Originally Posted by
Sy Reene
As for your mountain trips, I'm just curious as to how you know the "real" climbing elevation over the course of the trip? Obviously you probably know your starting and ending elevation, but that doesn't account for ups and downs in the middle.. unless the rides are only going up up up..
The Garmin is much more accurate with elevation at places other than sea level, even Garmin admits it's way off at sea level. So I can trust it in the mountains of Virginia where the rides start and end at the same spot as well and the elevation is correct, I also used a GPS app on my phone to check elevation when I was at summits etc and it was close to the Garmin reading. But I also had mapped the rides out on RWGPS and the elevation was accurate with is as well. That's why I wish I could turn off the elevation at sea level.