I'll chime in since I was forced to go GPSr shopping today. (My whole cache kit : GPS, Palm Pilot, digital camera, and swag bag was stolen out of my car last night.) Everyone will tell you they have a favorite company. (Well, as long as it's Magellan or Garmin -- there's a couple smaller companies besides them like Eagle, but we'll stick with the big two.) If you know you'll never need maps (and frankly I couldn't do without 'em) you'll be perfectly fine with your Etrex Summit. It'll get you to the cache easily. If you do decide to go with maps in your GPS, you have a decision to make. Because whatever company you buy your GPS from, you must also buy their map software. My Magellan Sportrak Map was stolen, but since I still have the map software, I am sticking with a Magellan. I did notice a very disturbing trend today : it's getting hard to find Magellans in most retail outlets. A couple of the retailers I spoke with today said that they no longer order Magellans because the company is getting hard to deal with. (I can say that I have had excellent service on the one occasion that I needed to have my Magellan serviced.) One location that did have a couple Magellans in stock was Sports Authority, and the version they were selling (the Explorist 300) ran for $229 and HAD NO CAPABILITY FOR UPLOADING ANYTHING. Unbelievable at that price. If you're buying online, you can still find what you want for a reasonable price, and I did order a Magellan Gold for a song today. Nevertheless, if I was starting fresh with my first GPS, I'd take a good hard look at a company which seems to be less and less available at retail -- they might be on the way out. Hard to tell. --Dave, The Cow Spots Roping The Wind wrote: >From: "AzRockhound" >Reply-To: listserv@azgeocaching.com >To: >Subject: RE: [Az-Geocaching] Question for the GPS Cachers >Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 19:16:03 -0700 > >I have an Etrex Summit........ how does that rate among the GPS's out >there for geo-caching??? Boy, that question ought to open a big ol' can of worms on this list! :) If is has the name Garmin on it, it rates highly. :) > I use it primarily for hiking........ What are the alternatives to >higher end and lower end GPS's that this group uses..... Alternatives? Only one.... 60C/CS! :) hahahhahahhehehehehe > All suggestions appreciated...... > > Ps.... I dont forsee using Maps..... Once you start using maps (more specifically, color maps!), you wouln't forsee using anything BUT maps! :) Seriously, if you dont want to use maps, then I would say the Etrex Summit that you currently own is a great middle of the road GPS. No need to switch to anything else! (Really, a GPS is a GPS as long as it is modern and has WAAS and the like). Cache on! Scott Team Ropingthewind ____________________________________________________________ Az-Geocaching mailing list listserv@azgeocaching.com To edit your setting, subscribe or unsubscribe visit: http://listserv.azgeocaching.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocaching Arizona's Geocaching Resource http://www.azgeocaching.com --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more.