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4.5 stars
"Buy Top-Of-The-Line Magellan eXplorist 600"
Pros: Magellan: Big Color Screen, Excellent Tracking
Cons: Garmin: Cannot Read in Dark, Poor Tracking in Forest
Summary: I bought a Garmin eTrex for wilderness hiking navigation. Big mistake. During the first year, the springs in the battery compartment broke because they are badly engineered. Garmin customer support refused to solve my problem. I soldered the springs together several times.
Subsequently, I was hiking down from the summit of Mount Harvard in a rainstorm. My Garmin eTrex became a rain guage. Garmin charged me $120 to replace the water-logged unit. The first hike with the replacement unit indicated that I hiked to 24,800 feet, an impossibility unless I had oxygen tanks and floated on 10,000 feet of air.
Garmin cannot be read in the dark, which is the only time when I have been close to being lost on a hike near Mirror Lake in the Eagles Nest Wilderness Area. Garmin eTrex did not track satellites in lodgepole forest. This year, I bought the Magellan eXplorist XL 600 and MapSend Topo 3D. Magellan is the GPS that I should have purchased the first time around. I can easily read the large letters on the large color screen, even in the dark. The construction is far more solid than the Garmin and has double the battery capacity, which enables me to hike multiple days without GPS failures. Magellan never loses satellites in dense forest. Fantastic tracking ability.
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Good review, but I would have liked to have read about the Magellan eXplorist 300.
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Magellan eXplorist 300 - GPS receiver:
$249.97
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