Hey everyone, just launched the first mobile version of RidgeRead on the iOS App Store.

To celebrate the launch, we are giving everyone 1 year of RidgeRead Pro free. Also, anyone who signs up before July 7 can lock in $1.99/month forever after the free year.

RidgeRead is a hunting/scouting app built with a privacy-first approach: your pins, notes, routes, and scouting strategy should stay yours. The goal is to make a reliable backcountry tool that helps with planning and terrain analysis without turning your data into the product.

It includes map tools and layers such as terrain analysis, point of interest finder, road density, sun exposure, and more. The goal is to make it easier to understand access, terrain features, movement corridors, glassing spots, bedding areas, saddles, drainages, and other details that matter in the field.

We genuinely appreciate any feedback from hunters, especially around what would make this more useful in the field.

iOS App: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ridgeread/id6778869812

Android App: ETA end of July

Web: https://www.ridgeread.com/map

This is my first year living in Colorado and I’d like to take my dad on a pronghorn hunt. I’m a Colorado resident, but he is a nonresident.

It sounds like I may be late to the party for this season, but I’m trying to learn what my best options are, whether that’s for this year or next year.

I’m an experienced deer and bird hunter from Missouri, but I’ve never hunted pronghorn and this would be my first time hunting in Colorado.

For those who have done it, would you recommend:
DIY public-land hunting?
Paying a fee to access private land?
A fully guided hunt?

I’m not necessarily looking for a trophy, just a good father-son hunt with a reasonable chance of success. I’d appreciate any recommendations on units, regions, outfitters, or general advice for someone new to Colorado hunting.

Across three species, I’ve been in the game for over a decade so I don’t think it was user error, anyone else experience this?