Garmin Connect IQ · watch app

The mountain, on your wrist, and a ski day it never forgets.

Live snow conditions, a 5‑day forecast, and safety guidance for right now. Then press start and EM‑Snow records a real alpine‑ski activity, counting your runs while you just ski.

For Garmin fenix 6X Pro, fenix 7 and venu 2. Works with the EM‑Snow web app at snow.0‑21.co.uk.

New in EM‑Snow

Records the day the way you actually ski it.

Most watches make you tap start at the top of every run and stop at every lift. EM‑Snow doesn’t. It records one continuous FIT activity and works out the rest for itself: skiing, riding the lift, or standing at the bar, so the file that lands in Garmin Connect is honest without you touching a button.

Automatic lift detection

A run counter that knows what a run is.

Once a second, EM‑Snow reads barometric altitude, speed and heading over a rolling window and classifies what you’re doing. Straight climb at speed? That’s a lift. Losing height fast? That’s a run, and a new one is added to your lap list automatically.

RUN
Dropping height, moving. Counts as a descent and a lap.
LIFT
Climbing straight and steady. The tell‑tale of a chairlift.
IDLE
Stopped. The queue, the view, the vin chaud.
TRAVERSE
Everything in between. The cat‑track home.
Three clocks, always both answers

Never pause the session.

Ski time, lift time and idle time run in parallel the whole day. Want a friend’s honest total or a hard‑charging “moving only” number? Both are already in the data. No decision to make on the hill.

3:12Ski time
1:04Lift time
0:38Idle
Per‑run flow score

How smooth was that run, really?

EM‑Snow finds your turns from the heading trace and scores each run 0–100 on rhythm and consistency. Even turns and steady speed score high, stop‑go and skidding score low. A number you can actually chase, run after run.

Haptic language

Your wrist taps you through a whiteout.

GET ME DOWN speaks through vibration so you never have to look down, even with gloves on or in zero visibility. One long buzz: turn right. Two short pulses: turn left. A soft tick: carry on straight. A rising triple: you’re there. Every completed run ends with a buzz; a high-flow run earns a longer celebratory note.

•—
One long buzz: turn right.
••
Two short: turn left.
·
Soft tick: straight on.
↑↑↑
Rising triple: arrived.
Conditions, saved forever

The snow report gets written into the activity.

When you save, the day’s conditions are baked into the FIT file as custom fields, so years from now Garmin Connect still shows exactly what the mountain was like the day you skied it.

ResortBase & summit depth24h new snow Piste conditionWeatherMid‑mountain temp Runs · vertSki / lift / idle timeAvg flow
Before you drop in

Everything you need to read the mountain.

Open EM‑Snow and the whole picture is there in a glance, pulled live from the EM‑Snow backend, cached on the watch so it’s there even when signal isn’t.

142cm
Summit base depth
18cm
New in 24h
31/42
Lifts open
3 Considerable
Avalanche level

Now & 5‑day forecast

Base and summit depth, 24 and 72‑hour snowfall, piste condition, freezing level and a five‑day strip: the morning briefing without the phone.

What to ski

The forecast scored into a suggestion for today, or tomorrow’s plan tonight, so you know which aspect will be good and when it opens.

GET ME DOWN

Caught out by weather? Hold start for offline safety guidance to get off the mountain. Avalanche level front and centre, phone in the pocket.

Ski‑party tracking

Share a six‑character code with your group and see where everyone is on the hill, then let the guide route the rest of the party to them, up the lifts and all.

Send day to phone

Finished up? EM‑Snow paints a QR code on the watch that hands the day straight to the web app for a full 3D flyby. No cables, no fiddling.

On‑watch resort picker

Change resort right on the wrist: nearest resorts by GPS, your recents, or automatic. No more digging through phone settings mid‑trip.

And the bigger screen

The EM‑Snow web app.

The same live backend, opened up. A resort dashboard for planning the trip, powder alerts that ping when it dumps, and a 3D flyby that replays the day EM‑Snow just recorded on your wrist.

