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Garmin Adventures

Former Member
Former Member over 13 years ago
Any scheduled maintenance on the Garmin Adventure servers will occur Tuedays at 7:45am CT. Most maintenance down times will be less than 20 min. If you are experiencing an issue with adventures during this time, please try again later.

More on adventures here: adventures.garmin.com

New firmware with adventure support has been released for:

Montana
62 Series (includes 78 series)
Oregon x50 Series
Dakota



“Garmin Adventures” is a new feature that allows you to easily share trips and photos and lets you find Adventures by other Garmin users. You can download a track from your GPS to BaseCamp, add some photos, videos and annotations; upload the trip as an Adventure and then share it via the Garmin Adventures web site with friends and family. BaseCamp allows you to author Adventures, and use a playback feature so you can re-live your trip. In the near future, Garmin devices will add support for Adventures as well.

The BaseCamp 4.0.0.4 gives you an early preview into Garmin Adventures. Please let us know how you like it and what you think we can improve. BaseCamp 4.0.0.4 will lead you to short surveys that will help us make Adventures a better product. If you have a minute to spare, please fill out these surveys. Thanks.

Finding Adventures



You can use BaseCamp’s find feature to locate other Adventures. You can download Adventures that you would like to take a closer look at. If you'd like to follow an adventure, just transfer it to your device.

Adventure Display and Playback



You can view details about an Adventure, and use the Playback feature. The Playback experience will be better if you have a Topo map and BirdsEye imagery. Check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8al8CHqOBmg for an example.

Creating an Adventure



You can create an Adventure from any track, either from My Collection or directly from your device. BaseCamp will locate photos and waypoints in the vicinity of the Adventure track. You can add annotations, YouTube videos and additional photos. It is important that you enter a good description so other can better experience your Adventure. Note that you can pick from the prepopulated list of activities or simply enter your own.

Each Adventure has its own database, so you can play around with your Adventure’s data without making any changes in your data in My Collection.

Publishing an Adventure

Once you are happy with your adventure, you can publish it. You can share a published adventure with friends and family (http://adventures.garmin.com/en-US/by/eracerz/hanakapiai-falls-trail-hike-2), you can link the adventure to your favorite social media site, you can use it to back-up your trip and download it again on a different machine and you can help fellow Adventurers find interesting stuff to do.
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 12 years ago
    Thank you for compiling the document.

    I tried the two adventures you had trouble with (Devils Bridge and Fiery Furnace) and it all seemed to work fine with the Montana 600 I have here.

    Does this happen as well if you try to just send 1 or 2 adventures to the Montana? I know it's annoying to test this because you'd have to delete the adventures that are already on the unit but I'd like to pin down if this is maybe related to some interplay between different adventures or if it's something else.
  • 0 over 12 years ago
    Thank you for compiling the document.

    I tried the two adventures you had trouble with (Devils Bridge and Fiery Furnace) and it all seemed to work fine with the Montana 600 I have here.

    Does this happen as well if you try to just send 1 or 2 adventures to the Montana? I know it's annoying to test this because you'd have to delete the adventures that are already on the unit but I'd like to pin down if this is maybe related to some interplay between different adventures or if it's something else.


    I did just that after compiling that report last night, but with about ten adventures only.

    I will try again, one-adventure-at-a-time today, and report back.

    I also had the long denied 'White Screen of Death' occur just after doing that report last night, where the Montana stopped responding with a bright white screen, and I had to remove the battery to get it to reboot, after which, many profiles were corrupted and settings altered. I am working through all that today as well. :)
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 12 years ago
    I also got a Montana 650 and tried it on that one as well, with no success (meaning it worked fine).

    You do have the latest firmware, right? When you check for updates with BaseCamp it doesn't offer any?
  • 0 over 12 years ago
    I also got a Montana 650 and tried it on that one as well, with no success (meaning it worked fine).

    You do have the latest firmware, right? When you check for updates with BaseCamp it doesn't offer any?


    My apologies for not mentioning it earlier.

    I am running Firmware 4.60 on my Montana 650, and running BaseCamp 4.0.2.0 on my WIN XP 32-bit SP3 machine with 3GB Ram, a Dual Core 2.8 GHz Pentium Processor, and I had toast with jam and coffee for breakfast today ;-)

    Did some quick testing with a different Computer (also 32 bit Win XP SP3) and BaseCamp 4.0.2.0:

    Downloaded and re-sent Devils Bridge Arch to my Montana 650, Rebooted the Montana, and when I pulled up DBA, all tracks and waypoints and photos were present!

    BUT, I noticed some of the Adventures I had loaded were missing now, so I reconnected to BaseCamp and found that 'Zion National Park Observation Point Trail' had been deleted from my Montana in the process!



    So, add one Adventure, Lose another....

    And now all I did was disconnect and reboot my Montana, reconnect to BaseCamp, and 'Zion and Bryce Canyon NP' ADV has been removed from my Montana!



    Rinse, Lather, Repeat, and 'Devils Garden Primitive Loop' ADV in deleted.



    Just drove home from work, reconnect to home PC, start BaseCamp, and now I have somewhere lost Havasupai Waterfalls and Fiery Furnace:



    What's going on here?

    Well, now I am on a roll, so I just started Rebooting the Montana, over and over again, without connecting to any PC.

    And guess what? Each and every time, one Adventure was deleted from Memory until there were only three. And then with each re-boot, the three remaining Adventures remained.

    The Final Three:

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 12 years ago
    That is indeed very strange... I'll try to reproduce this here.

    Sorry again for the inconvenience, and thanks for your investigative work.
  • 0 over 12 years ago
    That is indeed very strange... I'll try to reproduce this here.

    Sorry again for the inconvenience, and thanks for your investigative work.


    Thank You.

    Anything more I can do to help.... Let me know.

    My Montana still randomly 'looses' adventures with power cycles, but not every time. Three more have gone missing over the weekend.

    I have video of this occurring taken with my iPhone 4s.
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 12 years ago
    Would you mind sharing your Montana's GarminDevice.xml file? I just want to make sure we have the same conditions.
  • 0 over 12 years ago
    Would you mind sharing your Montana's GarminDevice.xml file? I just want to make sure we have the same conditions.


    Still having massive issues with being kicked out of the forum over and over and over....

    Tried to send PM, three times, never went through.

    Try this link
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 12 years ago
    Adventure's Images on Handheld

    I've successfully transferred an Adventure to my Garmin 450. When I go to the list of items in the adventure, I see that there is 1 track, several waypoints, and 25 photos, all as I intended. I had resized the original photos to be 500kb each. The tiny photo icons appear in their proper place on the track map, so I know they're properly geotagged.

    When I pull up a list of the photos on the device, and then touch one of the photos on the list, and then touch the name of the photo at the top of the map, all I see is text information about the photo (some of the exif data). Is there a way to view the photo itself rather than just some of the exif data? The 500kb photos are all there, in the adventure file folder on the device's internal memory, but I can't seem to view the photo other than as a tiny tiny icon on the photo list.
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 12 years ago
    Still having massive issues with being kicked out of the forum over and over and over....

    Tried to send PM, three times, never went through.

    Try this link


    Thank you. The link worked. I will take a look.

    I apologize for the forum issues, I will keep bugging IT about it.