During a hike activity, how does one directly route to a saved location anymore?

Thanks!  I did try this briefly and it seemed potentially useful for other direct navigations needs, but not for my need to get back to my Saved Location (unless I'm missing something).  Also at the time I really wanted to keep my Hiking activity going and just do the direct nav.

Somethings mixed up, I'm not sure it's me though.  I do now see that direct routing is actually still under "Routing", within activity settings...I just couldn't find it before, because the Hiking activity had a setting under Routing called "Activity" with a default setting of "Hiking".  That made me think it was a name and no more.  As I said before, when I looked later I found I could set that to "Mountaineering".  Then my Hiking activity would have routing settings for "Mountaineering" which would still calculate a crazy route along the nearest road or trail to the mountain peak I set as a Saved Location I was trying to go to.  I could also set the Hiking activity Routing - Activity setting to "Motorcycle".  I guess that would then only route to Saved Locations along routes labeled as passable by a motorcycle.

I also see what you mean about copying the activity profile "Navigate", that makes sense to me and seems like a good idea.

Now that I know how to route directly on-the-fly, I think maybe my biggest concern is just that the name "Routing - Activity" is misleading.  It should be "Routing - Style" or "Routing - Paths" or something because it actually has little to do with the Activity.  The Showshoe activity routing default is "Hiking", for example, even though it's unlikely that most snowshoe activities actually try or need to follow trails.

My second biggest concern is with the lack of documentation re: what the values under there actually mean / what they really do.  The entire documentation content says only this:

Activity

Sets an activity for routing. The watch calculates routes optimized for the type of activity you are doing.

(The above doc is here online.  Some of the content is new, hence purple background).

That's it.  No list of the available options, what they do, or the fact that Direct Routing is an option. Although on the trail I didn't even think to look at this, seeing it now and looking at the values and what I know of its behavior I think this is totally wrong.  They overload/misuse the word "Activity", and it definitely does not optimize the route for the type of activity the name implies.

I can guess what's going on.  The list there represents sets of "capability" attributes on the paths encoded into the maps.  A route will only be calculated where a path has compatible attributes to the activity setting chosen.  And many of the other "Activities", like Hunt, Fish, Sailing, SUP, etc. are not on the list because either they have special UI associated with the actual activity (like Hunt, Reference Point, etc) or the expected routing behavior is completely subsumed by an existing value in the list (so Snowshoe uses "Hike", and Sailing uses "Direct Routing").  But with zero explanation of exactly what they mean by "The watch calculates routes optimized..." everyone is really left in the dark.

Keep in mind that your GPS device or app's accuracy may depend on factors such as signal strength, terrain, and weather conditions. It's always a good idea to bring a physical map, know how to use traditional navigation methods Golden Tree Roofing, and inform someone about your hiking plans for safety.

How about my amazing next-level stupidity: I just discovered direct routing on the Fenix 7 but never found it on my Fenix 5 or 6.. often bringing my Fenix 3 along on trail runs just in case I would need a direct route. 

"Direct" means here in the context > "as the crow flies" or not ?

Correct

scusate, ma non capisco l'impostazione "routing diretto".

Vivo in nord Italia (=Alpi) e spesso vado in montagna. Conosco la destinazione ma avrei bisogno che il Garmin fenix 7 mi calcoli il percorso migliore ma poi mi DICA vibrando se devo andare a destra o a sinistra.

é possibile farlo? è possibile avere delle indicazioni sul percorso?

I hope this is relevant...I have 200 saved locations, and I've reverted back to 13.22 as if you have many saved locations,they can't be used in my hike activity, when I try and press for the saved location to navigate too,I get sent to the around me screen instead, I reported the original saved locations problem before that got fixed,now there's another saved locations bug....with 13.22 ,I can at least navigate to a saved location in my hike activity sports profile.

Sam201176 said:

when I try and press for the saved location to navigate too,I get sent to the around me screen instead

I had the same problem with FW 14. After I had tried it several times again and again without success, and also always ended up in the "around me" screen, it then suddenly worked. Now no more problem with it. It seemed to me as if the saved locations must first be loaded initially after this update.