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Expedition - climb

Pete
over 2 years ago

Hi All

My Garmin forerunner 245 is not logging my elevations during a run to the new exhibition climb challenges. The steps are logging to the hike challenges. Is there a way to fix this?

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  • 0 over 2 years ago

    I assume that only works for watches with barometric altimeter… which the FR245 does not have

    But yeah, irritating that you can join such a challenge with an incompatible watch.

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to Grumpy from dawn till dusk

    Especially since the watch can measure elevations when on a walk or run

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to Pete

    Maybe because it doesn't really measure elevation, but uses ground level (map information).

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to e-Rudy

    It's stupid anyway. I get that other watches have barometer (has lots of bugs, in fact it gets worse in each fenix6 firmware update) but hey, fr245 has a great GPS! You even know my altitude from the GPS - even if not super accurate, but on substantial climbs when you climb 600m even if you count for accuracy, it could count as 550m at least!

    But even better: Garmin know where I ran, they even do automatic elevation correction in connect website! So why not getting the climb expeditions?

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to flocsy🤠
    flocsy🤠 said:
    You even know my altitude from the GPS - even if not super accurate, but on substantial climbs when you climb 600m even if you count for accuracy, it could count as 550m at least!

    Sure, we all agree here. When I had my FR245 (got a 255 by now), I configured the „altitude“ field to my main page for hiking activities. And whilst „only“ coming from GPS, in the mountains it was always accurate with a margin of maybe 10 meters - so really quite good.

    They could count that for the challenges