Snocator: Trail Maps and Vertical Feet Tracking on your iPhone
Those Suunto watches did some cool things but they were really difficult to operate. I always assumed the difficulty of operation coincided with all their depth of cool features, but the truth is that any idiot can pick up an iPod or iPhone and run it through its paces. The Snocator iPhone application will show you trail maps of ski resorts, count your runs, track speed, record your vertical, and keep track of which runs you skied. When you get done skiing, it’ll also take you through upcoming snow reports and track weather systems that might dump feet of the wicked white. It would be nice if there was also a feature that would set an alarm for dawn patrol when more than a foot of snow fell, but I guess you have to leave room for something.
via Get Outdoors
By- rockythompson
This entry was posted on WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2008 - 12:40 P.M. and is filed under Gear, Snowboarding, Skiing. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
November 6th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
I expect we’ll see the iphone running this app on all the best frozen dead corpses found out-of-bounds this season.
November 7th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
The ability to count your runs, track speed, record your vertical, and keep track of which runs you skied are pretty handy features. I’ve never been able to recount the trails I’ve hit. It’d be cool if you could mark favorite runs so you know which ones to go back to.
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November 9th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
You have to try this out to appreciate it. I went to www.snocator.com and did the text message “snow” to 90999. I got a link, and wham I was signed up, download, and install in minutes. Everything was easy. On friday I went to the opening day at Keystone, and was able to check the snow reports, number of trails open, and see a web cam as I drove up with my buddies. Its early season so there is not much open, but I can see myself checking out the five mountains on my pass and deciding on the drive up which mountain to ride. On mountain I tried the GPS Trail Map and it worked every time. Even on the lift I could see myself going up the mountian. If we were mid-season I’d be in the trees and wondering where I would pop out. With Socator I get my location, nearest trail and more. For $6 bucks this is a no-brainer.
November 11th, 2008 at 9:38 am
For the capabilities it seems that 5.99 is pretty cheap for this. I haven’t used it or downloaded it, because I live in FLA now.
- I thought I remember reading that the 5.99 is for one year. You have to re-up each season.
November 12th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
Snocator rules. Compared with all the crap in the iPhone app store, this is an app which is actually worth the money. Once they get the downloadable maps in, it should make the experience much better and you can use it anywhere. The coverage for resorts is solid, snow reports, cams and weather for pretty much everywhere, and GPS trail maps for most good ski resorts in North America.