As a hypothetical situation, if I were to design my capstone with the intentions of using little to no recent technology (computers and the likes), how would I do so?
This is a tough question to answer, because the project was not designed around the technology, but around the concept. The idea is to be lead to the boulders in the most efficient way possible. Taking the technology away means that no longer will the user have the information to lead them to the boulder so the information or ‘signal’ must come from the boulder itself. Off the top of my head, the most obvious solution would be to use birds…
Users would purchase special whistles that mimic a specific bird call. Meanwhile, we could create a nice environment for these birds by providing feeders near all the boulders. Hopefully, the climbers will use these whistles to insight a response from the birds hanging around the feeders. The climbers would then follow the sound of the calling birds to the rocks.
Once arrived at the rock, instead of an online profile, the climbers would just signed their names on a large board that has the various routes located on the rock. This plan would only work as long as the birds stay in the area, but as winter comes along and snow falls, trails could be shoveled or packed to show a path right to the climbing.
Personally, I think that the orignal idea is much stronger…. : )