Garmin Adventures

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.

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

Posted my first adventure the other day. Wow. What an amazing way to share your trips with friends. I do have a few questions though.

A) How long does your published adventure link last online?
B) Is there an easy way to search and explore adventures? Perhaps rate and comment without opening basecamp?

They last as long as Garmin supports Adventures (which we hope will be a very long time) and as long as you don't remove it.

Right now you will have to go through BaseCamp to search for adventures and rate them. This might change in the future.

0 cliffrosson over 11 years ago

Excellent. Now if I edit the adventure does the URL change?

0 cliffrosson over 11 years ago

Never mind! Link stays the same. Super awesome guys. Thanks!

0 azdrmn over 11 years ago

B) Is there an easy way to search and explore adventures? Perhaps rate and comment without opening basecamp?

The Garmin Adventures web page is adding the ability to search for and rate adventures without using BaseCamp. You'll still need to use BaseCamp to get it to your device or author new ones.

0 atlas_cached over 11 years ago

Falagar, I am having issues with some Adventures not properly displaying all information on the GPSr, even when the data is seen on the GPSr in windows explorer. Can you test and inform if this is an issue with BaseCamp, the Adventure, or the GPSr?

Thank You!

Example: http://garminoregon6xx.wikispaces.com/share/view/64069560

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

I really like the adventure feature except the fact that you can not easily share your adventures privately. Who wants to publish their favorite hunting, fishing, hiking ect. ect. spot so everyone in the world knows where it is? Publishing and then archiving is not an option as who knows when Garmin will change the rules and make all adventures non-achievable? As stated I do like the Adventure feature but do not like the big brother aspect.

Is there a way to minimize the fotos or bring the tract to the front during playback of the adventure? I like to incorporate a lot of fotos and they obscure the track during playback.

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

Just a tip: I use "Garmin Adventures" for "non-conventional" purposes...

I use them for grouping a track with a waypoint (for display on the GPSr unit.) I map out ridge lines, and hardwood forests regions etc. using track design tools in Basecamp. Then I convert these into "Adventures" which (once transferred) display on the GPSr on top of other maps & BirdsEye imagery. Note: I add/assign a special symbol to a waypoint in the middle of the region & transfer these "Adventures" to the unit.

"Garmin Adventures" become a "Geographical Areas Display" feature/tool. One added benefit of this is all the "Adventures" stored on the GPSr show up in a separate list (in addition to appearing on the tracks lists), but under "Adventures" these "Geographical Areas" are isolated for selection/viewing on map. (This kind of helps as there is no way to filter, sort, or even display each track's assigned color in the "track selection lists" on a Montana GPSr.) Incidentally, this is a HUGE firmware omission, as some other "On the Trail" units (like the Oregon 6xx series) do have firmware that provides these missing track management features! :mad:

0 SUSSAMB over 11 years ago

Do nuvis accept adventures? I don't use them so I'm not sure ... but if they do I'd expect the trip at least to appear in Unscheduled Trips :confused:

0 TJ311 over 11 years ago

Is there a fix yet for the problem with reading ADVENTURES from the SD Card rather than installing them in my Monterra's internal memory? I'm running out of free space on the internal memory. Thank you.

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

Hi,

New user here. Adventures sound very interesting but I can't see any way to filter them by type. EG I'm looking for routes suitable for a road vehicle, so want to filter out hiking adventures. The same question was asked in a much earlier post but the 'Filter Search' option that was shown in that user's screenshot doesn't exist in BaseCamp 4.2.5. I can filter by stars, user name, distance, duration, difficulty and publish date, but not by the type of adventure. I've looked around the options and can't find it anywhere, what am I missing?

thanks

Edit - Never mind, seems that the Nuvo 42LM can't use or see adventures anyway so that was a whole bunch of time wasted.