Guides & knowledge

How to get a route onto your watch, how long a hike really takes, what T3 means. Each page answers its question in full — even where the answer does not need Peakflow.

• Send a GPX route to your Garmin watch — no cable, no subscription
  Get a route onto your Garmin watch over the air with Peakflow — via Connect IQ, no cable and no premium subscription. Four steps.
• Hiking time: how long does this walk really take?
  How long will a hike take? The SAC and DIN formulas explained with a worked example — plus a planner that accounts for gradient, surface and breaks.
• The SAC hiking scale: T1 to T6 explained
  What does T3 mean? The Swiss Alpine Club hiking scale from T1 to T6 with examples, the gear you need, and how to see where a route gets hard.
• Offline hiking map: navigate without a signal
  Take map and route offline: how to store a region in Peakflow and navigate with no reception — free, no subscription.
• Plan a loop: come back a different way
  A loop instead of an out-and-back: how to plan a circular route in Peakflow, with walking time, elevation profile and huts on the way.
• Open and view a GPX file — in the browser, no account
  View a GPX file, check the elevation profile, send it to your watch: works in Peakflow straight in the browser, without an account or subscription.
• Hiking without a car: plan walks around bus and train
  Traverses instead of loops: Peakflow plans Alpine hikes with bus and train, including the return journey, connections and the last bus of the day.
• Create and read an elevation profile
  Create the elevation profile of a hike or ride: gradient per section, steepest point, total ascent — free in Peakflow.
• Old snowfields: the underrated danger of early summer
  Where is there still snow in June? Peakflow shows old snowfields from satellite imagery directly on your route and warns before you set off.
• Hiking with children: finding routes that actually work
  Which route works with children? Judge distance, gradient, surface and huts properly — and find paths a pushchair can handle.
• Planning a ski tour: slope angle, avalanche bulletin, timing
  Plan ski tours with a slope-angle layer, the official avalanche bulletin, wildlife zones and ascent times at skinning pace — free in Peakflow.

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