Changelog

Benchmarks start earning from launch. Earn Benchmarks for your mountain-watching milestones, locations, and moments — reports, photo streaks, seasons and the rest. Everyone starts from the same line on launch day, so an empty grid is a fresh start, not lost progress.

The front page used to show a desktop screenshot and nothing else, which made a mobile-first app look like a website that happened to have one.There's a phone on the homepage. A real iOS screenshot in a device frame, sitting alongside the desktop view, so it's obvious at a glance... Keep reading

The site has a new voice. Headlines are now set in Fraunces, body text in Figtree, and anything that reads like data, timestamps, counts, coordinates, in Space Mono. Woohoo, let the type nerds rejoice!This is the first piece of a longer redesign that brings the website in line wi... Keep reading

Super Watcher Club members can now pick an alternate app icon for the Home Screen, plus three new themes: Emerald City, Wildflower, and Ember.See every report properly. Report cards are square now, so photos are no longer cropped into a thin strip. Tap any report to open it full... Keep reading

We spent some time on the plumbing, and the busiest parts of the site are quicker now, especially the webcams page and the live status on a clear day when everyone checks at once.We won't bore you with the technical bits. Just enjoy the difference next time you check on Tahoma....

Is The Mountain Out is now on the App Store, so you can keep an eye on Tahoma right from your pocket. 📱Get a push notification the moment The Mountain comes out, send a report in a couple of taps, and watch the live map fill in through the day.Prefer your browser? Nothing change... Keep reading

When you add a photo to a report, we now strip out the hidden data your camera tucks inside it, including the exact spot where you took the shot. That happens before the photo is ever saved, so the file other people can see never carries it.Your reports only ever record a rough a... Keep reading

You can now report a photo or a profile that doesn't belong here, and block another reporter so their reports stop showing up for you.We look at everything that gets reported. Thanks for helping keep this a good place to hang out. ❤️

There’s a new way to check whether The Mountain is out, and this one has an absolutely beautiful view from Tehaleh! 🌄🏔️We’ve added the view from Post & Pour to the webcam map, so you can get a fresh look at The Mountain before heading out, or simply when it’s putting on a show.... Keep reading

We've improved the quality of report photos in the activity feed, so every sighting looks crisp and clear on your phone.Photos used to look a bit soft and blurry in the feed. Now they load at a much higher quality, so you can actually see the details in everyone's reports. 🏔️Keep... Keep reading

Ever wonder whether a sighting came from a fellow mountain-watcher or one of our webcams? Now you can tell at a glance. Every report shows a little badge for where it came from: someone on the website, someone in the app, or a webcam pointed at the Mountain. 👀🏔️It makes the map... Keep reading

Our iOS app is officially in beta on TestFlight. If you want in, this is the moment.The app is everything you already use on the site, just native and faster on your phone: the live hexagon map, recent community reports, webcam thumbnails, and one-tap reporting from your camera.... Keep reading

A bunch of behind-the-scenes work to make the site feel faster, especially on mobile and slower connections. No visual changes. Pages just load quicker.Maps render quicker. Upgraded to Mapbox GL JS v3 and added preconnect hints so the browser starts the handshake to the map tiles... Keep reading

We added a scrolling ribbon of live mountain-out reports to the homepage — real names, real photos, real sightings, all rolling by as they come in. 🏔️It's a little window into the community before you even log in. Keep exploring, keep reporting! ❤️

We just opened up Feature Requests — drop your ideas, upvote what other folks are asking for, and watch what we're actually working on. 🏔️Want a new webcam at a specific spot? Better leaderboards? Push notifications when The Mountain pops out? Tell us! Every request gets a vote c... Keep reading

The new Roadmap shows what we're planning, what's actively in progress, and what just shipped — all in one place. No more wondering "are they still working on this?" 👀Vote on what should ship next via Feature Requests and we'll bubble the popular stuff up the list. Keep explorin... Keep reading

We've been shipping a lot and wanted one place to keep you in the loop. The new What's New page has everything we've launched, improved, and fixed — all in one feed. 📰Bonus: the ⚡ lightning-bolt in the top-right of the app glows when there's an update you haven't seen yet. Clic... Keep reading

