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Chart-synced routes
Read the whole day at a glance.
Distance and time views, route metrics, grades, timing, and multi-day details. Hover the chart; follow the exact same point on the map.
Free & open source Browser extension
Log less.
Summit more.
Your familiar Peakbagger, with better tools. Turn activities into ascent drafts, explore routes in 3D, and give your trip reports room to breathe.
No extra accountNo telemetryYou control Save
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The extension
Your summit log, upgraded
Peakbagger knows the mountains.
Better Peakbagger smooths the climb.
Turn activities you own into evidence-backed ascent drafts. Read a track at a glance. Find the reports worth reading. Write like a human instead of a markup parser.
The extension handles the repetitive work, then stops before the decision that matters: Save.
From track to summit record
From activity to ascent.
With you in control.
Open an activity you own on Garmin Connect or Strava. Better Peakbagger finds likely summit encounters, shows the evidence, and prepares only the drafts you choose.
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Open your activity
A toolbar click grants temporary access to the one Garmin or Strava activity already open in your browser.
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Inspect the evidence
Strong and Probable labels summarize route proximity, elevation, summit shape, and track quality.
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Review, then save
Selected summits open as prefilled Peakbagger drafts. Correct anything you want; the final save stays manual.
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Open 3D terrain
The map should feel like the mountain
See every climb
from a higher angle.
Turn Peakbagger’s GPX maps into true-scale 3D terrain. Keep the basemap you know, drape it over open elevation data, and watch the route rise off the page.
How the 3D map worksMaps you already use. Compatible CalTopo, ArcGIS, OpenTopoMap, and other layers can be draped over the terrain.
Open elevation data. Powered by Mapterhorn’s free, global elevation tiles.
Opt in, always. No 3D tile request happens until you enable the feature.
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Everyday tools
The details that make
a better day on Peakbagger.
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Trip reports
Write stories, not bracket tags.
Switch between rich text, GitHub-flavored Markdown with live preview, or Peakbagger’s untouched native textarea. Rich and Markdown drafts recover locally.
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Useful beta, faster
Find the trip reports that matter.
Stack report, GPS, link, and favorite-climber filters. Get live counts and sortable columns without another page load.
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Dark mode + settings
Easy on the eyes. Dialed to your route.
Follow the system or stay light or dark. Tune units, chart defaults, route colors, map size, editor mode, 3D cache, and what “has beta” means to you.
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Your ascents.
GitHub backup
Your ascents.
Your repository.
Back up reports as real Markdown, form data as JSON, and Peakbagger’s saved track to a private GitHub repository you control.
⌄ mt-rainier-2026-07-12
├ trip-report.md
├ ascent.json
└ track.gpx
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Summit conditions
Weather and imagery, centered where it counts.
Jump from a peak directly to Windy, Copernicus satellite imagery, and—where available—snow depth or fire and smoke maps.
- Weather
- Satellite imagery
- Snow & smoke
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Privacy by design
Local by default. Optional by choice.
Your route is not the product.
Raw Garmin or Strava GPX is processed on the activity page and is never stored or sent to the extension developer. Optional features stay off until you choose them.
Read the complete privacy contract0extra accounts
0analytics
0telemetry
0developer data servers
“Do the repetitive work.
Stop before Save.”
Summit matching is evidence, not certainty—and an ascent log is your record. Strong matches are selected by default. Probable matches remain opt-in. You review both.
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Common questions
A few things
to know.
Better Peakbagger is an independent passion project, not an official Peakbagger extension.
Why doesn’t it update Peakbagger automatically?+
Garmin and Strava do not offer a practical free, unattended integration for a small independent extension. Better Peakbagger instead works through the provider page you already opened and signed in to, with temporary access to that one activity.
Can it capture any Garmin or Strava activity?+
No. You must be signed in, the activity must belong to your account, and the page must provide unambiguous ownership signals. The extension fails closed when it cannot verify them.
What if I only have a GPX file?+
Upload it on Peakbagger’s Add Ascent form. A Process button reads it on-page, finds summits along the route, fills useful fields, and prepares a privacy-reduced track for GPS Preview.
Does 3D mapping send my track somewhere?+
The 3D view requests map and elevation tiles only after you explicitly enable it. The feature is rendered in your browser and is covered in detail by the project’s public privacy contract.
Is it open source?+
Yes. Better Peakbagger is licensed AGPL-3.0-or-later. The source, architecture notes, issue tracker, and discussion board are all public on GitHub.
The next summit is enough work
Make the logging part easy.
Free. Open source. Available for Chrome, Edge, Brave, and Firefox.