How a unit becomes a plan.
Four steps, in the app. You describe the hunt, Glassline narrows the ground, drafts the plays, and prices the packout. Nothing here is a template — every plan is built from your inputs.
See it work, start to finish.
A tour of Glassline in the live app — describing the hunt, narrowing the unit, and building the playbook. The same four steps below, walked end to end.
Describe the hunt
Unit, season, weapon, party and objectives. Your vehicle, which decides the roads and trailheads open to you. Where you’ll sleep — lodging, base camp or backcountry. The tactics you’d rather hunt: spot and stalk, calling, still hunting, road accessible. And how an animal comes out: backpack, game cart or pack animals. Every play is written against these.
Describe the hunter
Fitness, and the numbers under it: how far you’ll hike in a day, how much weight you’ll carry a trip, the highest elevation you’re comfortable working. Routes are assembled inside those budgets, so a play you couldn’t walk never reaches the book. Routed for your fitness, not flagged after.
Narrow the unit
Public, huntable ground first. Current-year burns buffered and cut. Then the state’s seasonal range layers and the elevation band that matches your season. What’s left is scored cell by cell and ranked on habitat, method fit, trailhead access, feature diversity and pressure. Modify the generated hunt areas and add your own. Prioritize them to focus your hunt.
Build the playbook
Every setup across your prioritized hunt areas becomes a scored opportunity, weighted by method fit, area priority, pressure and elevation. Routes are built from the best of them and held inside hard ceilings: the legal shooting light of your dates, your foot-travel hours, your climb budget.
Four factors, re-weighted every season.
Food, water, breeding cover and shelter, scored from terrain, canopy, hydrography and greenness data. The weights change with the season — the same drainage scores differently in September than it does in November. Ground that sits near features like wallows and benches scores a little higher.
Terrain suitability, weighted by season. Not animal tracking.
How you get in, how far you go, and how you get out.
If the road closes in September, the trailhead doesn't fit your vehicle, or the packout takes three days, it doesn't matter how good the habitat looks. Glassline weighs all three before an area is ranked.
Getting in
Seasonal closures, the roads your vehicle can run, and the trailhead that puts you closest — drive times and hike-in estimates for each. Have your own way in? Mark it, and it competes with every mapped trailhead.
How far you go
Distance, trail and terrain against your fitness — and how far past the crowd it puts you. Pressure is a penalty in the scoring, not a target.
Getting out
Miles, elevation, trips and hours — by backpack, game cart, or pack animals. The full cost of a kill, measured from the back of the play, before you commit to hunting it.
Plays, not just pins.
Every play is a piece of ground and a way to hunt it — the terrain it runs in, the conditions it suits, boots-on time, mileage and effort. Locate plays are about covering country and reading it. Strike plays are the move once you have something to work with.
Your tactics shape the mix: call rather than sit, timber rather than open parks, day hikes rather than a bivy. Weapon, season and party size shape it before that.
Take it to the field.
Glassline is the planning layer, not another map to manage. Build the plan here, run it in the apps already on your phone.
Your waypoints
Years of pins in onX or Gaia? Bring them. Glassline imports GPX and KML, and your spots and access points shape the plan — camps, routes, and packout exits are built around the ground you already know. Your waypoints stay yours: they shape your plan and no one else's.
The field kit
Every plan exports as a field kit — GPX and KML files of the points you kept and the routes between them. Drop it into onX, Gaia, or Garmin, and the playbook you refined is on the map you'll carry up the mountain. Most hunters use both.
Glassline runs in your browser — built for desktop e-scouting, responsive on your phone. Native apps are coming.
$39.99/yr — first 500 hunters, rate locked.
Glassline maps the mountain, never the hunters.