TrailSeeker Climb Feature User Guide

What is Climbing?

TrailSeeker's Climb feature automatically recognizes uphill sections of your hike, providing detailed information and difficulty ratings for each climb, allowing you to better plan and complete your outdoor challenges.

Core Concepts

Climbs

A climb is a continuous uphill section of a route. The system automatically recognizes sections with a gradient of more than 5% and a certain length as climbs.

Data Definition

Each climb section contains the following key information:

Distance: length of the climb segment (in meters)
Elevation gain: difference in height from the bottom to the top (meters)
Average slope: average incline of the entire climb segment (in percent)
Maximum slope: slope of the steepest part of the climb section (percentage)
Difficulty Score: a FIETS score (0-1000+) that comprehensively assesses the difficulty of the climb

Difficulty Rating System

TrailSeeker uses the internationally recognized FIETS scoring system to classify climbs into 6 difficulty levels:

Grade	Scoring range	Color coding	Characteristics
Easy	0-49	🟢 Green	Beginner friendly, gentle gradient
Medium	50-149	🔵 Blue	Moderately difficult, requires some stamina
Difficulty	150-299	🟠 Orange	Highly challenging, requires good physical fitness
Very difficult	300-499	🔴 Red	Highly challenging, requires experience and stamina
Extreme	500-749	🟣 Purple	Extremely challenging, professional level
Super Group	750+	⚫ Black	Top Difficulty, Elite Challenge

Main functions

1. Route planning phase

View Climb Overview

After importing a GPX route file, the system automatically analyzes and identifies all climbs
View statistics such as total number of climbs, total elevation gain, etc. on the route details page.