For Climbing Guides,
Past and Future

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

Stele exists to foster these climbing guides.

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. At any point, you can use a stele1 project to generate a website, PDF, Word Document, etc to start a new guide.

Past Guides

Epoxy is an archive.

Websties become abandoned and files get lost. Epoxy preserves digital guides for future generations of climbers.

Articles

Other Projects

Resources

Weather
Maps

Loosely Related

AAC's Guidebook Rental makes printed guidebooks available to climbers.
The mini-doc Guidebooking captures the care that a thoughtful author puts into his guide, and what it means for the community.
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)

For Climbing Guides, Past and Future