Garmin eTrex 10 Outdoor Handheld GPS Unit

I purchased this last minute, I intended to borrow a friend's older version to use on a 20 mile hike across Dartmoor but decided to go ahead and purchase one for myself as I knew I would use it. I'm certainly not disappointed. The trip across Dartmoor was for charity and the weather seemed to know it. Thick, late summer fog shrouded us all day and although the map said there were paths we quickly discovered there weren't any! This thing literally saved us from getting lost in the fog (visibility was down to 20 metres). I wasn't looking for fancy map screens or anything like that, I just needed something that was going to give me a UK OS grid reference and this does. The batteries lasted ages (the walk was around 9 hours and it was fine, on constantly - 2 AA batteries). It seemed very accurate or at least using it in combination with a map and compass I had no problem getting somewhere with some pacing and micro-navigation so I assume it was pretty accurate! Acquiring signal was also no challenge. I get very warm and sweaty at some points and I had it parked on an inside pocket some of the way and it worked perfectly fine despite being in a sauna! Additionally it rained lightly for some parts of the trip and again, was absolutely fine. It has some other interesting features like using it with mapping software which I use frequently (not tried that yet) and it has a 'nipple scroll' which is extremely handy for navigating menus quickly. It did take some time getting my head around where everything was and the manual which came with it I felt missed a lot of information out so I had to go hunting on forums. I think this is a great gadget and for the price, brilliant. Highly recommended for the typical hiker.

My first GPS was the original eTrex and has been very good over the years. I upgraded to the eTrex 10 because I needed a second GPS and thought the extra sensitivity and memory would prove usueful. The first thing I liked was the easy to use toggle switch on the front of the eTrex 10 which makes the inputting of coordinates so much easier; the use of very stiff "enter" button with the old eTrex would often result in a tender thumb after a long session of inputting data. To judge the claims of improved sensitivity I went for a walk in a heavily wooded area with both my GPS units. Before entering the woods both GPS units were claiming to know my location within 3mt. As I entered the woods my eTrex's accuracy changed to 5 and then 8mt, the eTrex 10 stayed at 3mt. By the time I was well under cover the eTrex 10 was reading 5mt and 8mt when standing next to large tree trunks. By comparison the eTrex was reading 10 to 20mt. Generally the eTrex 10 appears to be 2 to 3 times more accurate than my old eTrex. Having the extra memory with the eTrex 10 means that no longer do I have to delete routes to make room for new ones. Finally another bonus is when inputting a linear route only one direction needs to be stored as the eTrex 10 can reverse routes with a simple press of a button. Overall an excellent and simple to use GPS and if as reliable as my old unit well worth the money.

Beware! There are no instructions and it is NOT intuitive. That said, once you have gone onto YouTube and watched how others have got to grips with it, it does become easier to understand and to use. Good battery life, it uses standard AA batteries, so easy to replace if you are on a long distance route and able to get to shops on occasions (or carry spares with you). I found this works best combined with OS Maps online. A £20 subscription gives access to all of the site's features, including creating routes and exporting the route as a GPX file to your eTrex10. The "Whereto" function then allows you to access the uploaded route and it is easy to follow once you get to your route start point. It's also good at finding exactly where you are (to within a metre if there are plenty of satellites). It will give you a grid reference that you can then see on your map. It doesn't give you a nice coloured map and show you your route on it, so be careful of your expectations. The (much more) expensive models do that. There IS a way of getting maps onto it, but it's not easy and involves JAVA on your computer and changing the device's internal programming. You can enter map coordinates manually as waypoints, rather than upload as a route, so if you want to navigate to, say, a campsite and you are in the general area, you can call up your named waypoint and it will enable you to navigate to the destination. Be warned though - you have to set the default to "British OS Grid Ref", otherwise it will still be in some USA grid reference mode. This is the basic model, black and white screen, quite slow to "toggle" and not easy to get to know how to use it at first, but I like the price and the functionality and would nevertheless recommend it. Definitely a bit of kit that I will always take with me. I still take a map and compass as well.

