Is there a way to track back and have a direction to the starting point with the distance?

Former Member over 4 years ago

I'm doing lot of mountain biking, typically in forest trails and it would be nice to have a way of knowing what's the distance to my starting point, and in which direction that is.

This is something I used to have when I had a Suunto watch, where "go back to start" would show me a simple arrow pointing to the starting point alongside with the distance. This was very helpful to understand where I should go in order to get back to where I started from.

I haven't found this in Garmin Fenix 6X that I have. The track back either can route back to reverse path (don't always want to do that if I'm only a mile away from home), or try to plan a route, which doesn't work in the middle of the forest trails.

Any idea how I could have this functionality, or is there a specific widget doing the same?

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0 phoglund_ over 4 years ago

I think there are several CIQ data fields that can do this. For instance this Check out this app from the Garmin Connect IQ Store https://apps.garmin.com/en-GB/apps/febda9f5-4fb0-4ded-bcf6-de32303a3414

I suppose you also can at start save your location (with a hot key) and later chose to navigate to a Saved location. Never tested it and hopefully it do not change routing to 'Use map'-mode.

Maybe there are an option to get the track back to follow a straight line...

0 Former Member over 4 years ago in reply to phoglund_

Thanks, this ”Back to Start” field seems to be a solution I’m looking for and will test this out on my next ride.

0 pietero over 4 years ago

On my F6s* I have the options

1) 'Navigation - Back to Start - Straight Line'

2) Also - the option to navigate to a Saved WP. (Provided one has saved this at start of activity.

3) If I stop the Activity, apart from the options Save, Resume etc, there is also a 'Back To Start' option, either with TracBack or with the 'Straight Line' option.

*Not sure if the 6X will also have these options.

0 Former Member over 4 years ago in reply to pietero

6x has 2 options, track back with reverse route or routing a new route but that tries to navigate through roads even though I’ve chosen ”shortest route”. So this custom field seem to be the option for me.