Hiking profile

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Antonio Ruiz

• March 09, 2021 07:50

Hi there,

Is there any hiking specific profile? I mean, i plan to use the karoo not only for my biclycle but also for hiking and would like to see those "rides" as "hikes" instead.

All activities recorded with the karoo 2 seem to save and upload as bike rides. Say you want it for hiking or that you want to record or any other outdoor sport, how do you tell karoo or dashboard it was not a bike ride?

Think of wikiloc, before you start recording an activity you're prompted to choose what type of activity you're doing. If one uses the k2 for bike 99% of times maybe you don't need/want that, but at least we could have dedicated profiles for other sports.

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  Ali

  • March 10, 2021 07:52

  Hi Perchera, there is no Hiking profile as of now, and I am sorry that there's nothing planned in the near term o long term. That being said, the software is constantly evolving - and if we get enough interest from the community, and value  - we would surely like to explore this world.

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  Peter sejersen

  • March 13, 2021 19:41

  I also think a "Hiking" profile would be a useful feature. The K2 is small and light enough to make a perfect hiking GPS and it already comes with a lanyard. I will definitely use it for hiking on days where I'm not riding and would love to have the ability to upload as a hike/walk instead of a ride.

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  Markus Kirchhofer

  • March 15, 2021 11:01

  Currently my workaround is the following:

  • I define a profile Hike
  • I defined "bikes" named "hiking", "running", ...
  • If I start a hike I use the hike profile and assign the "bike" named "hiking"

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  Antonio Ruiz

  • March 15, 2021 15:52

  @Markus, good idea, setting a "fake bike" as hiking.

  I was thinking of some more settings like minimum speed for example. For biking anything below 0,5kms hour is usually considered a stop/pause and recording by seconds is fine but for hiking the speed is usually lower and we might want to record by meters (say 5m) instead of by secs, but yeah, your trick might work if we don't have a specific hiking profile.

  Anyways i upload most of my rides and hikes to Connect and Wikiloc which are my main activities logs. Not so worried about how HH will display my activities but more about how HH treats activities that are considerably different (hiking vs riding)

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  Brian Sawyer

  • May 30, 2021 20:26

  I know this is an old thread but I would like to throw my head in for also agreeing a hiking profile would be awesome. I use my phone with alltrails but believe that this would be much more convenient.

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  Daniel Crumbley

  • August 18, 2021 08:04

  Yep, it would be great for that and also kayaking as well.

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