HiiKER reads your recorded track and works out which summits you passed over. You never mark anything yourself.
Matching runs when you save the hike, so bagged peaks appear in the hike’s summary and on My Peaks a moment after you finish.
How close you need to get
- Within about 75 m of the summit point — it counts.
- 75 m to 150 m — it counts if your recorded altitude is close to the summit height, or you spent a couple of minutes inside that radius.
- Small, low tops are stricter, around 50 m. On a broad flat shoulder the difference between being on it and near it is real.
- Beyond 250 m — never counted.
There’s also a speed check. If you were moving faster than about 12 km/h through the area, you were in a vehicle, and it doesn’t count.
Which recordings count
All of them. Recorded in HiiKER, synced from a Garmin, or imported as a GPX — they all go through the same matching. If the track is in your account, the summits on it are counted.
That includes walks from before the feature existed. Recordings already saved to your account are matched too. If a summit you walked over isn’t showing, see I climbed a peak but it didn’t count.
Walking a peak twice
The second visit is recorded as another ascent of the same peak. Your totals don’t double-count it.
