Review Date
December 28, 2007

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Value Rating
 4 of 5

Reviewed by: Chas(Unregistered User) ,  Car Camper

Price Paid:  $120.00 at Bi-Mart

Summary:
This unit is excellent. I used an etrex venture for 5 years, and when it finally gave up, I bought the etrex legend. It has several maps on it, including lakes I visit often. It works well on the interstate, you can look up exits. Another plus is all my cables from my e-trex venture hooked up.

Review Date
July 10, 2006

Overall Rating
 4 of 5

Value Rating
 4 of 5

Visitors rate this review
4.00 of 5, 4 votes

Reviewed by: kayak man ,  Paddler

Price Paid:  $129.00 at Best Buy

Summary:
I have a several Garmin GPS units GPS III, GPS V, and just picked up the eTrex Legend. I agree with all the posts that it's a good medium feature unit. One drawback to keep in mind is that the PC interface cable is a DB9. I haven't used a DB9 serial cable since the 90's. My laptop has no 9 pin connector (or other antiquated interfaces like a 1.4MB floppy). I think Garmin is a little behind the curve on this feature. If you want to upload maps from CD's, you will have to fork over around $52 American for the Garmin cable, or find a clone cable for around $20.

I emailed Garmin support that I'm disappointed they have not gone USB on a medium feature unit.

Customer Service:
N/A

Similar Products Used:
GPS III+
GPS V

Review Date
May 4, 2006

Overall Rating
 4 of 5

Value Rating
 4 of 5

Visitors rate this review
5.00 of 5, 1 votes

Reviewed by: rtbelless ,  Car Camper

Price Paid:  $149.00 at Scheels Allsports in

Summary:
For the money you cant beat this unit! Great screen resolution,the paddle makes it easy to navigate scrrens, backlight is bulletproof. The downfalls are small memory, and the Mapsource maps are garbage. Garmin needs to develop better more detailed maps. The unit works well in the boat and in the truck, battery life is better than I expected. If you want to buy a GPS unit for under $200 this is the one to get

Customer Service:
None Yet

Similar Products Used:
Garmin Venture, Lowrance IFinder2

Review Date
April 16, 2006

Overall Rating
 3 of 5

Value Rating
 3 of 5

Visitors rate this review
2.25 of 5, 4 votes

Reviewed by: niteliter ,  Climber

Price Paid:  $150.00 at Ebay

Summary:
This unit works great when there isnt alot of tree cover,the signal keeps getting lost in the summer,unless im in a clearing,but since Im a photographer,the reason I bought it was so I can get off the beaten track and find more wildlife,I thought the track back feature would help me find my way back,NOT so,the more tree,the more useless I found it,but since I can upload maps to it,and recover the traxks that were saved,it does serve a perpurse,it it worked all the time,it would be great,but it dont.

Similar Products Used:
Garmin Street Pilot III Color Map

Review Date
January 26, 2004

Overall Rating
 4 of 5

Value Rating
 4 of 5

Visitors rate this review
3.69 of 5, 16 votes

Reviewed by: Cedar Hills Terry(Unregistered User) ,  Day Hiker , from Cedar Hills, UT

Price Paid:  $200.00 at ebay

Summary:
The unit works well overall. I used to have the annoying "shut off when shaken" problem. There is a design defect with all eTrex units. I have shaken brand new units in REI, and they all do it.

Here's how you fix it. Take off the cover. Wedge a piece of toothpick or matchstick between the bottom of the left hand battery and the base of the unit (Note: don't block the contact, wedge it in next to the metal contact).

Presto! It works! Mine never shuts off unless I turn it off, or the batteries go dead (usually because I failed to turn it off).

I haven't bothered to buy the MapSource Topo software. The National Geographic Topo products are far superior. You can't upload topo's to the unit, but the detail on the mapsource uploads is crap so what's the point?

Customer Service:
None

Similar Products Used:
None