# Track a walk

> What the Walk screen shows while you walk, and what happens when you stop, wander or lose the app.

The Walk tab counts your climb from the moment you tap start until you end the walk. It doesn't need a signal to track: only planning uses the internet.

## Start

- With a planned route, the Walk tab shows it under **Planned**. Tap **Start walk**.
- Without one, tap **Start free walk**. It tracks the same way, with no target.

The first time, your iPhone asks for location access. Choose **Allow While Using App**. Summit keeps recording with the screen off and the phone in your pocket, and you'll see the blue location indicator while it does. It also asks for Motion & Fitness access, which it needs to read the barometer.

## The Walk screen

- **The big number** is how much you've climbed. On a planned walk, **of 500 ft** sits beside it with a progress line marked at halfway and at your target.
- **Time**, **Distance**, **To go** and **Pace** sit underneath.
- **The map** draws the planned route in pencil and your actual path in ink over it.

At halfway and at your target, the phone buzzes if Summit is on screen, and Summit posts a notification either way. Those notifications arrive quietly in Notification Center at first. To get them on the lock screen with a sound, swipe left on one, tap **Options** and choose to show them prominently, or turn on alerts under **Settings → Notifications → Summit**.

## Stopping and wandering

- **Stop for more than 90 seconds** and the walk auto-pauses. The clock stops, and the screen says **Auto-paused. Start moving and the clock resumes.** Just walk on.
- **Leave the planned route** and the screen says **Off the planned route. Still counting.** Every foot still counts. Summit never makes you go back.
- **No barometer** on your phone means Summit measures height with GPS, and the screen says so. See [How climb is counted](/how-climb-is-counted).

## End the walk

Tap **End walk** and confirm. You'll see the walk card with your climb, route and progress on your peak. Tap **Save walk** to bank it. You can share the card before or after you save. See [Share a walk card](/walk-card).

## If location is off

If Summit doesn't have location access, the Walk screen says **Location is off for Summit, so distance and your route aren't recording.** Tap **Turn it on in Settings** and choose **While Using the App**.

## If the app closes mid-walk

Summit saves your walk every few seconds. If your iPhone closes the app, or you swipe it away, open Summit again and the Walk tab shows **Unfinished walk** with what you'd recorded so far.

- **Resume** picks the walk back up. The time you were away counts as paused.
- **Save as is** banks the walk as it stands. If you'd already ended it, this reads **Save walk**.
- **Discard** throws it away after you confirm.

## Your log

Saved walks appear under **Log** on the Walk tab, with your all-time climb. Tap one to see its card again. To delete it, tap the **⋯** button, then **Delete walk**. Its climb comes off your peak too.