Climb Chippewa is the bouldering guide to Chippewa Creek in Brecksville Reservation, Ohio. I built the site and keep it up to date. It covers more than 120 problems across four areas, and climbers use it to log their sends, rate problems and share beta videos.
Features
- Problems and areas. Each problem has its grade, a description and GPS coordinates. Its photo carries a topo line showing the route, and a Toggle Topo switch hides the line so you can see the bare rock. Each area has approach directions, a map of its problems and footpaths, and a grade filter.
- Log your climbs. A free account lets you log a send, flash or attempt with the date, a suggested grade, a star rating and notes. Your logbook lives on your profile with search and filters, and you decide whether it is public.
- Community grades and ratings. Each problem shows its logged ascents, its average rating and a consensus grade drawn from what climbers suggest.
- Beta videos. Climbers can upload a video of their beta in a problem’s comments. The video uploads from the browser to Mux and plays on the page, through my Video Comments plugin.
- Recent activity. The home page shows the latest sends, ratings and beta videos from the community.
- Print guidebook. A 43-page printed guide to 88 problems, with topo photos, route descriptions and maps, sold through the site’s shop.
Behind the scenes
- Problems as content types. Problems and areas are custom post types, with grades, areas and warnings as taxonomies, so the admin lists each problem with its area and grade.
- Topo editor. A topo panel on each problem opens an editor I built for drawing lines, arrows, splines and shapes over the photo. It keeps the original image and saves the annotated copy, and the Toggle Topo switch swaps between the two.
- Areas synced to a taxonomy. My CPT-Taxonomy Syncer plugin keeps each Area post paired with an Area term, and its Relationships screen sets the order of an area’s problems.
- Problem Authors. A Problem Author role lets trusted locals add and maintain their own problems without full admin access.
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