Its Simple to use and is very accurate. I use it for Woodland walks and for the Waypoint Navigation and Trip data. 2 AA Batteries last Ages and will be enough power to cover a whole days walking easily. very rugged and compact and light. A good basic waypoint navigation tool that can be used all over the UK mainly for me. Used for nearly a year on and off and has not let me down yet. If you want something like Google maps... this is not for you. But for a cheaper simple Waypoint Nav device. This is it.

I would say that the product itself is ok. The build quality is robust. However, as other reviewers have mentioned, the instructions are very poor. I had to look at loads of YouTube videos to get an idea of how to use this for Geocaching. This would be something that the manufacturer could improve fairly easily. This is a very basic model. I guess you get what you pay for. If I had known what I know now, I would probably have paid a little more for one with proper maps. However, that said, it does do the job and we have had a lot of fun with it. The accuracy of the device appears to be spot on. We have navigated successfully to geocaches even when there has been thick tree cover, which one might have expected to interfere with the satellite signal.

I use this product for sea kayak navigation. Obviously the battery life depends on the batteries used but with a good brand of batteries this will cover many trips (2/4 hours per trip). It has so far with stood healthy amounts of rain and sea spray. The menus of these things are pretty similar across models and are generally easy to use the only comment I can make is the joystick which is great for moving cursor (all directions) on a map can be slightly annoying when navigating a menu (up, down, left, right). That is probably being over critical as this is a great product on the whole.

I bought this as I do a lot of hill walking and found it to be invaluable and well worth the money. I never go anywhere without it now. It takes a bit of time to sit down and familiarize yourself with it how it functions, but it is well worth the effort. I can now do all my route planning in the comfort of my home by getting all the grid references from my maps, entering them into the Garmin e Trex as waypoints. This save a lot of time when I am out walking, trying to check my map in the wind and rain as my route has been stored. An added bonus is that the Garmin e Trex also records your route, so you can go back over it later to see how far you have travelled, which is a lot easier than trying to work out how far you have walked by looking at your maps.

Now I've got used to it, I love it and won't go for a long walk in a strange location without it. I bought after trying to follow a conventional map. It was getting dark and I didn't know where I was. I'd expected to come across a dammed lake which just wasn't where I was expecting it to be. It was a bit of a relief to be told later that it wasn't my map reading skills but the dam had burst and flooded the lower valley and just wasn't there any more. Now I don't leave home without this little devise. I don't know if I'm being a bit stupid but I had trouble learning how to use it. The maps are not maps as we know them but diagrams of routes taken. The instructions that come with this devise are not very clear (at least I didn't find them so). There's a lot on geo-caching on Youtube but I'm no geocacher. I want to use it to go from A to B. There are, however, some excellent YouTube videos. They just take a little finding. Look out for the ones by Trail Magazine. These are the clearest and easiest to understand. Before going on a long hike, I'll download to this device a route using the Ordnance Survey website. Another excellent tool! It's possible to mark on the Ordnance Survey website "way points" and then download this route. Alternatively, if I know I have to get back to a particular point (say back to my car) then it's possible to record this "way point" and then to track back it need be. The other thing that has to be noted is that the compass isn't a compass but more of a pointer to the next "way point". After getting over the learning curve, it's worth having this tool. My only other comment would be this unit is very heavy on batteries. I now take the batteries out between uses to save the battery life and never leave home without an extra pair of batteries. It's also quite heavy for it's size and fairly bulky so doesn't fit into a pocket easily.

No tiene lujos ni aplicaciones extraordinarias, pero es perfecto para hacer rutas senderistas con la seguridad de no perderte. Es ligero , de pequeño tamaño. no pierde la señal del satélite ,. La pantalla se ve perfectamente con sol y sombra y su manejo no es muy complicado. Por ponerle un pero, para mi gusto le falta un bloqueador de pantalla, pero aún así, muy buena adquisición,