  • Resort dashboard & snow reports · conditions, forecast, avalanche bulletin and history for nearly 5,000 resorts, now browsable by country, including over 50 across Japan, South Korea and the Andes, from Niseko and Hakuba Valley to Yongpyong, Cerro Catedral and Valle Nevado, readable as a story or a full stats sheet, your pick.
  • Live lift status, hours and queues · lift-by-lift open and closed with operating hours straight from the resort, including the whole Alpe d’Huez Grand Domaine, plus wait and queue times where operators publish them. Named runs come graded by difficulty, with freshly groomed runs flagged where resorts report it.
  • Safety on every resort page · one tap to the country’s emergency number, a Where am I readout that gives rescue your piste and coordinates, the nearest marked rescue points and SOS phones as navigation destinations, and the Piste X Code slope safety rules.
  • 🍽️Eat on the mountain · every restaurant, cafe and hut on the piste network, with opening hours where mapped and live open or closed where the resort reports it. Lunch sorted before you are on the first lift.
  • EM Piste Pilot · never puzzle over a piste map again. Pick a run, a lift or a restaurant and get guided there turn by turn, automatically routed around any run or lift the operator has closed. One‑tap community closure reports and an honest per‑resort coverage grade back it up, with a live compass arrow to keep you oriented. If the clouds come down, one tap takes you to the base, and closure awareness keeps working offline for 24 hours once it has met a resort.
  • 👥Ski Party · share a six‑letter code and everyone in the group sees each other live on the mountain. No accounts, and the code expires overnight.
  • Powder push alerts · pick your resorts and get a notification the moment fresh snow lands.
  • 3D flyby with ghosts & leaderboards · replay your ski day in 3D, race the resort’s record holder, top the per‑piste speed boards.
  • Day planner · tonight’s forecast scored into tomorrow’s run‑by‑run itinerary, then flown as a preview.
  • Webcams worldwide · live resort cams on every dashboard, now with global coverage.
  • 🔗Link your devices · one code ties phone, browser and watch together: favourites, unlocks and history everywhere. Linked browsers self‑heal, so favourites survive even when Safari clears site storage. snow.0‑21.co.uk/pair
  • Free GPX tool · drop any ski GPX at snow.0‑21.co.uk/gpx and get it back with slope angles, piste names and that day’s weather. Runs in your browser, nothing uploads.
  • 🧩Snow widget for your website · run a chalet or ski school site? One line of code shows a live card for your resort: snow depth, fresh totals, lifts open and powder chance, free. A £39 season licence removes the branding and adds a keyed JSON feed. Get the widget
  • EM‑Snow Pro · powder alerts on your wrist, one purchase for the whole household, and your season wrapped when the lifts close. £14.99 a season or £24.99 for life. Get Pro
Compatibility

Built for the watches skiers wear.

EM‑Snow is a full Connect IQ watch app, launched from the app list or glance carousel, with a background service that keeps conditions fresh every hour.

fenix 6X ProConnect IQ 3.3+
fenix 7Connect IQ 4 super‑app + glance
venu 2AMOLED, glance carousel

More devices as EM‑Snow rolls out. The activity recording needs a barometric altimeter, standard on all three watches above.

New · iPhone beta

EM‑Snow in your pocket.

The full EM‑Snow experience, now on iPhone. Phone in your pocket, screen off, recording all day: runs, lifts, vertical, top speed and flow score captured automatically, and your speed stays private to you.

iOS beta via TestFlight: tap the button, install, and you’re riding in minutes. The Apple Watch app comes with it automatically. Beta places are limited, so if the link says the beta is full, email [email protected]. Coming soon: Android · Connect IQ store listing for the watch apps.

Desktop · macOS & Windows · beta

EM‑Snow Studio.

Burns your full ski day: telemetry overlay, mini‑map, live weather, into your footage, faster than realtime. Bring your own GoPro clips and watch tracks; Studio does the rest.

In field validation. Beta access by email. Free tier: watermarked 60‑second clips. Pro: unlimited clean exports.

Get on the snow

Read the mountain. Ski it. Keep it forever.

EM‑Snow gives you the conditions before you drop in, the safety net if it turns, and a ski file worth looking back on, all from the watch already on your wrist.