My Fenix Pro 7s Sapphire Solar always reports elevation gain way too high.

I am beyond frustrated. My elevation was always wildly higher than it should be on my Fenix 7s Solar. I upgraded to the Fenix Pro 7s Sapphire Solar thinking the multi-band GPS would fix the problem. I just ran 15 trail miles with a friend yesterday who has a Coros Apex 2. His run seemed pretty accurate at around 1800ft of elevation gain. I was right with him the whole time and my watch reported 2800ft!!!

This has been a constant problem. this stat is really important to me in my training for ultras next year and this means all those fancy new stats like Hill Performance and whatever are totally bunk. What can I think of doing except switch to Coros? This is a very expensive problem. And I see sooo many others in this forum with the same problem.

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Penny Zee 9 months ago in reply to jan.shim +1

Oh! Never mind! Just saw your post after a google search of “Garmin fenix left wrist”.

Whoa!

So, I had already assumed that it was likely that I’m a heavy sweater. Always have been. I…

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0 jan.shim 9 months ago

Hello Penny, do you by any chance wear your Fenix 7s on your left wrist? If you do I may have the answer to your problem.

0 jan.shim 9 months ago

Hello Penny, do you by any chance wear your Fenix 7s on your left wrist? If you do I may have the answer to your problem.

0 Penny Zee 9 months ago in reply to jan.shim

Sorry, i dont understand. Why would that matter?

0 Penny Zee 9 months ago in reply to jan.shim

And, yeah. Left wrist.

0 Penny Zee 9 months ago in reply to jan.shim

Oh! Never mind! Just saw your post after a google search of “Garmin fenix left wrist”.

Whoa!

So, I had already assumed that it was likely that I’m a heavy sweater. Always have been. I figured my sweat was messing with the sensor. But I couldn’t figure out any way to deal with it. And honestly, I do not want to put it on my right wrist. My brain is not super flexible. That is wild, though. I hope Garmin follows up and works on this.

i seem to remember you used to be able to use GPS for altitude instead of barometric pressure/altimeter, but that seems to be gone. It’s so frustrating. I’ve honestly given up on it being accurate.

good sleuthing!!!