In reply to yorkshireman:
> If you choose ski (on my watch anyway but assume on the Strava app) as an activity it disregards the uphills and treats them as lifts, so you just leave it recording all the time you're out. It then only tracks your downhill runs and gives you distance, max and average speed etc.
It's never been entirely obvious to me that it actually does this. When i look at my own strava recordings of previous ski holidays where i've had my strava on my phone set for "alpine skiing" it appears to show climbing sections, etc in the distance and track. I'm not convinced it's been cutting out the ascent portions in daily distance tracks.
All of that said i've recently got a new fangled garmin for my bike which i've uploaded some skiing apps to too which i plan on using on a forthcoming ski hol. Hopefully i'll be able to discern the difference then.
Edit: So i've looked at your strava and you are correct it doesn't count the up hill. However on mine even when set as alpine skiing it definitely does count in the uphill. Must be something deep in the minutia of the settings that does it as just switching activity to alpine skiing definitely doesn't just automatically do it. https://www.strava.com/activities/2227032513
Post edited at 07:43