Software for
Rock Climbing Guides

Well-written guides are both valuable tools and art. They introduce us to new areas and age into charming mementos.

Stele supports these guides.

For Future Guides

stele1 is for building climbing guides.

It helps you build and maintain the essentials of a climbing guide. These essentials (climbs, areas, photos, ...) are easier to update, collaborate on, and re-release than a draft of a guidebook.

For Past Guides

Epoxy is an archive.

Websites are abandoned and pdfs get lost.
Epoxy preserves digital guides.

Articles

Other Projects

Resources

Loosely Related

AAC's library makes printed guidebooks available to members.
The videos Guidebooking and The magic of climbing guidebooks capture the care that authors put into their guidebooks.
OpenBeta is building and expansive, open-source dataset, and refining tools to accompany it.
Beautiful Racket isn't for climbing, but it takes a uniqe approach to publishing and charging: you could read it like it's free, but it specifically is requesting payment. Guidebook authors could benefit from this low-overhead approach.
How to Store Data Forever is a cursory pass at an relevant question. How should we keep guides available and useful long-term? (see also: Designed to Last Site Deaths Web Bloat Conservative Web Development)

Software for Rock Climbing Guides