Garmin eTrex Venture Cx Waterproof Hiking GPS (Yellow)

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Price: $280.00    

Product Feature

• Integrated trip computer provides odometer, stopped time, moving average, overall average, total time, max speed and more
• 10,000 point automatic track log; 20 saved tracks (500 points each) let you retrace your path in both directions
• Preloaded with an Americas Recreational Routable Basemap
• 32-hour battery life (using two AA batteries)
• Bright, full-color TFT display

Product Description

The new eTrex Venture Cx is identical to the eTrex Legend Cx in both hardware and software design. The Venture Cx does not include a microSD card, MapSource� Trip and Waypoint Manager CD, PC/USB interface cable or bike clip. The product is recommended for use with Garmin preprogrammed microSD cards. Garmin preprogrammed microSD cards can be purchased to provide detail for Garmin� �s TOPO, BlueChart, and European street mapping. See the Garmin Web site for current listings.

Garmin eTrex Venture Cx Waterproof Hiking GPS (Yellow) Review

I drove my wife crazy spending several weeks worth of nights researching which GPS to buy for my upcoming elk hunting trip in Colorado. After reading several reviews on Amazon about Magellan and Garmin, I decided to focus on Garmin, especially after my old Magellan stopped locking on.

The price of the Venture Cx immediately jumped out at me. As did one of the Amazon reviews about buying the Venture instead of the Legend Cx. So I started comparing features of the various units on Garmin's website. Should I go with the Legend or Vista or Venture, or spend another $200+ on a top of the line GPSMap 60CSx? I soon realized the Venture Cx had ALL of the features of the 60CSx except an altimter, compass and the new top of the line SIRF II chipset/receiver. So I figured I would buy the Venture Cx and try it out hunting in the dark timber and deep canyons of the West Elk Wilderness, and if I kept losing the signal I would return it and upgrade to the expensive 60CSx.

Well, needless to say, I am back from my week long hunt and was blown away that the unit never lost a signal in the deepest of dark timber, and I mean deep! Sometimes it would jump around a bit as you walked, but it always corrected itself in a second or two and never lost the signal. Before I left I bought a 512MB micro SD card for $15, the US Topo for $75 from Amazon, loaded the maps for the area I would be hunting, and I always knew where I was and even what road I was quading on. My other friends all had GPS's but not the mapping kind. They were also blown away by the mapping accuracy and how quickly the unit would start up and acquire a position, even in the dark forest. I kept the unit on most of the time as I hunted so it would leave my track in case I wanted to back track, and I still have 2 of 3 bars on my rechargeable NiHM batteries after 7 days.

So, bottom line, if you want an incredibly feature rich, mapping GPS, don't waste your money on the more expensive Legend or Vista Cx, nor the top of the line GPS Map60 CSx. Go with the bright easy to find yellow Venture Cx, buy your own USB cable (or use the one that came with your digital camera like I did) and buy a higher capacity Micro SD card (the Legend Cx only comes with 64MB), buy the US Topo from Amazon and you are rockin and rollin for geocaching, hunting/hiking in deep dark timber, and turn by turn navigating around your home city and the USA.

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