GPSr Suggestions – Mapping & Larger Screen

[EnergySaver]

We just took some friends geocaching for the first time … he’s never been interested but asked me about GPSrs for hunting … I told him I’d not help him unless he first tried mine geocaching with me … so we took out their family today.
I suspect a new geocaching family might be in the making!

Anyway … he wants a mapping unit, but like me is perfers a bigger screen than an eTrex has for example. I like my good old Garmin eMap, which of course they don’t make any more. He agrees that he’d like something like that. I’m thinking the Garmin GPSMAP 76 would be the best bet for him … it has the screen size of my eMap and has mapping. Comments?

[Buy_The_Tie]

I also love my e-map. It has a nice big screen, is thin, small, and light, and the buttons are at the bottom.

The 76 series have smaller screens, are thicker and heavier, and have the buttons above the screen.

They also have expandable memory, and as of this posting there is one for sale on eBay.

Downsides:
1. Not Waterproof (just water resistant)
2. No USB upload / download capability (Takes over 20 minutes to load 8MB of maps)

[EnergySaver]

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Originally posted by Buy_The_Tie:
I also love my e-map.

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Totally!
I wish Garmin would take the exterior of the eMap, waterproof it and update the “guts”. They’d have a real winner!

I also like the way you enter coordinate digits better than how you do it on new models like the eTrex.

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