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First here…happy birthday and enjoy your day…happy trekking
Great review
Ha-ha hope your not addicted, you’ll be doing the El Camino next
Hi Ray,
You decided to go hiking with the FR955 and not with the more mountain-oriented Fenix or Epix. Is it a question of battery, weight and/or functions? Enjoy the hike and happy delayed birthday.
I had a lot of watches on my trip, including the Fenix 7. Functionality speaking, the FR955 is almost identical, with only a handful of very minor differences (e.g. notably coloring on gradients with ClimbPro, or inability to have the zoom levels ‘stick’ after changing).
The FR955 was the one that was set to splice each day up, versus a long activity on the others.
Happy delayed birthday
Great to hear, have fun! The morning report sounds great, esp. the special one on race day. If I ever run a marathon again, I trust it won’t tell me to ‘move’ or complain that I am not active enough on that day either. (Even if that was probably triggered by tapering in the preceeding week)
Happy birthday of course – and thanks for the warning :)
Takes 10 days away from the computer to go for a birthday hike the Tour du Mont Blanc, but still logs, tracks, videos and photographs the whole way. Wonder if you could go away with absolutely no tech?
Obviously we benefit that you can’t, hey that’s why we’re here.
And Happy Birthday again!
Hahaha – I was chatting with Des one night, and compared to the amount of gear I usually bring, he was pretty impressed with how little I brought (for me). In my full post on it, I’ve got some photos/weights showing the normal pack vs the extras I had.
what a great place to stay alone!
Gorgeous!
Being in the camp that I’m smart enough that I don’t need to be reminded of my birthdate I consider this a waste so I went onto the Garmin Connect website to remove the (fake) birthdate that I had in there so this won’t annoy me on . It wouldn’t let me do that unless VO2 max (cycling) was populated. That shouldn’t be a required field if someone isn’t really a cyclist, only occasionally riding for fun.
It’s interesting that the force you to enter one random number to remove another random number.
I like the pic with the cows. Who was more surprised? 🤣 Luckily you have not used a red tent. I assume you traveled with an in Reach device – in case a cow falls on you or something like this…
I’m going to throw it out there that I can’t be the only one with Tactix 7 that feels ultra let down with all the upgrades and rollouts that all thebotger watches are getting. Especially when the now last generation models are receiving the upgrades.
What are you missing? Tactix 7 is getting all the same updates as Fenix 7 / Epix 2 are getting. Tactix isn’t part of the beta program, so you might have to wait a couple months longer than the Forerunner/Fenix/Epix crowd that partakes in the beta program, but you’ll always get all the same updates within a couple months.
Happy birthday!
In fact there’s an older Garmin watch with exactly that feature, just not for us guys. Garmin show the Happy birthday screen in their promo video at 0:34: link to m.youtube.com
However, the confetti throwing muffin is a first :-)
Happy birthday. That’s a trek I’ve wanted to do.
Also, classic DCR [paraphrase]:
“I unplugged for 10 days, and my only online activity was daily Strava updates and 200 Instagram Stories.”
Happy Birthday! Awesome to see they added that as part of the morning report. Looking forward to mine in a few months!
Have you seen you can add your name to the morning report so it’ll say “Good Morning, Issac”? That struck me as another one of those minor details that makes my 955 feel more personal.
Hi Ray,
Do you have an updated eta on when morning report is coming to the Fenix 7? Just curious how long we may have to wait. Thanks.
Really cool trip! Now I want to do the same :-) Any idea when the full post is coming up on the tour du Mont Blanc? Looking forward to it. I was wondering about the camping gear you brought with you, what tent, mattress and sleeping bag did you use?
Belated: Happy Birthday!
Do you have any insight into when the Morning Report will make it to Fenix/Epix now that 9.33 is target code and it wasn’t included there?
Hello,
help community, 955 and f7 are experiencing critical HRM issues with heart strap, see forums. And Garmin doesn’t give a damn about that. Ray helps us!
I was wondering what the digits are on the right of the screen, 25/10 in your case and 7/(9/5) in mine… It’s a birthday present, an upgrade from the 235 for me and I’m finding all the data on the watch face confusing!
Great reports always, such a great source of information.
Merci et bonne journée ☺️
It’s the high-low temperatures for the day. :)