Garmin Epic: A New Way to Capture the Full Story of an Adventure

Garmin Epic is a feature that brings a whole adventure or period of activity together in one place. Instead of looking at individual activities, you can create an “epic” that combines your recorded activities, health data, notes and photos over a set period of time.

The idea is simple: an adventure is more than the activities you record on your Garmin device. An epic captures everything around those activities too. For example, a hiking trip might include:

• The hike itself
• Time spent at the campsite
• How well you slept
• Other activities such as swimming or yoga
• How your body responded to the trip
• Notes and photos from each day

This gives you a more complete picture of the experience, from the start of the journey to the end.

Rather than looking at one day of skiing, for example, Garmin Epic lets you capture the entire ski trip. For a stage race, it can bring all the race stages together so you can see the event as one complete experience rather than a collection of individual bike rides.

Common Ways to Use Garmin Epic

Multiday Hiking

For a hiking trip that lasts several days, you can combine all your activities into one epic. You can:

• Combine multiple hiking days into one epic
• Include other activities, such as swimming or mountain yoga
• See how you slept during the trip
• Track how your body responded throughout the adventure

This makes it easier to understand the trip as a whole, rather than reviewing each day separately.

Training Camps

Garmin Epic can also be useful for athletes attending a training camp. You can:

• Group several days of training into one epic
• See your total training volume across the camp
• Review how your fitness and recovery changed over time

This can provide a clearer view of the overall training load and how your body responded.

Cycling Stage Races

For a stage race, an epic can bring the entire event together. You can:

• View all race stages in one epic
• See how you recovered between stages
• Add notes about the overall race
• Keep separate notes for individual stages
• Collect photos from the entire event in one place

Instead of treating every stage as a separate activity, you can look back at the complete race experience.

Ski Trips

Garmin Epic can also capture an entire ski holiday. You can:

• See totals for a week-long ski trip
• View all your ski runs together on one map
• Add photos and notes throughout the trip
• Review how altitude affected your sleep

This gives you a single record of the entire trip rather than a collection of separate ski activities.

Where Can You See Your Epics?

On Your Garmin Device

Depending on your compatible Garmin device, you can manage and review an epic directly from your watch. You can:

• Start and stop an epic
• View planned epics
• See combined totals and charts while the epic is active
• Review the epic after it has finished

In the Garmin Connect App

Garmin Connect provides a broader view of your epic. You can:

• View combined charts and totals for all included activities
• See all activities on one combined map
• Navigate a course across multiple days while tracking your progress
• Share an epic directly from Garmin Connect

If an activity within an epic is shared using LiveTrack location sharing, followers can be directed to the Garmin Connect page, where they can see the full epic.

What Can You Review in an Epic?

Once an epic has been created, you can review the different parts of your journey in one place. This can include:

• All activities on one map — See where your entire adventure took place.
• Photos — View photos from the overall epic and from individual activities.
• Activity feed — See the activities from the entire epic in one feed.
• Daily notes — Record thoughts, experiences and other details throughout the journey.
• Performance and health reports — Review selected performance and health information across the epic.

Together, these features help turn activity data into a more complete record of the experience.

Technical Details and Limits

There are some limits to how Garmin Epic can be used:

• An epic can last for a maximum of 92 days.
• You can plan epic start dates up to 366 days in advance.
• You can have up to 5 future epics planned at the same time.
• You can enable LiveTrack location sharing for an epic.
• You can review completed epics on a compatible Garmin device.

Why Garmin Epic Matters

Most fitness tracking focuses on individual activities. You might record a hike, a bike ride or a ski session and then move on to the next one.

Garmin Epic takes a different approach. It recognises that some experiences cannot be understood by looking at one activity alone.

A multiday hike is not just a series of hikes. A training camp is more than a collection of workouts. A stage race is more than individual race stages. And a ski holiday is more than a list of ski runs.

By bringing activities, health data, photos and notes together, Garmin Epic helps you see the full story behind the data.

Summary

Garmin Epic gives you a way to capture an entire adventure or period of activity in one place. It combines tracked activities with health information, photos and notes to create a complete record of your experience.

Whether you are hiking for several days, attending a training camp, competing in a stage race or spending a week on the slopes, an epic helps you see the bigger picture. It turns individual activities and data points into a single story that you can review, relive and share.

Further reading

• Garmin Fenix 9 vs Fenix 8: which to buy
• Fenix 9: new features explained
• Fenix 9 features will pass to existing Garmin watches
• Garmin Fenix 9 Pro specifications

Last Updated on 26 August 2026 by the5krunner