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Strava Rolls Out New Features and Functionality for Winter Sports

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Strava’s winter update is here, and it makes skiing and snowboarding on the platform feel more accurate and genuinely useful just as the season begins. With more than 180 million users, the app has become a hub for active people year-round, and the latest upgrades give skiers and riders clearer data, easier planning tools, and a full run-by-run breakdown of […]

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Avatar photo Brent Glogau | November 20, 2025
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Strava Drops Lawsuit Against Garmin After 3 Weeks

It was possible that the case of Strava versus Garmin could have taken years to resolve; but it only took three weeks. San Francisco-based Strava has one of the biggest fitness apps on the market and has over 150 million users. Garmin, a Kansas-based corporation, is the maker of the worlds’s leading fitness watches, which are known for their long […]

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Strava Now Syncs With Oakley Meta AI Glasses, Bringing Performance Data to the Slopes

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For skiers and snowboarders, tracking performance has become just as much a part of the adventure as chasing powder. Now, Strava, the world’s largest community for athletes with more than 150 million users, has teamed up with Oakley and Meta to bring performance metrics directly into your ride through the new Oakley Meta Vanguard Performance AI glasses. The integration lets […]

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Avatar photo Brent Glogau | September 19, 2025
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Strava Launches Powerful New 3D Mapping Engine, Adds Avalanche and Terrain Layers

Strava has unveiled a major mapping upgrade, introducing lifelike 3D terrain and winter-specific layers to its app. The new tools are powered by Strava’s own Map Rendering Engine (MRE), marking a significant shift away from third-party providers and incorporating technology from FATMAP, an outdoor adventure platform Strava acquired in 2022. This release adds several advanced features aimed at helping athletes […]

Martin Kuprianowicz | March 18, 2025
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Tracking your Winter Sports Activity is Becoming Increasingly Popular

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Year-end reviews are a fun way to look back at the year. People reflect on their personal year, employers conduct reviews of their employees, and brands are starting to share what was most relevant across their verticals — Google’s Year in Search, Spotify’s Wrapped — to share connections they had with their customers and trends. Strava, the social media platform for […]

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Samantha Gates | February 5, 2024
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FATMAP Partners with Strava for The Ultimate Backcountry Experience

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On Monday, Strava, the subscription platform at the center of connected fitness, announced the acquisition of FATMAP, a mobile app for discovering, planning, navigating, and memorializing outdoor adventures. The acquisition will give Strava subscribers access to the full FATMAP offering. FATMAP is a 3D mapping and outdoor navigation company used heavily in the backcountry. I love FATMAP, it has all […]

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Luke Guilford | January 25, 2023
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Strava Saw an Increase in Skiing by 379%

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Strava, the American social fitness platform founded in 2009 by Michael Horvath and Mark Gainey, released data from their platform for 2022. Their data showed some interesting trends, such as an increased number of people commuting to work by bike. It also showed this year’s fastest-growing sports. Unsurprisingly, the list features those sports closed to many during lockdowns, like skiing and […]

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Julia Schneemann | December 23, 2022
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Endurance Athlete Superstar Kilian Jornet Becomes the New “Strava King” With Record Kudos

Kilian Jornet is an endurance athlete superstar. The Spaniard has won many of the most prestigious ultramarathons as well as having numerous fastest known time records. They include the ascent and descent of major mountains like the Matterhorn and Mont Blanc. Now, he can add a new title to his name: “Strava king.” Just last month, Jornet set a new […]

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Avatar photo Brent Glogau | September 2, 2022
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Social Fitness App Strava Announces New Integration for Seamlessly Tracking Your Day on the Slopes

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Strava announced Monday its latest integration to help users track even more activities. The popular social fitness app has partnered with the great iOS app Slopes to bring seamless ski and snowboard tracking to Strava users reports 9to5 Mac. The news was announced in a press release: Strava, the social network for athletes, announces its integration with Slopes, the top […]

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How Many Miles Would You Run/Hike for a Free Jackson Hole, WY Season Pass?

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Season pass prices are going up and up, so anyway there is to bring that price down, or even score one for free, we’re all ears. If Jackson Hole, WY is your mountain, and you’ve yet to buy your pass, then how about logging miles to win one. The Jackson Hole Mountain Resort and Teton Village Sports just announced a new hiking […]

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Avatar photo SnowBrains | July 12, 2018
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