Support & FAQ.

Summit Tracker is a peak-bagging analytics platform for Strava athletes. It connects to your Strava account via OAuth and automatically tracks when your activities reach mountain summits — logging completions, computing intensity, and updating community leaderboards. We also enrich your Strava activity description with a summary of your achievement.

Summit Tracker is currently invite-only. Once approved, you simply click Connect with Strava. No mobile app download is required — everything happens via webhook automation in the background.

When you upload a run, hike, or walk to Strava, Summit Tracker receives a background webhook notification. We immediately scan your GPS track for summit completions. If a summit is confirmed, we append a sleek, customizable summary to your Strava activity description and update your personal dashboard.

We detect any and all named peaks globally. You are not limited to a pre-defined local list. Our scanning engine combines a high-fidelity local cache with a global registry of over 180,000 summits. Even if a peak is being tagged for the first time by our community, our engine automatically verifies its location and elevation data in real-time.

To prevent GPS drift/jitter from triggering false positives, we apply an SMA-2 (Simple Moving Average) smoothing algorithm with a strict climb threshold. You must actually ascend the mountain to trigger a summit — driving past it won't count.

Only foot-based efforts are currently tracked: Run, Hike, and Walk. Cycling and motorized activities are excluded to maintain leaderboard integrity. Private activities are supported and tracked for your personal stats, but they remain hidden from public leaderboards.

We append a single, clean line of data to your activity description. It looks something like this:
🏔️ Mission Peak #12 (YTD: 2) | 🧗 Hurt Index 4.2 | summittracker.net
You can customize exactly which modules (Hurt Index, Stats, SOTA, Gritty Titles) are included via your Preferences page, complete with a live preview.

Gritty Titles are an experimental feature that uses Advanced AI Synthesis to rename your Strava activities based on the "Hurt" and "Grit" of the effort. Instead of a standard name, it might generate HI 12.4 // Settling 814m of Vertical Debt. Every title is structurally unique, drawing from your exact elevation gain, moving time, and intensity to create a one-of-a-kind narrative for your feed.

No. We safely append our metadata to the very bottom of any description you've already written.

The total elevation gain accumulated by all Summit Tracker members across all tracked summits. It represents the combined vertical effort of the whole community over all time.

The Peak Registry is the official record of every peak discovered by our community. It organizes all discovered peaks into three elevation-based categories (Low: <1000m, Medium: 1000-1500m, High: >1500m) for easy browsing. Each peak card shows the pioneer who first tagged it, along with the discovery date. Use the category tabs to explore peaks by elevation range as the registry grows.

A Pioneer is the first athlete to successfully log a verified summit of a specific peak in the Summit Tracker system. Pioneers are permanently recorded in the Registry with their name and discovery date.

The Wall of Hurt is a 30-day rolling leaderboard ranked by the Hurt Index (v3)—a performance-aware metric. Unlike static difficulty scores, V3 rewards Vertical Velocity (VAM). This means a 1-hour "sprint" up a mountain will score significantly higher than a 2-hour hike of the same peak. It is a measurement of pure "Grit" and intensity.

An Ascent Streak tracks consecutive weeks in which you have completed at least one tracked summit. If you miss a week, your streak resets to 1. Streaks of 2 weeks or more are displayed in your Strava activity descriptions if you have enabled the 🔥 Ascent Streak option in your Preferences.

Your profile dynamically tracks your climbing history to award specialized achievement badges. There are 34 unique badges across 9 categories: Summit Milestones (100+ to 1,000+ summits), Vertical Mastery (50k to 300k meters), Peak Count (25 to 100 unique peaks), Seasonal (Spring Warrior, Summer Beast, Fall Crusader, Winter Warrior), Speed (Speed Demon variants), Consistency (streaks), Community (trendsetter), and Challenges (multi-peak days, high-elevation activities). Your profile displays only earned badges for a clean, achievement-focused view with a counter showing your progress (e.g., "12/34 Unlocked").

Head to your Profile. Changing units immediately updates your past and future dashboard stats, as well as the format used in your Strava description updates.

You can revoke Summit Tracker's access anytime from your Strava App Settings ↗. This stops all background webhook processing immediately.