Security issue with routes

galerna

Today, I ended my activity at the top of a mountain.
I was planning to rest, eat, enjoy the view and then start another activity for the downhill part of my hike. Big mistake…

It quickly became foggy, so I wanted to use my watch to find my way down by following the uphill track. To my surprise, I found out that this simple task is impossible.

The track is in my watch, but I can’t use it!

What a terrible and dengerous design decision: in order to see any of your tracks, you first need to download it to your phone, convert it to a route in the app and finally upload it again to the watch.
But surprise, surprise, my phone was dead: no battery…

This makes no sense, why can’t I follow tracks that are already on my watch?

freeheeler

@galerna

if you don’t end your activity but select track back you will be guided exactly the way you have tracked so far, back to your starting point

sky-runner

@freeheeler And even without the recently introduced Track Back function it is fairly easy to follow breadcrumbs by looking at the map. Track Back doesn’t really add that much.

freeheeler

@sky-runner
it guides you a bit more than just the breadcrumbs, but yes… in a really critical situation breadcrumbs would do it, too.

in unknown terrain and location a little bit of planning ahead wouldn’t hurt

Squirrel

@sky-runner said in Security issue with routes:

And even without the recently introduced Track Back function it is fairly easy to follow breadcrumbs by looking at the map

Not if you stop the activity like the OP, or your watch restarts, like yours did. Then you’re left with nothing, since you can’t load saved activities as routes, without your phone.

freeheeler

@Squirrel

the less we plan the bigger the adventure

elbee

@galerna said in Security issue with routes:

But surprise, surprise, my phone was dead: no battery…

This was your security issue. I hope you learned to always have a backup.

(I hope you don’t think I’m being pedantic. I sincerely want people to respect the mountains and know the fast changing environment it can be)

galerna

"if you don’t end your activity… "

Yes but I did end it and was in trouble.

All your answers make no sense and don’t address the point:
Who is the genius in Suunto who decided you need to download tracks to a phone and then upload them back in order to be able to follow them on the watch?

The data is already in the watch, let me use it, please!

And besides, the battery of my watch outlasts the one of my phone, so the situation was not unexpectable (some of you who answered would probably come up with this great solution: make the battery of the watch last less