Ricevitore GPS molto preciso. Riceve anche i satelliti Glonass russi; registra velocemente la posizione. Appena acceso contiene all'interno una mappa precariata di tutto il mondo, ma per niente dettagliata: sono presenti solo confini di stato e le principali città, ma senza cartografia e altro, solo l'ubicazione. Ufficialmente Etrex 10 non supporta mappe cartografiche. Attraverso un processo appreso online, grazie a Linux Mint e l'applicativo MKGmapgui, sono riuscito ad installare, nei soli 8 Mb del dispositivo, una mappa cartografica quasi completa della mia regione, scaricata dal sito Open Street Map e BBbike.org. Per quello che serve va piu che bene: è solo uno sfizio scaricare la cartografia; per avere uno sfondo un po' dettagliato alle tracce Gpx salvate. La parte davvero fondamentale sono infatti le tracce Gpx dei percorsi (in montagna e non). Sono liberamente scaricabili da vari siti online tra cui cito Wikiloc, e funzionano benissimo guidandovi sul vostro percorso. Se le tracce scaricate sono prive di riferimenti o waypoint, oppure volete semplicemente modificarle nel loro percorso, è possibile utilizzare il software ufficiale Garmin BaseCamp per studiare il percorso e progettarlo come meglio volete. Utilizzo batterie classiche Eneloop ricaricabili Ni-Mh che hanno un'autonomia infinita, oppure le usa e getta al litio della Varta, con le quali si ha una durata davvero notevole, di più giorni. Assieme al Garmin ho preso anche la custodia originale, che comprende la molla per agganciare il ricevitore allo zaino. Ottimo acquisto, anche nel 2020: lo schermo in bianco e nero da un tocco di retrò, ma ha il plus di non scaricare quasi per nulla le batterie.

ロガーとして使えば満足です。 入っている地図は使い物にはなりません。（大阪、名古屋、東京、などの都市と日本の輪郭が入っている程度） 別途地図を入れる方法もありますが、なにぶんメモリが少ないので実用性は低いと思います。 私の場合は単なるGPSロガーとして使用し、結果をPCに取り込んで処理しています。 単なるGPSロガーとしてなら申し分有りません。 固定に関しては、携帯電話についているような、細いヒモを通す穴が開いています。 他に固定する手段が無いのでオプションのパーツの購入をお勧めします。私は純正のカラビナがつくタイプのものを使っています。

Solid little gps, does exactly what it’s suppose to do. This is my 4th Garmin gps in the last 22 years and the best yet. Very fast to acquire the satellites even in the house under a tin roof. My other older gps and my 2 year old car gps won’t acquire the satellites unless I go outside. I did have to go outside the first time I turned it on but worked in the house every time after that. Garmin’s basic functions hasn’t changed much since 1995. There are a lot of switching pages depending on what you want to see but so did all the others I owned. This is a small screen gps and not a big screen tv so it’s impossible to put all the info on one page. The trick is to play with it and learn it’s as much as possible. My only major complaint is the instruction manual, it sucks big time. I give it 1 star for manual. I would say it’s impossible for a first time user to learns anything useful about the gps, Garmin sure has gone downhill when it comes to instruction manuals. Thanks to the Internet, there is a useful solution for this. YouTube contains all kind of useful instruction video for this model, enough to get you going out and use it with confidence. A major complaint I have seen in the reviews is “battery life”, most people find it is too short on two AA batteries. All my older models (3) took 4 AA and the battery life wasn’t that much longer than this unit. The big difference 2 batteries make is the size of the unit. Take my older model Garmin 12XL. Used 4 batteries and the unit was at 30% bigger but the screen is only about 5% bigger. I used to change my batteries every day before heading into the bush. I recommend you also order from Amazon a pack of ENELOOP batteries made by Panasonic. You get 4 rechargeable batteries that contains 2100 mah (stored power). 2 batteries runs the unit for a solid 24 hours,(first thing I tested), you bring the other two for spares. Never leave home without spare batteries regardless the type you use. No downloadable maps is another complaint I read often, if you want topo maps on your gps, do not order this unit, go for the etrex 20. I did see some videos on YouTube that shows how to download some maps on the unit but I found the quality of the maps were not worth it. I always carry a good quality map and a compass with me, gps or not. Much easier to plot a course with a map and compass then load the coordinates on the gps. I used to hunt in deep bush far from civilizations in northern Canada with gps, map and compass and I can say I have never got lost and have always made it out of the bush. Hope the review helps you.

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