What do you want to buy?

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Originally Posted by SamIam

I want to buy a little hand-held GPS to help me get lost on my exploring adventures.

Having played with the Garmin eTrex Vista HCx, I recommend it highly. There are free topos that you can load onto it, unlike the Magellan GPS's, which limit you to the Magellan-supplied maps.

I have used both (wrongway has a Magellan Platinum), and find the eTrex much more intuitive to use, smaller, fits better in the hand, easier to read (full color) display. Actually, any of the eTrex series is good, but it's better to get the one with the magnetic compass and the altimeter, rather than the one that estimates based on the satellite positions, and can only determine your direction while you are moving. You can't mark a bearing on the moving-compass estimate kind.