organization is asked three questions it cannot answer from a spreadsheet: what hardware is out there, when was it last looked at, and who looked at it.
Fixed gear with a history
Bolts, anchors and hardware as records of their own, each with an inspection history. The one time somebody asks is the reason the record exists.
Topo photos where they belong
Attached to the crag and the route, so a replacement or a rebolting decision is made against a picture of the actual line rather than a description of it.
Approaches are trails
The walk-in is a trail with a condition, a status and its own maintenance queue — because a washed-out approach closes a crag as effectively as a bad anchor does.
Closures people will actually see
Raptor closures, wet-rock seasons and landowner requests as a status on the crag, published where climbers look — not as a post that scrolls away.
Climbers reporting what they find
A spinner, a rusted hanger, a rockfall in the approach gully — filed from the base with a photo and a position, into a queue your people review.
Hardware and access
Two records nobody else is keeping
The guidebook has the beta. Neither the guidebook nor the route site has the inspection trail, and that is the one that matters to whoever owns the crag.
Fixed gear
An inspection record per piece of hardware
Every bolt and anchor you are responsible for is a record, not a line in a rebolting spreadsheet. Log an inspection with the date, the condition and a photo, and the history stays attached to the piece — through committee changes, through volunteers moving on, through the season nobody got to it.
- Dated, and kept What it was, what it is, and when somebody last put eyes on it.
- Photographed at the piece From the field app, at the anchor, with the position attached.
- Replacement raised as work A hanger that has to go becomes a maintenance item on the route it belongs to.
Access
The approach is half the problem
Access disputes and closures usually turn on the walk-in — erosion above a landowner's fence line, a braided social trail, a parking overflow. All of it is ordinary trail work here: mapped, statused, filed and closed out with the hours against it, which is exactly the evidence an access conversation needs.
- Trailheads and parking as records Where people actually start, not where the guidebook says.
- Erosion work tracked like any other Filed on the approach trail, photographed, assigned.
- Volunteer hours counted The number a landowner meeting and a grant application both ask for.
Getting started
Start with one crag
The hardware inventory is the slow part and the valuable part. One crag proves whether the shape fits how you work.
01
Switch climbing on
It is off by default. One setting adds crags, routes, pitches and fixed gear to the workspace.
02
Add the crag and its routes
With topo photos, grades and descriptions — from the web or from the phone at the base.
03
Walk the hardware in
Bolts and anchors as you inspect them, so the inventory and its first inspection are the same trip.
04
Map the approach
Record the walk-in as a trail, give it a status, and open it to climber reports.
Get the hardware inventory started
Free to begin, and the first crag is an evening's work. The record is worth having before the question arrives, not after.