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BUG: Traversing the same hiking path cancels the previous information

When hiking and one returns on the same path as what one has already walked before, it cancels the hiking information from the first time on that path.

Twice now, I did a hike where a few times during the hike, I walked the same path back again. Instead of showing a total hiking distance of around 8km, it only shows less than 3km. The 3km seems to be the unique path only and does not include the paths that were talked twice during the same hike.

Here are the two hikes I did recently that show this. Is this a recently introduced bug?

Actual hike - showing short distance information only of less than 3km:

https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/7739855608

The planned hike, where the total distance of almost 8km can be seen. We even did more than the planned hike:

www.komoot.com/.../538019303

Here is another completed hike, that also don't show the entire distance, but most likely only the paths that one walked once:

https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/7702821198

0 Dan.Boilermaker over 3 years ago

What are your GPS settings? The GPS track looks very disjointed like you might be using UltraTrac as your GPS setting? Make sure you GPS settings are set to 1 second and turn off Auto Pause for a much better recording of your hike and subsequently much better distance calculations.

0 Jacques over 3 years ago in reply to Dan.Boilermaker

My GPS is set to GPS + Galileo, for more maximum accurate GPS sensitivity here in Europe.

I have now, as per your suggestion, also turned off Auto Pause and set my Smart Recording to 1 second.

The only thing that I changed, about a month ago, was to activate Auto Pause. Perhaps this is the problem, but I wonder how this can affect the rest of my hike and making the watch think I am pausing while I am actually hiking.

The reason I activated Auto Pause is so that once the hike is auto-uploaded to Komoot, one can there notice the two times of active hiking and total hiking.

Thanks for the answer. I will have a look at when I hike again. These two hikes that I posted, were between high mountains, so the GPS signal probably got lost a few times. When I am hiking again in the coming months, there will be fewer high mountains. I'll keep you posted on this thread.