Friday, July 6, 2012

Garmin eTrex Legend C Waterproof Hiking GPSsuper


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List Price : $374.99 Price : $124.95
Garmin eTrex Legend C Waterproof Hiking GPS

Product Description

The eTrex Legend(R) C is Garmin's exciting, new, pocket-sized handheld that brings color, automatic routing, longer battery life, plus more to our popular-selling eTrex Legend. You won't miss a thing when you take this colorful, lightweight, easy-to-use handheld out hiking, biking, boating or even geocaching. The eTrex Legend C along with the eTrex Vista C are Garmin's smallest, least expensive products to combine a color TFT display and advanced GPS routing capabilities in a waterproof design: Outdoor enthusiasts will love the latest improvements made to the eTrex Legend C: 256-color, sunlight-readable display makes it easy to distinguish map details and see where you're going. Automatic route generation, off-route recalculation, turn-by-turn directions with alert tones, and icon-driven menus for finding points of interest (when combined with Garmin's optional. MapSource(R) CDs) navigate you safely to your destination. Longer battery life for more hours of outdoor enjoyment. Mini-USB port for fast, convenient download of map data from. Garmin's entire library of optional MapSource CDs using a PC. 24 MB of internal memory for lots of map storage. . Of course the eTrex Legend C still includes those popular features that users have come to love and expect in the eTrex product line, such as a compact, lightweight, waterproof design and user-friendly interface. The eTrex Legend C is WAAS-enabled, and like all eTrex units, the primary controls are oriented on the side of the unit, so the user can conveniently operate it with one hand. Also, an innovative rocker switch is located on the face of the unit that enables the user to input data easily, scroll through menus, or pan the map page.

Amazon.com Product Description

Garmin's pocket-sized eTrex Legend C handheld GPS unit enhances Garmin's popular eTrex Legend with a color screen, automatic routing, and longer battery life, making it one of the smallest, least expensive waterproof products to combine a color TFT display with advanced GPS auto-routing abilities. You won't miss a thing when you take this lightweight, easy-to-use handheld out hiking, biking, boating, or geocaching.


Compass indicates direction. View larger.

An easy-to-read color map. View larger.

Displays nearby attractions. View larger.

The eTrex Legend C packs advanced GPS navigation into a compact, waterproof device.
The unit offers a bright, transflective color TFT display for easy daylight viewing, automatic route generation, off-route recalculation, turn-by-turn directions with alert tones, and icon-driven menus for finding points of interest (when combined with Garmin's optional MapSource CDs). You'll get up to 36 hours of use on two AA batteries. The unit offers 24 MB of internal memory and its mini-USB port lets you download map data rapidly from Garmin's library of MapSource CDs (not included) with your PC.

You'll enjoy outstanding accuracy of less than three meters (10 feet) when the device is enabled to receive enhanced GPS signals from the Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) in the United States. Like on all eTrex units, the primary controls are located on the side of the unit, so you can operate it with one hand. An innovative rocker switch on its face makes inputting data easy, and with it you can scroll through menus or pan the map page.

Other key features of the eTrex Legend C include an auto-route basemap (featuring general map data like highways, major roads, rivers, lakes, and borders); a waterproof design (to IEC 60529 IPX7 standards--submersible in one meter of water for up to 30 minutes); 500 waypoints/routes/tracks (with graphic identification); 50 reversible routes; 20 saved tracks; 10,000 trackpoints; TracBack technology); alarms (proximity waypoint, anchor drag, and off-course, as well as a built-in alarm clock); a GPS patch antenna; selectable audio tones and color schemes; a stopwatch; a hunting/fishing calendar; sun/moon calculations; and a trip computer.

The Legend C includes a built-in, permanent basemap, Americas Recreational, which cannot be altered. The Americas Recreational Routable Basemap v2 includes the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Central and South America, and covers an area from longitude 30 to 180 degrees west and latitude from 60 degrees south to 75 degrees north. It includes a high-level, worldwide map featuring borders and major cities.

