Does not work : Improves the backcountry ski and snowboard activities to automatically detect climbs, descents, and transition time.

There has been this addition since 25.0

Improves the backcountry ski and snowboard activities to automatically detect climbs, descents, and transition time.

I thought cool it will be nice. And well the watch was almost always in transition mode and so was hiding information from my screen and when I look on Garmin Connect I only have some downhill.

Is it just me that it doesn't work or does it work for other people too?

So I went back to manual

Thank you in advance

0 Niterider4 over 2 years ago

I haven't tried the automatic setting yet, because I'm still using mountain biking as my activity when backcountry skiing, due to the WHR bug.

Can you comment on whether your heart rate readings for the beginning of your ski tour were realistic? Many of us have been finding that the HR readings are unrealistically low for the first 10-20 minutes, and then they seem to fairly accurate only after that.

0 Alexis_Lecanu over 2 years ago in reply to Niterider4

I don't use the HR in ski touring because my watch is on top of my jacket and I don't use a belt in ski touring.

0 awesomejack over 2 years ago

I had the exact same issue. I have a Fenix 6, software version 25.10, and I backcountry ski alot and was really excited for the new feature.

I tried it and it doesn't work at all. I had a green GPS signal, I started moving, then hit the start button and the watch recorded 5 seconds of uphill travel and then switched to transition and stayed there for the entire 1 hour climb (1 mile, 1,600 ft vert). Its especially annoying that there's a constant "Trans x:xx" bubble at the bottom of the screen which blocks the data fields when it thinks I'm transitioning.

I left the watch alone to see if it would perform any differently on the second lap, and it was the same thing. It recorded 60 seconds of decent, I made a quick stop and the watch switched to transitioning, and then assumed the remainder of the 1,500ft decent was actually an ascent and stayed there for the remaining 2 hours of activity. And the entire time it showed the transitioning bubble as well.

I tried it again on a backcountry ski today and when it was unable to detect I was traveling uphill within the first 5 min of the activity, I switched back to manual mode. Overall, the new auto-detect feature is worse than useless and I'll be using the manual mode. Is anyone else having success with it?

0 sebdegap over 1 year ago

Hi, I am having a similar issue with the detection :

For some activities I have full descents but climbing is shorten, sometimes transitions during descents, sometimes just climbing / descending with no transition at all even when I stay still.

Something is really wrong here and until this is fixed, the transition detection should be disabled.