Step counting bug in backcountry ski mode

If it is a bug or working as designed is up to the individual, if I would change to Suunto, coming from Garmin I would find their behaviour odd. For me skiing is not walking even if the body movement in some cases is very close.

Hi Tobias,

not sure you are aware of what backcountry skiing/skitouring/alpine touring e.g. in the Alps is in contrast to alpine skiing and also in contrast to crosscountry skiing and fjell skiing (three very different disciplines):

blog.skis.com/.../

If steps should not count during the ascent in backcountry skiing, they should also not count in alpine hiking.

9329803 said:

not sure you are aware of what backcountry skiing is in contrast to alpine skiing and also in contrast to crosscountry skiing (three very different disciplines).

Of course I do, should have replied with backcountry skiing but for most of us in the nordic countries (and of course other countries where alpine skiing, xc skiing and backcountry skiing is common) we are well aware of the differences and by the context there is no doubt what we talk about if we just say skiing...

9329803 said:

alpine hiking

In this case I might be wrong but alpine hiking is something you do without skis.

As I said I think that this is very individual, you and others wan't steps to count but I and others don't. I remember a very old discussion about steps during running activities where some argued that it shouldn't count to the daily steps. The argument was that daily steps is something you do daily outside of activities. Reasonable but I don't agree.

also for me this is a problem....during the activity steps are a lot..

I fully agree with you. This is odd and it would be great if garmin would either fix it or give user the power to switch counting on and off

I fully agree. This is odd. Had have that strang situation today too. Either garmin should fix or give users the power to switch counting on and off as appreciated by the individual user. 

I wrote to garmin to report the problem to these email address ([email protected]) .. do it too

I can't send the mail..you succeeded?

I find this odd too. Especially since steps ARE recorded when doing the XC Nordic Skiing. Why wouldn't steps be recorded on Backcountry Skiing, when that activity is much more "step" related (especially up hill) that xc skiing in groomed tracks are...