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  1. Wilderness Survival, Hiking and Camping Forum
    My current handheld is a Garmin Etrex that dates to around 2000, or 2001. It still works fine, except at the bottom of hills, in creek bottoms, or in dense canopy. I have been thinking about upgrading to a Garmin Etrex 10, but not sure if an upgrade is really needed. A map function would be...
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  2. Wilderness Survival, Hiking and Camping Forum
    Hey everyone, I haven't been around for a while, I've been pretty busy with my senior year in high school. Anyways, I have a Garman eTrex Venture HC, and I have had it for over a year. It works great but recently it has this problem where it turns off after being on for about 10 seconds. No...
  3. Wilderness Survival, Hiking and Camping Forum
    Can someone recommend a cheap, reliable GPS unit I could use for hiking and finding my way around? Dan
  4. Wilderness Survival, Hiking and Camping Forum
    Anyone own a Garmin Etex Summit HC? (new purchase by me) two questions for starters: 1. Map page: there are two map orientations: North up orients the map like a paper map; track up orients the map in the direction of travel. Why two choices? Which is better? 2. compass page...
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