Why is the positive elevation gain calculated in downhill skiing?
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I recently recorded my first alpine downhill skiing activities with Suunto Vertical and realised that it counts the positive elevation gain.
I don’t understand the point of counting it since you go up with the lifts. Is there a way to correct this bug?
This bug is even more annoying on Strava because this elevation gain is added to that of other activities. -
@Fabio-Perotti I already mentioned that several times. I manually edit activity after it’s done to bring back total distance to downhill distance, and set elevation to 0.
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@Fabio-Perotti I think noone here will have an explanation for you, on why this is implemented the way it is…
How to correct: Yes, you can manually edit the activity afterwards and change ascent to the actual value you think is correct.
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Nobody knows how you got up the hill except for you. You could do it on foot with your skis on the back. You could also ski uphill on downhill skis using XC skiing technique. Not something you wanna do extensively, but it is possible. The watch is not making assumptions on such things.
Suunto 9 Peak Pro
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@cheetah694 fair enought, but with ski resort activity, one could expect that 99,9% of time you take the ski lift ; otherwise, in the cases you mention, I would rather use another ski sport mode.
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@cheetah694 Isn’t that we have different ski modes? XC or Backcountry I would expect everything is added, but Alpine/Downhill skiing I would suggest nothing is added (or at least where ski-lifts are). Just my opinion also this bug/feature was annoying me for quite few years, since I only get to do downhill.
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@aiv4r Where I live I have to often ski uphill a little bit even with the lifts, because the plateau is often not perfectly flat. That wouldn’t make my workout neither XC, nor backcountry though. Granted, the watch could probably allow to make a custom sport mode where the elevation is always set to 0 automatically. It’s the same as skiing on the lake. It’s absolutely flat, yet the watch calculates elevation gain due to the fact that it’s hard to detect the actual elevation both with GPS and barometer.
