Doug Fales, a Livingston resident, used his experiences with software app development to combine all of the Montana Department of Transportation’s road and pass conditions information into one readily available phone application.

“Well it stemmed from me sort-of getting frustrated trying to get a feel for what my drive home was going to be like sitting in a parking lot and kind-of tapping between all these different sites,” Fales explained.

Fales found himself going up and over Bozeman pass all the time and knew that the Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) has all sorts of websites with road condition information that he wanted to put into one application.

The result was a phone app called PassWarrior that he released in 2018 for Apple and just came out last month on the Google Play Store for Android devices as well.