Re: Inauspicious start to the new season
- From: Richard Henry <pomerado@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 07:08:25 -0800 (PST)
On Dec 21, 5:18 am, VtSkier <vtsk...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The Real Bev wrote:
Richard Henry wrote:
Snow Summit today. Beautiful conditions, not too crowded. Rented
"Performance" gear. Didn't like'm.
There are real advantages to not being picky about hardware, not all of
them monetary. Amazing that it wasn't crowded; perhaps everybody is
shopping, but Best Buy wasn't crowded either.
It was a nice day today, but I've spent it all inside tweaking around
with the settings on my new Garmin Nuvi255WT GPS.
It just occurred to me to wonder: can it record my wanderings rather
than giving me directions?
my Garmin Etrex (a handheld) can do this well.
It's called 'tracking'. It can remember the
track, which is a set of waypoints with the
meander remembered. This can then be input to
your computer via a serial cable (it's an
old model) to, say, National Geographic's
"Topo" program or even Garmin's own topo
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My old GPS (for the car - too big for the pocket) shows a dotted line
for the last 100 miles travelled. I haven't tried to zoom in real
close to study its detail
My new pocket model (actually mulri-pocket - you have to carry all
those batteries somewhere) seems to remember everything, including
every little touch on the screen from trying to hit the menu buttons
and not intended to be waypoints.
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