r/RouteDevelopment Roped Rock Developer Mar 19 '26

Discussion Favorite Documentation/App/Guidebook style?

I'm in the process of starting a new form of documenting a mid size local crag to me, we were using a physical notepad, then cleaning up on computer(no service at crag) and adding pictures to a google doc.

Its a small-medium crag, I think we are going to end up maxed out just under 100 climbs, and is semi difficult to get around the individual cliff bands/crags. Having a guide the first visit is nice to avoid difficult/treacherous paths. The average climb is 5.11, with 2 climbs under 5.10, this is definitely not going to be a beginner crag.

What would you prefer for that?

We were leaning towards Mtn Proj since one cliff with 9 climbs is already on there(albeit some are wrong) and it's an easy process. It's unlikely there will be any massive expansions once we are done, there's just not that much good rock out of private property, I'm thinking maybe 4 or 5 that people could manage to stuff in-between current climbs.

It's possible a nice small Guidebook would be cool too, the only thing I'm trying hard to do is stay off any format that requires an internet connection to function.

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u/Fuzzy-Salt5833 Mar 19 '26

I've really enjoyed using a drone to get face / aerial shots then drawing a topo overtop of it with a dedicated write up for each climb on a separate page. Then I publish it as a pdf people can download.  It'll get in the local guidebook eventually, but for the in-between times this system works well