Better Peakbagger

Captures Garmin and Strava into Peakbagger drafts, plus 3D maps, GPX analysis, beta filters, dark mode, and more.

Plan the climb. Log the summit. Share the story. See the mountain before you go. Relive the climb when you're back. Better Peakbagger brings free 3D maps, summit weather, easier ascent logging, and creative report tools right into Peakbagger.com. PLAN YOUR NEXT SUMMIT • See the mountain in free 3D — Explore ridgelines, faces, and basins. Follow saved routes, compare tracks, and discover nearby peaks with synced 2D and 3D views and resizable maps. Switch to 3D whenever you want it; it's off by default. • Put weather in context — Browse up to 16 forecast days and the past 16 completed days. Compare models, explore hourly temperature, rain, snow, and wind in mountain-local time, or choose a nearby map location. These are model estimates; check local mountain forecasts before heading out. • Get a more recent view — Try experimental Sentinel-2 satellite imagery in 2D or 3D. Choose a capture from the last 30 days with its date, estimated coverage, and cloud cover shown. Clouds and gaps may still obscure the terrain. • Explore the light — Plan a dawn start or an evening view with offline Sun and Moon directions, sunrise, sunset, Moon phase, and illumination. Move the time slider to explore the day. Times assume a level horizon and do not account for terrain shadows. • Find the beta you came for — Filter and sort ascents by reports, GPS tracks, links, and trusted climbers. Keep favorites and climbing buddies close, manage climber lists beside their names, and hide or reveal ignored reports. Peak pages also bring weather, snow, fire, smoke, and regional avalanche links within reach. LOG THE CLIMB WITH LESS TYPING • Turn adventures into ascent drafts — Capture your own Garmin Connect or Strava activity with route statistics, a privacy-reduced GPX, and the activity link. Explained Strong and Probable summit matches help you choose which peaks to log. You review every draft and press Save yourself. • Bring your own GPX — Choose a file on Add Ascent to calculate route details, find summits, and prepare a multi-peak trip. Fit large tracks to Peakbagger's point limit and choose whether to keep waypoint names and coordinates. Optionally leave recorded timestamps out of uploads while keeping calculated dates and durations. Your original stays unchanged. • Relive the route — Move through interactive charts and watch the map follow your position. Explore elevation, distance, gain, grades, and multi-day timing. Copy coordinates, style your route, and review flagged segments without changing the saved GPX. • Look back at summit weather — Explore historical ascent-day estimates, even without GPX, with coverage back to 1940 where available. Hover or select a timed route point to follow that hour in the weather charts. • Take the route to your favorite mapping app — Send a saved ascent GPX to Gaia GPS, onX Backcountry, AllTrails, or CalTopo. Review and confirm the import there; the destination's membership and file limits apply. SHARE THE STORY, KEEP THE MEMORIES • Tell the whole story — Write in rich text or GitHub-flavored Markdown with photos, captions, tables, video, and previews. Local autosave and a draft manager help you pick up where you left off. With your own ImgBB key, paste photos into Rich text and upload them when you save, with visible progress. • Show the line with photo topos — Turn a photo into route beta with lines, curves, climbing symbols, and labels. Keep editable projects in a searchable local library, export project bundles, and download finished images or upload them to ImgBB with your own API key. • Keep a copy of your climbing history — Back up one ascent or your full history, reports, and saved GPX files to your own GitHub repository. Enable automatic backup after saves and separate backups for settings, climber lists, and photo recovery. Photo recovery preserves annotations and links; keep project downloads for original images. MAKE PEAKBAGGER FEEL LIKE YOURS Choose dark, light, or system appearance. Mix units—miles and feet with Celsius, for example. Give maps and reports room to breathe, place ascent weather in either column, arrange filters and planning links, and hide cards you don't use. Export your preferences to take your setup to another browser. Install Better Peakbagger, open a peak or ascent, and start exploring. PRIVACY BY DESIGN Free and open source. No Better Peakbagger account, ads, analytics, or telemetry. There is no developer data server. Raw Garmin and Strava GPX is processed on the activity page, and saving an ascent stays in your hands. Weather cards are on by default. As you scroll near a card, Open-Meteo automatically receives location coordinates, elevation when available, and the requested date window. No GPX, account credentials, or ascent identity is sent to the weather service. You can turn weather off in Settings. Map and satellite providers receive requests for the area you view. Backups, photo uploads, and track transfers go to the services you choose when you use or enable those features. Read the complete privacy policy: https://github.com/wilmtang/better-peakbagger/blob/main/PRIVACY.md Better Peakbagger works with Chrome, Edge, Brave, and Firefox. It is an independent, open-source project and is not affiliated with Peakbagger or the services it connects to. Source code: https://github.com/wilmtang/better-peakbagger