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Going live and ending a trip

Nothing to press. Your tracker puts the trip live, and the trip ends by itself.

Publish your trip (on the trip’s page, Publish my trip) and send your livedot link to the people at home. After that there’s nothing to press.

Going live

You go live the moment your tracker sends its first position, from an hour before a leg starts. On a leg with a route, the position must be within 25 km of that leg’s line, so a test at home never starts a trip by mistake. On a leg with no route, anywhere counts.

Your dates are a plan, not a deadline. If you’re still on leg 1 when the dates say leg 3, we follow your dot, not the plan. The trip stays live past its end date for as long as your tracker keeps sending.

If your tracker goes quiet for 12 hours, that stretch of the line ends. The next position starts the next one, and followers see the whole line.

Ending

Your trip ends by itself at the first of these:

• You arrive. Your dot reaches the last leg’s finish and stays there for 6 hours.
• Your Garmin activity ends. With Garmin LiveTrack, the activity on your last leg finishes, on or after that leg’s planned day, and nothing more comes in for 24 hours.
• Seven quiet days. No position for 7 days, counted from the last one. An inReach or a SPOT never says you’ve stopped, so for them this, or arriving, is what ends it. A storm or a few days in a tent never ends a trip.

The planned end date never ends a trip while your tracker is still sending.

When it ends, we email you once: what ended it, and a Put it back live button in case we got it wrong. The button works for 30 days. Followers see where it finished.