Skiing activity confuses Lifting and Runs

https://forums.garmin.com/outdoor-recreation/outdoor-recreation/f/marq-gen-2/355148/total-ski-distance-still-wrong-after-update-to-v15-76-v15-77

This was done purposefully through a recent update with no explanation and no upcoming fix.

Thanks for your answer.

I cannot believe that's on purpose, for example, a downhill run was recognized as lifting - which is obviously not correct.

Are you aware of any workaround oder how to manually label each run?

It's unfortunate and ill-advised, especially because the feature worked so well before and other fitness trackers don't do this.

The only work around is to pause your activity at the bottom of the slope and restart at the top of the lift. Very difficult to do with gloves and heavy winter jackets, I'm afraid.

I haven't tried this, but does it work if you turn off the manual run option and press the button at the top and bottom of every run?

I'm going on a ski trip next week and I am extremely disappointed that Garmin has completely broken the ski activity.

Having said that, the backcountry ski activity was broken last year, so I used the mountain biking activity instead. It doesn't show you runs per se, but if you use the speed overlay on the map you can see the ups and the downs quite well because of the difference in speed.

This is a big fail by Garmin. The ski activity has not been working properly on the Fenix or the Epix for years now.

The ski activity works perfectly on my Fenix 6 Saphire on firmware 26.0.

Why the heck Garmin changed something that worked flawlessly boggles my mind, I simply can’t explain it.

When I skied before Christmas - I used my Epix Pro and Fenix 6x Pro Solar side by side.  The Fenix 6x worked perfect and, as we all know, the Epix Pro doesn't give accurate data.  What I really disliked was when the activities transferred over to Training Peaks, the TSS for the Epix Pro was 250+ and the TSS for the Fenix was around 50.  Given my activity level for the ski day, the Fenix was right on target.  For an endurance athlete like myself, the data from the Epix Pro for skiing was worthless.  I'll just have to keep and use my Fenix 6x for all my Ski activities.  Sad that a nice new product like the Epix Pro isn't worth it - for skiing anyway.  Makes me wonder what other activities are not as accurate than my trusty Fenix 6x?

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Please keep me updated on the issue and maybe a post-run fix of past activities. Thanks for the update though