Garmin eTrex Venture HC GPS Receiver

Garmin eTrex Venture HC GPS Receiver An essential for any outdoor excursion, the Garmin eTrex Venture HC helps you navigate through the toughest terrain. The unit is equipped with a high-sensitivity, WAAS-enabled GPS receiver, which locates your position quickly and precisely and maintains its GPS location even in heavy cover and deep canyons. The advantage is clear: whether you’re traipsing through thick woods or strolling near tall buildings and trees, you can count on the Venture HC to help you find your way when you need it the most. At the same time, the Venture HC’s easy-to-use menu lets you create and view waypoints (up to 500), save and view 10 track logs, access setup features, and more. It even offers 24 MB of internal memory and a detailed basemap, so you can load waypoints and routes from the included MapSource Trip & Waypoint Manager software and add map detail from Garmin’s entire line of optional MapSource mapping products.

Besides appreciating its small size, outdoorsmen will also be happy with the Venture HC’s unique button layout, with five buttons located on either side of the unit. The benefits of this design are twofold: First, the Venture HC is a breeze to operate with just one hand, and, second, with the buttons on both sides of the unit, the bulk of the front is dedicated to the 256-color, sunlight-readable TFT display. This makes it easy to distinguish map details regardless of the time of day.

The Venture HC’s basemap, meanwhile, contains lakes, rivers, cities, interstates, national and state highways, railroads, and coastlines–in short, a host of helpful details for your outdoor adventures. Other details include an IPX7 waterproof housing, a built-in patch antenna, a USB interface, a hunt/fish calendar, sun and moon information, and a geocaching mode. The Venture HC, which runs for up to 14 hours on a pair of AA batteries (not included), measures 2.2 by 4.2 by 1.2 inches (W x H x D) and is backed by a one-year warranty.

What’s in the Box
eTrex Venture HC, basemap, MapSource Trip & Waypoint Manager software, USB cable, wrist strap, quick start guide, user’s manual.
Customer Review: Somewhat disappointing
I was looking forward to using the trip computer to track the hikes I lead every weekend. Unfortunately, if we hike for 3 hours with 1/2 hour break, the unit reads that we were hiking about 1.75 and stopped about 1.75. Thus the average moving speed is way off, etc. The only thing it seems to get right is the total distance traveled and of course the total time, which is a simple clock funtion. It works much better walking the neighborhood or driving but I bought it for hiking. I’m debating whether to return it.
Customer Review: Great GPSr for the money
Love having a GPSr. Glad I got a Garmin. Would have loved to buy one with more features, but am happy with this one’s functions and usefulness. Just need more clear instruction on how to best make this one work for my geocaching needs. Learning takes trying things out and asking questions of other users, and is a slow process, but working for now. Unit works as intended though.

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