Hiking in the woods is a great way to spend time and get exercise. With the expanding sizes of cities it is often a good idea to go out and experience some of nature. One concern people often express is that they can get turned around easily, but with a GPS you can avoid this problem. GPS devices also help you to enjoy your hiking experience more, whether you are a beginner or a professional. Garmin provides a broad range of models that are useful for the many different types of hiking users and hiking uses.
A budget friendly option, coming in around one hundred dollars, is the Garmin eTrex HC. It provides a wide array of features and can be used by the amateur and the professional. The sensitivity is very strong and gets great satellite signals even in dense tree cover. This is one of the main improvements over the basic eTrex model that Garmin had been producing. The eTrex HC is lightweight and waterproof, and it can store up to five hundred waypoints and save ten track logs. Five buttons are located on the side of the device so that it can be easily used in one hand.
The Garmin 60CSx is a higher-end model with more features. It is lightweight and comes with a 2.6 inch TFT display, which is easy to see in sunlight. It has a directional compass that works whether you are standing still or moving and a barometric altimeter to help you figure out directions to take. It also allows you to store up to twenty different tracks and can store 10,000 points total with a maximum of five hundred points per track. The Garmin 60CSx keeps track of your movement and it can tell you how fast you are going, your moving average, your maximum speed, and the amount of time you spent stopped.
