Noobie question about pre-loading gpx course for a hike

Alright I've got a noobie question... I downloaded a gpx course to my instinct in the hopes of being able to track my progress on the course while hiking. When I go to "Navigate" I can pull up the course I downloaded, but then I couldn't go to my "Hike" activity screens that I set up, nor could I figure out a way to customize the "Navigate" data screens to look like the ones I set up for a hike?

I guess I'm a bit unsure how to use the navigate vs hike activity? Ideally I'd love to have my main "Hike" data screen with time, distance, HR... and then be able to use the scroll up/down to see other data pages - the 2nd one being the map with the pre-loaded gpx course of what I *plan* to hike & my location on it. I managed to get the "map" data screen to map/show me what I've hiked already, but is there a way to overlay a preset course?

Thanks in advance!

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dav.dc over 6 years ago +2

If I understand correctly your problem I think you are making a confusion between the "Navigate" activity and "Navigation" feature that you can use inside any activity.

What you should…

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0 dav.dc over 6 years ago

If I understand correctly your problem I think you are making a confusion between the "Navigate" activity and "Navigation" feature that you can use inside any activity.

What you should do is:
- go to your "Hike" activity
- press "Up" to go to options and choose "Navigation"->"Courses"
- choose the course you want to do and enjoy !

Once you are navigating your course, if you go to "Options" you will see two different types of settings:
- "Hike settings" which are specific to your "Hike" activity (no matter if you are navigating or not)
- "Navigation settings" which are specific to the "Navigation" feature (and will be the same for any activity from which you use navigation).

The "Navigate" activity makes sense only if you want to use "Navigation" but you are not doing any kind of sport (for example finding your way in a new city)

0 CBG13 over 6 years ago

Thanks, dav.dc - you're correct!, I was going to the navigate activity (and then unable to also get to the hike activity)... I'll try again tomorrow and see if I can get it right following your steps / within in the hike activity!