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Holy mobile explo­sion bat­man! Another app just hit the interwebs.

Peak­bag­ger just came out with an app for the Win­dows Phone to com­ple­ment their web­site peakbagger.com. Try it out now for $0.99, but the rumor is that it will be going up to $3.99  in a week or two.

Inter­est­ingly enough, I saw some posts on supertopo.com that weren’t too friendly to the author of Climber­Beta about “yet another climb­ing data­base”. I appre­ci­ated their stance but I was sur­prised at the neg­a­tive tone. The guy is just try­ing to con­tribute some­thing use­ful to the com­mu­nity. If it doesn’t work, it will die on the vine. No harm, no foul. I’m not sure the prac­ti­cal­ity of some of these apps either, but I cer­tainly wel­come any­one try­ing to make my climb­ing life easier.

What do you think of all these mobile apps for hik­ing, climb­ing, and ski­ing crop­ping up? Use­ful or unrealistic?

Tags: climbing, technology, windows phone

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