Poster: A snowHead
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Hi,
I have one and I was wondering how good the built in app was for tracking skiing? If so did it work well, how was the battery life, could you overlay it on a piste map? Does the auto detect for lifts work?
thanks
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@pieman666, I have the 1.0 Vivoactive (no inbuilt HRM). IIRC I used it last year - and it was fine, but... didn't autodetect lifts for the purposes of averages, distance, etc. hence a bit pants if that's your thang. Hopefully the developer's got it sorted by now.
Battery life - no difference to a day's UK bike riding / walking with GPS on. Ie. you'll be best to charge each evening.
Chose to use the watch over the phone apps (e.g ski tracks: other apps are available) though - rather have that charged for emergencies.
Overlay on maps was good.
HTH
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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thanks @Arctic Roll
Ski apps hammer the battery on my phone so it seems like this will work well. As you say hopefully they have sorted the pause for lifts bit out.
I will post after my holiday.
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Have been using one for just over a month and the ski app works well. Battery life was comfortable for the day but wouldn't be big enough for 2 days so charging is needed every day.
The auto detect for lifts has been correct on virtually every lift and it also detects when you are stationary so be prepared for plenty of vibrations! Was very interesting to see how little time is actually spent skiing.
I have been running Ski Tracks as well and the data is similar without any noticeable differences.
Not sure if you could overlay it on a piste map as I haven't been able to find a piste map in the right format but you can add to Strava which gives an idea.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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@ernie, that good news about the lifts - I'm out again at the end of Feb, so will be giving it a go. You're right about piste maps, but I've always overlaid on Strava or Google, and since we tend to ski, bike and walk the same area, I know the terrain pretty well so am happy with that option.
But if you find a piste map version, do share!
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