Surely these boys are riding chairlifts or shuttling and leaving the old GPS running
Strava (the company) frustrates the hell out of me. It has so much user data at its disposal, but seems uninterested in trying to exploit it for the benefit of users. It was comparatively amazing when it first came out, but it’s just seemed to stagnate for years now.
There’s a Strava-equivalent (iOS-only) app for skiing and snowboarding called Tracks
https://getslopes.com/which automatically recognises chairlift rides and adjusts ride stats accordingly.
The app is the work of just one (exceptional) developer, and can’t have anything like the user base of Strava. But he seems to manage to incorporate and exploit Apple’s APIs – “Hey Siri, start Slopes” – with little fuss, and yet Strava can’t even offer its users a way to distinguish between MTB and road rides, or let Premium users see average ride speed on their iPhone (like non-paying users can).