Columbia Sportswear Releases GPS Pal

A journal app for outdoors people

Columbia announces the launch of GPS PAL™, a free mobile app for iPhone and Android designed to help people rapidly journal their outdoor experiences. The app can be downloaded via the following links:

· iPhone: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/columbias-gps-pal/id511046887?mt=8

· Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.columbia.gpspal

We created GPS PAL, short for GPS Portable Activity Log, to give people a means to quickly and easily capture, explore, and share their outdoor experiences. The free app syncs photos, videos, and trail information to a web journal automatically, so that it can be saved, shared, and organized. In addition to capturing notes, GPS PAL can keep track of elevation changes, current speed, and distance traveled. When people look back on their journal entries, they're reminded of their outdoor experiences and can offer them up to others planning their own adventures. GPS PAL does more than capture data; it helps people create an outdoor story.

GPS PAL was built by Columbia and its design partner ISITE Design. To learn more, please go to gpspal.columbia.com

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