I second the love for the 60 CSx. The downside: it doesn't come with any maps, aside from basic highways.
The upside: you don't have to buy maps from Garmin. There's a software called Mapwel (free demo, full version for $45) that lets you make your own maps from any image: http://www.mapwel.biz/ On my last trip to Big Bend, I just pulled down a bunch of topos from the USGS seamless server (http://seamless.usgs.gov/index.php), poked around in Mapwel for about 5 minutes, and loaded them onto the GPS. It worked great. On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Don Arburn <[email protected]> wrote: > I love my Garmin CSX 60 > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Apr 24, 2009, at 12:52 PM, Thomas Sitch <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear Friends, > > The time has come for me to ask for your help. > > The last time I was seriously doing any orienteering was in the military, > and before that digging through USGS drawers at the local sporting goods > store hoping to find the topo maps I wanted. > > I now find myself starting a business where I need a nice hand held GPS, > and I obviously want it to do double duty on caving trips and karst walks. > > I'm looking to spend around $300, but can go higher if there's a really > good model I should own. > > What do you recommend? Which models have served their owners well, and > which ones have looked pretty and then broken down with the slightest abuse? > > My Best Regards, > > ~~Thomas > >
