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A Rider’s Point of View - Garmin eTrex Venture® Handheld GPS Receiver Pretty nice little gadget. Like I said, there is no way to recharge it, which bothers me. If you use it a lot, you...

eTrex Great for the average outdoors lover. - Garmin eTrex® Handheld GPS Receiver The Garmin eTrex is the best GPS unit you can buy for its price range. Its advantages are numerous including its ...

Must have Toy for under $100

If you are an avid skier, mountain biker, hiker, mountaineer, boater, or you have a tendency to get lost going to the supermarket, this is the gadget for you.

The eTrex is small, light weight, and almost indestructible. Easy to use and very, very fun.

I had the chance to demo this product while vacationing in Sun Valley recently and had a blast with the tracking feature that showed all the ski runs I skied all day. Plus to see all the miles I could do in a day was very cool. The most impressive feature to me is the “Track Back” feature. With this one, it will walk you back through the trail that you have just completed or one that you have saved before. This would be a great feature on a trail at night, or in dense fog. It will literally tell you to turn when it is time.

It is very easy to set marking points called waypoints at your favorite campsite, condo, or to mark where you parked your car. I found it very easy to operate the 4 screens and to set waypoints. The interface takes only minutes to figure out.

With 12 channels for tracking satellites I had no problem with the signal, although I have heard it can be more difficult in thick woods. I also used this in downtown Portland and had no problems in and around the tall buildings. ETrex was able to acquire satellites in about 30 sec. And it was accurate to 12 feet.

This device does not have the capabilities to download maps off the Internet but with some of the great GPS software out there you can down load waypoints or trails and use them to guide you.

I highly recommend this for anybody that wants to know where they are. If you can get it for under $100 it”s a deal.

The best GPS tip - Garmin eTrex® Handheld GPS Receiver I bought the etrex Nov 2000 and have found 1000 uses for this GPS. Right out of the box I had mapped out every bu...

It’s SO yellow! - Garmin eTrex® Handheld GPS Receiver I bought my eTrex to help me with my racing homing pigeon hobby. I wanted a small, inexpensive, accurate GPS rece...

Etrex and suitable software - Garmin eTrex® Handheld GPS Receiver Check out Gartrip from http://www.gartrip.de/ It triples the usability of the Etrex in my humble opinion. With i...

Rugged all-around GPS - Garmin eTrex® Handheld GPS Receiver I bought my eTrex in 2000 and it is still going strong. The built-in features give you good navigation tools with ...

Garmin Etrex Venture. - Garmin eTrex Venture® Handheld GPS Receiver Great beginners unit. For alittle more than the basic "yellow" Etrex. This unit is a steal. I purchased mine for l...

INCREDIBLE TECHNOLOGY - Garmin eTrex Legend® Handheld GPS Receiver Until I got this unit I had owned a Magellan. It was a second generation generic GPS. At the time it was a pret...

A GPS that works…sort of - Garmin eTrex® Handheld GPS Receiver

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