Standard map coverage includes oceans, rivers, lakes greater than 30 square miles, lakes greater than five square miles in the U.S. and southern Canada, lakes greater than 10 square miles in central and northern Canada, principal cities, some smaller cities and towns, major interstates, principal highways, political boundaries (state and international borders), major airports, and a database of Interstate exits for the Federal Interstate highway system. This last includes many establishments within about 0.25 mile of exits, including restaurants; diesel and gas stations; hotels, motels, and inns; overnight RV parking; dumps; campgrounds; truck stops; medical facilities; shopping and outlet malls; ATMs; and many more such attractions.


What's in the Box
eTrex Legend C GPS receiver, basemap (Americas Recreational), MapSource Trip & Waypoint Manager CD, PC/USB interface cable, wrist strap, quick reference guide, and owner's manual.


  • Automatic route generation, off-route recalculation, turn-by-turn directions and more help navigate you safely to your destination
  • Waterproof to IEC 60529 IPX7 standards (submersible in 1 meter of water for up to 30 minutes)
  • Mini-USB port for fast, convenient download of map data
  • 256-color, sunlight-readable display, 36-hour battery life and 24 MB internal memory
  • Measures 1.2 x 1.3 x 4.7 inches (WxHxD)


Garmin eTrex Legend C Waterproof Hiking GPS Reviews


Garmin eTrex Legend C Waterproof Hiking GPS Reviews


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65 of 65 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Useful and a fun toy, November 24, 2005
This review is from: Garmin eTrex Legend C Waterproof Hiking GPS (Electronics)
Two months ago my family and I joined about 2.3 million others in leaving the Texas Gulf Coast as Hurricane Rita came our way. The road system could not handle that much traffic and a 3 hour drive turned into a 16 hour nightmare. Roads were clogged beyond capacity and I used a county map to navigate along back roads (gravel, shell, dirt and cowpath) to get ahead of a few thousand cars stopped on highways. That worked fine until the map ran out. Then we were stuck in traffic and melting heat. As we sat there I saw other people using nearby roads with confidence and I assumed they had better maps than I did. I was right, but their maps were on their GPS devices. The decision to buy a GPS was made then and there.

I did a lot of research trying to decide which device I wanted to buy and soon found myself lost in a sea of varying opinions. Right after reading a review that extolled the virtues of one unit I would read another that completely trashed it. Eventually I... Read more
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56 of 57 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Very happy with it..., October 16, 2004
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Richard S. Smith (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Garmin eTrex Legend C Waterproof Hiking GPS (Electronics)
There really isn't much to say about the Legend C - it's an awesome

little GPS that lives up to it's promise of packing a lot of features

into a small package. The color display is great - you don't really

appreciate how much better your brain processes graphic information in

color until you experience it. The display's update and refresh rate

is also a lot faster - the map display really feels like it's working

in real-time while the earlier Legend and Vista did not. The Legend

lacks the Vista's electronic compass and barometric altimeter, but for

me this is actually a plus becuase the GPS-only elevation is more

usable in certain situations (like in a moving car or on an airplane

with a pressurized cabin). So even though the Legend C is less

expensive than the Vista I think it's the better of the two units.
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars eTrex Legend C GPS, November 21, 2004
This review is from: Garmin eTrex Legend C Waterproof Hiking GPS (Electronics)
I bought my Legend C the moment it was available and replaced my original legend so that I could get the autorouting and 24mb . I found that it also replaced my GPS V with 19MB. The MB is critical since you need to load the detaoled City Select maps in order to get address to address guidance. It is great to arrive at the airport, pick up your car and have turn by turn guidance to your destination, hotel or restaurant address and phone numbers in the palm of your hand!

The City Select software is very expensive - but it is exceptional and probably the best available at any cost. The smallest hotels and auto repair shops are listed and directions take only a few seconds. I used a copy of Europe Metroguide 6 on a trip but it would not autoroute and the PC generated route was frustrating to follow. Perhaps I will get the City Select Europe soon, despite the cost.
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