Assigning Multiple Default Gear to an Activity

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Hi everyone,

I have a quick question regarding gear management. How can I best assign multiple default gear items to an activity like Backcountry Skiing?

For example, I have my ski touring skis set as the default gear for Backcountry Skiing.
However, I also have three different ski touring boots, and I want my primary boot to be set as the default. If I use a different pair, I would manually switch them.

Additionally, I might want to assign my ski touring skins as well.

Right now, I can only assign one gear item per activity, but I can’t find a way to assign multiple (e.g., ski + boots + skins).

Am I missing something, or is it really limited to a 1-to-1 relationship instead of N-to-1?

Thanks!
Best regards from Tirol,
Andy

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You need to define each different combination as a gear.
Gear 1 = ski 1 + boot 1 + skin 1
Gear 2 = Ski 1 + boot 2 + skin3
etc…
Not super efficient, but that’s the only way now.

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But then I would never get the total kilometers or total elevation gain for my ski, boots or skins since it would be split across multiple gear combinations… ? That kind of defeats the purpose, doesn’t it? :disappointed:

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The skins, boots, ski’s become components which are separately tracking usage

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Oh, I see – now I get what you mean. That would end up being quite a lot of combinations, and unfortunately, it’s not really practical…

4 skis
3 boots
3 skins

all in different combinations …

So, in the end, there’s no really good solution to map such multi-gear setups?
Well, maybe something will come along at some point :slight_smile:

Thanks a lot, cheers!

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i use Garmin to track mine individually, so I can also track jerseys and bibs separately

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tbh - never looked into Garmin Gear Tracking, used Strava firsthand … (not really good ^^)
Guess I’ll have a look into Garmin’s Gear Tracking … thx 4 pointing it out.

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Just to mention another idea:
You could use custom fields.

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In the fitness chart you can filter those for cumulative distance and so on.

I read David is working on ability for custom fitness charts/tables, so then you could show these even better in a table.

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ok - 1 Minute - and Garmin Gear Tracking already disqualified itself - no way to set “Backcountry Skiing” as Default for Gear … only 5 sports choosable … WHY?! does one limit it to a few fixed sports when you can track dozens … come one … :roll_eyes::person_facepalming:t2:

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nice idea - but then I would have to set them manually on every activity, no auto gear assign possible I guess? :thinking:

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You can do this with the script :slight_smile:
By name, distance, tag, whatever.

E.g.

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oh … now it’s getting interesting … :slightly_smiling_face:
Guess I will have to look into this approach … thx! :slight_smile: :+1:t2:

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i coded this to make it easy for me to assign gears automatically based on sports.
(but deficiencly is it can’t track like Runs where you want to alternate shoes)

or if you have multiple bikes