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Difference between activities such as walk and hike?

Tim_B_
over 4 years ago

Hi, I’ve only had my fenix 6X Pro for a couple of days and trying to get my head around things such as the activity modes.

Are there any fundamental differences in the way the device operates between say using the modes Walk or Hike?
Does the device function differently, or do they just give you a different default set of screens which could be changed to be the same anyway?

If I create a course in Garmin Connect and call it a Hike, is it only available under Hike in the watch etc?

  • 0 over 2 years ago

    It looks like it is a big difference in calculating the length of a walk. We walked in the mountain of tracks with 2 Fenix 6. The hiking program calculated 50% longer walk then the walk program.

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to 3627889

    It is interesting and contradictory to my intuition, which says that hiking is more common in areas of really bad gps reception, so more smoothing is needed in order to exclude unreal wobbling.

    And the grades of the terrain should not count, since both walk and hike apps are able to take it into consideration.

    But I have  two ideas: 

    1. have you checked that whether on your F6s had fully the same settings of hike and walk? Especially as regards 3D distance (and 3D speed)?

    2. None of you have worn a footpod, have you? Because the inclusion of a footpod, either a calibrated or an uncalibrated one, changes the game of distance calculation.

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to Tisztul_A_Visztula

    No, i have not checked the settings on the two watches. The only check I had was that day 2 of the hike we both used hiking mode and then the distance of walk was correct on both watches. My theory is that the differences is because the way the different  modes are calculating the distance when it is a lot of up and down in the terrain. Another theory is that the walk mode is stopping the tracking when the gradient is high and changing, but that is a bit strange because the setting for auto pause is off.

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to 3627889

    It sounds logical. Maybe it has nothing to do with 3D distance settings, which is disabled by default, both for walk and hike apps, I guess, 

    Unfortunately I wont be able to test it, because I use footpods, not just when hiking, but in most cases also for walks.