We added a Photo Gallery to your dashboard, every photo you've ever attached to a report, all in one place. Sort by newest or oldest, hover a tile to see the state, location, and when you snapped it. 📸A little time machine of your own Tahoma sightings. ❤️🏔️

Ever shared a link to this website in iMessage or Slack and got a sad blank box? Not anymore! 🎉We added social preview cards across the whole site, so when you (or anyone) shares a Rainier Watch URL, it now shows a real preview with the mountain icon and a proper description.Loo... Keep reading

It should just feel nicer in there. 🏔️ We went through the homepage and about page top to bottom, better layout, crisper type, more personality.Check it out and let us know what you think! ❤️

Big news, mountain nerds! 🏔️ We've been heads-down building a native iOS app, and you can now sign up for the beta waitlist at isthemountainout.com/app. Reporting from your phone is about to get a LOT faster.Drop your email so we can ping you when the first beta drops! 📣 More pl... Keep reading

We built a time machine. Pick any date from Rainier Watch history and scrub through every webcam capture and user-submitted photo from that day — minute by minute, from sunrise to sunset. 🏔️You can also see how the community was reporting: when The Mountain peeked through the clo... Keep reading

Ever wonder what the best day on record was for spotting Tahoma? Peak Days ranks the top mountain-out days in Rainier Watch history — filter by all time or by year to see when The Mountain really showed up. 🏔️See if your favorite sighting made the list. Keep exploring, keep repor... Keep reading

We've been busy shipping a bunch of small fixes and groundwork for the iOS app (woohoo, that's right!):cleaner API endpoints under the hoodpush-notification plumbing for when the iOS app dropsfaster page loads on a few spotsa few crash fixes (post-login redirect, mobile browser-U... Keep reading

Hey everyone! We've just added a brand-new webcam view - just in time for ski season. ⛷️You can now check if the mountain is out from the top of Pigtail Peak in White Pass Ski Area! 🌇🏔️Keep exploring, keep reporting, and let us know what you think of this new addition! Go check... Keep reading

Hey everyone! We've just added a brand-new webcam view to the app, and it's a good one. You can now check if the mountain is out with an amazing perspective from the Columbia Center in downtown Seattle! 🌇🏔️This new view offers a stunning look at The Mountain, right from the hear... Keep reading

We've made some behind-the-scenes improvements to the app's database to make everything faster and smoother for you! We won't bore you on the technical jargon but just know we updated using best practices for the database and optimized performance to ensure quicker load times and... Keep reading

Hey everyone! Thanks for hanging in there and reporting the mountain out if you see it! We've been crazy busy shipping lots of little changes behind the scenes that do boring things like improve the UI and lay groundwork for the upcoming photo upload feature. (YES! That's right,... Keep reading

Big news: Our first stage of user accounts is here!(Yes that's right, we have more stages planned like public profiles, leaderboards, and awards and more! Go leave feedback and vote on what you want to see in the future)Now you can login across devices and those reports will be s... Keep reading

Now you can see all our latest updates from this very changelog without leaving the website! (So meta right?!)Go to the top navigation bar and hit the lightning button here:And boom baby here it is:Pretty rad huh?

We just added two new Telegram channels! Is The Mountain outThis channel will autopost mountain out reports, just like our Twitter account. Although Twitter is soon removing free access to their API, so the future of that twitter account is in flux.Join here!Is The Mountain Out -... Keep reading

Graph nerds rejoice! Who likes to see fancy graphs!?I just added a new "status" page so you can see when if and when our app and website go offline. Hopefully this will never happen, but at least if it does y'all can see this pretty website and graphs!https://status.isthemountain... Keep reading

Thanks everyone who is using our sweet new webcam feature to check and report if The Mountain is out! 🏔️📣 We just added two new webcams that have great views of the Mountain! 📣The King 5 Seattle's Waterfront webcam and the Crystal Mountain summit webcam:Go here and check it out... Keep reading

What's up mountain nerds! We just launched a new feature that will help keep everyone updated when and where The Mountain is out. Mountain out auto-tweets!Anytime we get a Mountain out report it will now be posted on Twitter with a lovely little card showing all the details! Card... Keep reading