Garmin eTrex Legend

Advantages: Great coverage with pretty close readings
Disadvantages: Large trees keep from allowing great coverage and monitor is not in color

I've owned this GPS unit for over a year now. I use it for hunting, camping, walking in the woods or when I go geocaching (a fun little game and an extra way to use your GPS unit). I've been able to get within 1 yard of a point I'm looking for or just track where I have been and where I need to go! Although there are some downsides...which I believe occur with all GPS units that I've played with so far. One is that if you are in thick woods or under ...
...recieve the best reception to the satellites in order to get closer to the spot you want to get to. Another down side is the fact that the screen is not in color. What's great though is that you can save tracks or certain spots so you can get to them another day. ... Read review

Advantages Small, Basemap, Price
Disadvantages No Electronic Compass-Altimeter-

...is determined on how much memory your GPS contains. This can be either 8mb,16mb or 24mb. The Garmin eTrex Legend ------------------------------ This is the GPS i own. Working in an outdoors store (Blacks), owning a GPS is handy in giving advice to customers about which GPS will be suitable for their use. First off, being a mountain climber and long distance walker, I wanted a GPS that would suit my needs for programming long distance walks. As explained earlier, GPS use "Waypoints" in creating and following routes. Each GPS can hold a certain amount of Waypoints, and the legend can hold 1,000 waypoints due to its 8mb ram, and can hold 20 routes. There are a limit to the number of waypoints per route, and the Legends is 125. This can be avoided by just splitting up routes. The Legend has WAAS enabled, so when they finally allow us to use this... Read review

Advantages Easy to use, with good battery life and a useful base map
Disadvantages Loses the signal in woods

...I've been looking for a pocket GPS for some time, primarily for use with a paper OS map when walking in the hills, but also as a basic navigation device in the car. My list of requirements were: - can display positions in the British OS map grid units - enough battery life for a day's walk - can use rechargeable batteries - comes with a built in basic road map - can download additional maps via my PC After reading many reviews of the models from Garmin and Magellan, the 2 most popular manufacturers of GPS units, I decided to go for the Garmin eTrex Legend. It would have been nice to have a digital compass as fitted to the top of the range Vista model, but that would have added 50% to the price and it also consumes more battery power. Having a digital compass means that you don't have to be moving to know where North is... Read review