Frequently asked questions

How does a peak count?

A peak counts when the track of an outdoor activity passes within 50 metres of its highest point. Any outdoor sport counts, and one ascent per peak and activity.

Altitude is not checked, only position. A peak you repeat is counted each time, but it adds only once to the count milestones.

What does "suggested" mean in the peaks table?

When a milestone lets you choose among several peaks (say, one in each comarca), any of the candidates counts the same. The suggested one is the lowest.

How does a col count?

A col counts when the track of an activity passes within 100 metres of its highest point. Only bike activities count, of any kind (e-bikes and mountain bikes too), by any road and in either direction. On foot or by car, no.

A col has one or more climbs. Reaching the col by any road makes it count; completing a climb asks for one more thing (see the next question).

When does a climb count?

A climb counts only if you set off from its foot: the track must pass within 250 metres of the foot and then reach the top. That tells the climb and the direction apart, because on a descent you meet the top before the foot.

Why does a col not count for me?

Cols count only by bike, and peakat trusts the sport the file declares: the activity's type (<type> in a GPX, Sport in a TCX, a FIT's sport). If your file declares none, for example a GPX with no <type>, we don't guess: we keep the cols it passes, uncounted, and ask whether you were on a bike.

In Account, on the Activities tab, the "No type" filter shows them. Choose "By bike" on each activity, or "All by bike" for all at once, and the cols count. "No" forgets them. If the file already named a sport, that one stands; you can fix it in the app it came from and import it again. A peak, on the other hand, counts with any sport.

Where does a climb's category come from?

From the climb's APM, which scores each kilometre by its gradient and which peakat computes from the climb's own profile. The steps are the APM forum's: 15, 30, 60, 120 and 240; the top one is HC. It is the same for everyone.

A race's lists (Tour, Vuelta, Volta) only decide which climbs are on them: those with a pass since 2000. "HC of the Tour" means the Tour's climbs whose APM category is HC, whatever the race called them in a given year. The category the organiser gave is history and decides nothing.

How do I read a climb's profile?

Each column is a kilometre, tinted by its mean gradient. The red pill marks the hardest kilometre. The black brackets above the curve are the most severe hard stretches, each with its mean gradient on it and, with ▲, that of its hardest 100 m; the bracket's width is its length, and hovering says it all. Other hard stretches are not marked: the “Stretches ≥ …” figure counts them. Each kilometre carries its gradient at the foot of its own column, written upright or, when the column is narrow, turned on its side. A kilometre that also descends is split into sections, and the descent is tinted grey-blue. Below the axis, the house is a town, the junction a numbered road, and the two lines joining mean another climb of the col arrives there.

Heights come from a 50 m digital terrain model, so a short ramp can come out steeper than it is.

A hatched band under the axis marks the unpaved stretches, as OpenStreetMap has them: gravel, dirt, compacted track or path. A stretch under 50 m is not marked, and two less than 100 m apart count as one; a climb is called unpaved from 0.2 km. Cobbles and rough asphalt count as paved.

If you only rode part of a climb, the stretch you did is marked with a dark bar under the axis and the rest is paler. On the map, the climb is the red line; the white circle is the foot and the filled one the top; ctrl/⌘ + wheel zooms.

What is a milestone and how do I earn one?

A milestone is a goal over peaks or cols: so many peaks, all of a comarca's, one in each comarca, a col of each category… Its page says what it asks for and which peaks or cols count. Repeating a peak adds nothing to a count milestone, and some milestones count only the peaks reached from a given date.

In a "one peak in each comarca" (or each vegueria) milestone, a peak on a border counts for every comarca it touches. In Andorra, the territory is the parish.

What is Regular?

Every peak and every col has its own repeat milestone: the first ascent and, from 5, 10, 25, 50 and 100 ascents, "Regular". Every ascent counts, ten laps in one activity too.

It does not appear in the general list of milestones or in the totals: it lives on the page of the peak or col.

What is "All the climbs"?

It is a col's milestone, earned when you have completed all of its climbs. If you already had it and a new climb is added, the milestone is kept and the new climb shows as "To do".

Why did I lose a milestone?

A milestone depends on the activities that make it count. If you edit or delete one of them on Strava, or delete it here, it stops counting and the milestone may go. We tell you with a notice.

Which data do we keep?

Strava API data remain temporary, for a maximum of seven days. They never enter the permanent archive.

When you import files, our server reads them in memory and discards them: we do not keep the file. For each activity we keep what we computed and a simplified route with the time and altitude of its points, until you delete it or your account, even when no peaks are detected. We do not keep sensor data. The route allows activities to be analysed again when the catalogue changes. Public links still crop the first and last kilometre.

If you connect Garmin Connect, for each new activity we keep its simplified route, like those of the files you import, until you delete the activity or your account, but not the file; if you disconnect it, what was already kept stays. The privacy policy gives the full detail.

COROS sync discards the original FIT, keeping derived outings and routes.

How do I bring my earlier activities?

Connecting only brings new activities. Garmin Connect sends us the activities you record from the moment you connect, and COROS sync reads the most recent ones; neither fetches your whole history, and what arrives on its own never has to be imported again.

To add earlier ones, use your own export. Garmin: request your data export in your Garmin account; the email with the download link usually takes about 48 hours and can take up to 30 days. COROS: export your activities as FIT files from Training Hub.

Then import the ZIP whole, without unzipping it: Garmin's contains other ZIPs with the recordings, and we open them for you. The CSV list of activities is only a summary, without the track, so it is not enough. If an activity is imported twice, or arrives both from a connection and from your export, it counts once.

Request my history from GarminHow to export from COROSI already have the ZIP: import

What happens when I share a milestone or a film?

A link to the milestone's film is shared, with your name as you have it in Account. The link's page shows the land and the peaks; if the activity comes from Strava, it replays neither its route nor shows its date or figures. The video file, though, is made in your browser and is what you see: it carries the route, date and figures of your activities, and the "Powered by Strava" mark when any of them is from Strava.

How do I import files or my history?

Choose a GPX, FIT or TCX file, or a zip with several files, and we'll look for the peaks you stepped on.

We keep your complete files privately, including their start, finish and any sensor data, until you delete them or your account. This lets us analyse your activities again when peaks, cols or routes are added. Public links still crop the first and last kilometre.

An import is a snapshot: it doesn't update itself. If you connect Garmin Connect or COROS, new activities arrive on their own; otherwise you'll need to import them again.

FIT, GPX or TCX, including gzip and nested history ZIPs. Up to 64 MiB per recording, 2 GiB selected, 4 GiB expanded and 10,000 recordings per selection; ZIP nesting is limited to 3 levels. Account documents are excluded. Large recordings use resumable transfers.

How to export your COROS history

1. Sign in to COROS Training Hub from a computer.
2. Open the “Activity List” tab.
3. Press “Export Data”, on the right.
4. Choose the .FIT format and enter your email: COROS will send the files there.
5. When you receive them, choose them here. If they come in a zip, you can choose it whole.

The steps are the ones COROS explains in its help pages.

How to export your Garmin history

1. Go to the data management page of your Garmin account, in the section for exporting your data.
2. Request the export. Garmin will email you a link to download a zip.
3. The email usually takes a couple of days, and can take up to thirty.
4. When you have the zip, choose it here whole, without unzipping it. The activities are inside other zips, and we open those for you.
5. The CSV list of activities won't do: it is only a summary, without the tracks. You need the ZIP with the recordings.