Logging Routes

How to record individual climbs with grades, attempts and outcomes.

Adding Routes to a Session

Once you have a session, you can start logging routes. Each route represents an individual climb you attempted during the session.

Creating a Route

To add a route to a session:

Open the session you want to add routes to
Tap the + Add Route button
Fill in the route details (most fields are optional)

Route Details

Most fields are optional — log as much or as little detail as you like. Only the grade is required.

Core Fields

Field	Required	Description
Grade	Yes	The difficulty rating in your preferred system
Sent	No	Whether you completed the climb (defaults to yes)
Attempts	No	Number of tries (defaults to 1)
Name	No	Optional name for the route
Angle	No	How steep it was where the climb was hardest (see below)
Features	No	The formation — crack, corner, arête (see below)
Holds, Moves	No	What you pulled on and what it made you do (see below)

Which optional fields the form shows is up to you — Settings → App Preferences → Fields has a Simple / Standard / Detailed choice, with a per-field list underneath. Turning a field off never hides or deletes anything already recorded on a climb: it still shows on any climb that has it.

Indoor-Specific Fields

These fields appear for indoor sessions:

Field	Description
Section / Wall	Which area of the gym (e.g., "Cave", "Slab Wall")
Hold Colour	The colour of the holds on the route

Outdoor & Rope Climbing Fields

These fields appear for sport, trad and outdoor sessions:

Field	Description
Send Type	How you completed the climb (see below)
Rope Style	Lead, top rope, or auto belay
Pitches	Number of pitches for multi-pitch routes

Grading Systems

Chalky supports the major grading systems across every discipline:

Discipline	Systems
Bouldering	V-scale, Fontainebleau
Sport/Trad	Ewbank, French, YDS, UIAA, British Trad
Ice	Water Ice (WI)
Mixed	M-Scale
Aid	Aid (A/C)

You can set your preferred grading system in Settings. Routes will display in your chosen system, but you can enter grades in any system.

Send Types

Send types describe how you completed a route. These are primarily used for outdoor and rope climbing:

Send Type	Description
Onsight	First attempt, no prior knowledge or beta
Flash	First attempt, with beta from others
Redpoint	Clean send after previous attempts
Pinkpoint	Clean send with pre-placed gear (trad)
Clean	Completed without falls, may have rested
Hangdog	Made it up but took falls or rests
Solo	Completed unroped

Only mark a route as "sent" if you got it bottom to top with no falls and no takes. Nobody else is checking, so a generous tick only skews your own stats.

Climb style

Four separate fields describe what a climb was made of. They're separate because a climb is usually more than one thing at once — an overhanging arête is an ordinary route, and asking you to pick just one meant losing the other.

Angle

How steep the wall is where the climb is hardest, not on average. A pitch that starts slabby and finishes steep has no honest average, and it's the bit that shut you down you'd name anyway. One angle per climb.

Slab — Less than vertical, so you stand on your feet more than you pull
Vertical — Straight up and down, leaning neither way
Overhang — Past vertical, so your weight hangs off your arms
Roof — A horizontal ceiling, where the lip is usually the hard part

Features

The formation. Pick as many as fit — a corner crack is both.

Indoors you get Arête, Corner, Traverse and Volume, which is what a gym actually builds. Outdoors adds Crack, Offwidth, Chimney, Flake and Face.

If you've used an American app, Corner is what it called a dihedral. Same feature, and Australian and British guidebooks say corner.

Holds and moves

What you were pulling on (Crimp, Sloper, Pocket, Gaston and six more) and what the climb made you do (Heel Hook, Toe Hook, Dyno, Kneebar and eight more). Both are multi-select.

These two are for anyone who wants them and invisible to anyone who doesn't — they're off unless you pick the Detailed preset in Settings → App Preferences → Fields, and on the route form they sit folded away behind a "Holds and moves" heading. Every term is defined in Climbing Lingo.

What they feed

The angle becomes a real breakdown on the Stats tab — a share of your climbs, because each climb has one angle. Features, holds and moves are counts rather than percentages: a climb tagged with two features counts in both bars.

Holds and moves also let you set a goal against a technique. "30 climbs with a toe hook" is a normal goal, and it needs nothing more than a volume goal with a move filter.

Chalky never turns hold data into a training verdict. There's no load score, no fatigue number and no recovery advice, and there won't be — the app records what you climbed on, and what that did to your fingers is your call.

Attaching Media

Capture photos and videos of your climbs:

Open the route (tap on it in the session view)
Tap the camera icon or Add Media
Take a photo/video or choose from your library

Worth doing for a project you'll come back to: film the sequence while it's fresh, and you won't have to work it out again next visit.

All media syncs securely to the cloud when you're connected.

Editing and Deleting Routes

Edit a Route

Tap on the route in the session view
Make your changes
Tap Save