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Hello,
Looking to see if anyone has used any Free or Cheap Android ski apps that log your runs etc?
Any suggestions and links to downloads would be great
Thanks
Stuart
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Android Skip Apps???
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...Is that like an App for getting fit? 
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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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No. Looking for a GPS based app that shows you the runs on the mountain, then can track where you have been, on which runs, average speed, ft climed and dropped etc.
Loads out there but some of the Snowheads must have tried and tested some of them and know which to use and which to avoid?
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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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Hi,
I tried two options...
google tracks, which is free, but has no piste maps, just some general stats, used that last year. Main target was the stats. Performed great.
Will be trying satski this year, this has slope maps for your resort of choice, and can locate your buddies near you on the slopes.
Both are available in the app store
Nick
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You'll need to Register first of course.
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Last season I used Sportypal on my HTC Desire, in conjunction with an Aquapac armband, and it worked really well - I also use it regularly for cycling and running.
It does munch the battery a bit but I managed to record a full morning session - 2-3 hours and usually 1-2 hours in the afternoon aswell.
This year (next week!) I'll be using it again but I'm going to take a portable recharger (a power monkey or something) to top up the battery at lunchtime. You don't need data turned on to use it and infact, I turned all radio off and just left GPS on to extend the battery as much as possible and it worked fine.
Here's a couple of links to "workouts" I recorded last season with it:
http://sportypal.com/Workouts/Details/942589
http://sportypal.com/Workouts/Details/911358
As you can see, it marks your tracks pretty well and on the phone it'll tell you you've done say 45km in 3 hrs, but once you've uploaded it, their servers remove the distance and time spent ascending which they assume is you being on a lift and mark those parts of the "workout" green and there's a bunch of stats you can analyse as well. They do a pro version which costs money but I don't know what the enhancements are over the free one - there's no adds anyway!
Hope that helps!
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AlpineReplay is free and seems to get mentioned a lot. It also has a lot of good reviews
I have not used it yet but will be when I go away in two weeks
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Oh and go on the website it has a little demo video of what it does, It also stores all your info online
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Hi Jma
Just looked at your tracks
What do blue and red line signify, are they blue and red pistes
Does Sportpal, know what colour piste you did
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Not GPS based, and you don't even need a phone, but skiline.cc works very well for the resorts/lifts it covers - it takes the data from your lift pass usage.
So far this season it tells me I've done 86,134 vertical metres, taken 238 lifts and skied around 541.4 km - but it doesn't work where I am this week, so you can probably add another 25-30k of vertical to that.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Hi dublin1,
No, those colours aren't anything to do with the pistes you're on. The blue tracks are when you're descending (i.e. skiing) and the green ones are when you're ascending (it assumes you're the on a lft). The red track is just the descent that starts from the highest altitude (From what I can see!).
Sportypal simply records your GPS location every few seconds and then overlays the data onto Google Maps. It also makes generalised calculations about calories used, etc etc. As long as you select 'sking' as your activity before you start your workout then it works out when you were descending/ascending and changes the colour of the track accordingly. It's not a ski-specific app so is not equiped with any resort data like lifts/pistes etc. It's really more of a GPS training app - I use it nearly every day for cycling and running - but it's free, easy to use, has worked without problems for nearly 2 years for me and does what I want when it comes to recording skiing too!
jma
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