I pretty much have a never-ending supply of EZ-1000’s so I brought one skiing with my 2 boys on a recent trip.
Jack, my older son, is old enough to go skiing (boarding, he would correct me) without me. Actually, he has officially passed me by — he does black runs I refuse to do (small on a board is way better than big on skis when it comes to moguls).
I wanted to know where he was at one point so I ran a quick mobile map on my iPhone & put it in “compass mode” so I could see what direction he was from me.
Here it is (I’m the blue dot, Jack is the red pin):
GPS Insight EZ-1000 tracks my snowboarding son on the mountain
Here he really was (my eyes are better than the 3 megapixel camera on the iPhone…) — note that he’s between the lift & the ski patrol “house” just like the map shows it:
GPS Insight EZ-1000 tracks my snowboarding son on the mountain
I ran a 3D history of that device for the 2 days I remembered to bring it and put it in Jack’s pocket & it puts him exactly where my iPhone shows him at 1:44 (note the time in the first screen shot). Waiting 4 minutes at the bottom of the hill for his 2 friends:
Showing skiing activity using an EZ-1000 from GPS Insight
Also interesting is the straight lines which depict the lifts very clearly. The main lifts are in the “clutter” of dots on the left side, but the lifts we went on once each are really easy to spot toward the top right.
It’s easy to see which runs got the most use by turning off the “time slider” and looking at just the blue path:
GPS Tracking my son on the ski (board) slopes
Here are my two boarders:
Jack & Ryan on a snowboarding trip
And by looking at the GPS track as well as how well he was jumping and grinding, I can tell Jack went through the terrain park most of all:
Jack grinding/jumping off a box in the terrain park
I’ll try embedding a Facebook video I have of him going through the terrain park here:
Rob.