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This was hands down the coolest thing I saw over the course of the show. Wolverine Publishing’s Dave Pegg and I sat down, and he showed me the fully functional 3rd edition of the Red River Gorge guidebook…on his iPhone. This wasn’t just pdf pages you scroll through, this was a fully interactive guidebook where you could browse the different areas, cliffs and routes. You could search by rating, sport or trad, number of stars and area. You could scroll left or right to see what routes were next to the one you were currently looking at. You could even add routes to your tick list and make notes about the ones you had sent. Now, I don’t have an iPhone, but many climbers do, and at some point all our phones will be like this. I will always enjoy flipping through an actual guidebook while sitting on the couch, but how cool to have a thick guidebook’s worth of info literally at your finger tips in your phone? This changes the game completely, look for it out in May.

pawilkes wrote:just imagine if the base of every route was GPS tagged and the phone could tell you how to get to a route or what route you're standing in front of. that would be super sweet especially at places like Indian Creek