July 15, 2021

Files from my June trip

Leslie from Garmin asked me to dump the FIT files from my Garmin 66i to help her troubleshoot the problem with inReach tracking turning itself off.

My last trip was in the California High Sierra backpacking and lasted 8 days. I used my 66i every day (as I remember) and used both inReach tracking and Activity tracking on each of those days.

I started hiking on Sunday June 20, 2021, and the last day hiking was Sunday June 27.

Now, looking at my mapshare page, I try to determine which days tracking shut itself off. After spending some time attempting this, I cannot put my finger on a day when it failed. At least part of the problem is that I am checking for it getting turned off (not terribly often, but as often as I think of it) and turning it back on, and maybe I'm doing a better job than I think.

Links to get the FIT files

Note that there is no file for 6-26 -- I guess I never turned on activity tracking that day. Also there are 3 files for 6-25. I have noticed that the 66i does odd things sometimes when I save a file, such as restarting activity tracking for no apparent reason and such, at this point who knows, and I don't have a tool to examine these files (other than my 66i).
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