Garmin GPSMAP 60CS Water Resistant Hiking GPS
Garmin GPSMAP 60CS Water Resistant Hiking GPS
- All-purpose handheld 12-parallel-channel GPS+WAAS receiver with electronic compass and barometric altimeter
- Sunlight-readable, 256-color, 2.6-inch-diagonal transflective TFT display; rapid automatic route calculation
- 56 MB internal memory for storing map detail; supports both USB and serial port PC interfaces
- Includes geolocation games such as Virtual Maze, Nibbons, Geko Smak, Memory Race, and Gekoids
- Runs for 20 hours on 2 AA batteries; measures 2.4 x 6.1 x 1.3 inches (W x H x D); 1-year warranty
GARMIN MAP60CS — This lightweight, rugged, waterproof unit features a 256-color, highly reflective display (2.2″H x 1.5″W) that provides easy viewing in almost any lighting conditions. Transreflective TFT display technology provides excellent viewing, while maximizing your battery life, for up to 20 hours typical use between charges! Best hunting and fishing times — along with sunrise / sunset times — on integrated Outdoor Calendar Special geo-caching navigation mode Supports both USB & Serial port interfaces for data transfer Detailed basemap with general map data, including highways, major roads, rivers, lakes and borders Dedicated Mark, Page, Enter, Quit, Menu, Find & Zoom Out – In buttons; 4-position rocker pad WAAS GPS receiver, with accuracy to 10 feet in North America 20 hours battery life under typical conditions (uses 2 AA batteries) Accepts data from MapSource products for hiking, freshwater and saltwater (all sold separately) 50 reversible routes,
List Price: $ 535.99
Price: $ 535.99
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Ted Timmons
April 23, 2011great!,
The new Garmin 60CS is great. The barometer and compass are easy to calibrate and are fairly well-intergrated with the GPS feature. For instance, there is a configuration option to have the compass switch from GPS to sensor when your speed falls, and it lets you define that speed.
The 60CS comes with a belt clip, which attaches to the unit with a quick-release. You must mount a small bolt (provided) with a lug onto the back of the Garmin, but it’s fairly unobtrusive, and is used in Garmin’s other mounts (such as the bicycle handlebar mount).
Up here in the hilly, forested Northwest, the Garmin couldn’t keep a signal while on the belt clip at a hiking pace. It was VERY good at getting a signal when elsewhere- for instance it got a lock, inside my home, 15 feet from the windows, with a porch outside.
Garmin claims the 60CS is waterproof, and it appears to be so. The buttons are constructed of a heavy rubber, the fit and finish of the unit is excellent, the three jacks (USB, Garmin 4-pin, and external antenna) are covered with a grommet. Also, the battery cover has a locking mechanism and seals the batteries with an O-ring.
The basemap in the Garmin is less than impressive. I’d already purchased MapSource, and was able to install pretty much every map of Alaska, British Columbia, Washington and Oregon onto the Garmin’s 56 MB of space. The included USB cable is easy to use.
The auto-navigation of this unit works well. It prompts you with a beep about an upcoming turn, and then counts down from 500 feet to the intersection. Sorry, no voice navigation.
I’m a bit concerned about the screen getting scratched. I cut and placed a PDA screen cover on it, but that mucks with the resolution and colors a bit. I’ll probably leave it on to protect the screen from scrapes and such.
Like everyone else has said, too bad this doesn’t have expandable memory. Makes travelling a little more difficult, unless you bring a laptop along. But that’s kind of missing the point- why not use a laptop-based GPS then?
Overall- five stars. Garmin did (most of) their homework on this one.
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|Scooby Doo, M.D. "scooby_doo_md"
April 23, 2011GPSmap 60CS = A+; Garmin customer support = D-,
Read all the reviews at GPS sites and then try the GPSmap 60CS out for yourself. You’ll see why everyone is so impressed. Garmin’s eTrex models were a nice design, but users had to put up with several compromises (limited memory, poor screen, relatively weak satellite reception, etc.) that limited their functionality. The GPSmap 60CS effectively addresses many of the limitations of the eTrex lineup, despite it also being a relatively small, light, rugged device.
Hopefully the following will be helpful to individuals debating whether or not to purchase the GPSmap 60CS. I purchased mine soon after the model was released and think it’s overall the best handheld GPS you can buy.
PROS:
– Solid construction (made in Taiwan) with a nice overall “feel”. You’re getting your money’s worth with this GPS.
– Rugged. My main concern about a color GPS was fragility, but I’ve already dropped mine a few times and suffered no ill effects.
– Nice screen. The 256 color transreflective screen makes a huge difference in using the GPS and I could now never go back to using a monochrome model. The color maps are very easy to read, not only at night but also even in direct sunshine.
– Good battery life. Depending on how much the backlight is used I see anywhere from 10 – 20 hours of use between charges of my two NiMH AA batteries. With the backlight kept off, some people have reported almost 30 hours of use with alkaline batteries.
– Intuitive controls and menus. Even if you’ve never used a GPS before you’ll probably be able to use the GPSmap 60CS right out of the box without consulting the (well-written) manual. There’s also a nice (single sheet) color “quick start guide” that gets you up and running in less than five minutes.
– Acquires satellites quickly (fixes position usually in less than a minute) and maintains tracking fairly well.
– USB downloading of Garmin’s optional maps is relatively fast. Also accepts serial cable, so I can still use the GPSmap 60CS with an older (non-USB) computer.
– Optional accessories unlock the true potential of the GPSmap 60CS (but count on spending at least another $200 – $300 on maps + accessories). The AutoNav Kit includes a nice beanbag mount to keep the device stable on the car’s dashboard, a cigarette lighter power adapter and a CD with the – essential – residential street level maps of the U.S. and several major Canadian cities. I also bought bike mounts so I can use my GPSmap 60CS on my mountain bikes. It’s nice to be able to explore the great trails in Marin County and the rest of California without having to worry about getting lost. (It’s also easy to then later download your route from the unit to your desktop computer so you can keep a record of a trail if you want to go back in the future.)
– Amazing degree of customization. Background/text colors, sequence of presented screens, orientation of maps (north up vs. track up), metric/imperial units, backlight level, tones, WAAS mode, text language, backlight timeout and a number of other options can easily be turned off or on.
– Present position-to-address routing. Gives turn by turn directions to any addresses that are typed in on the “Find” screen (if you have purchased the optional maps). Having this “autoroute” ability in a GPS as small as the GPSmap 60CS is incredible. The unit also automatically recalculates a new route (but unfortunately takes half a minute or so to do this) if you wander off the previously chosen route or miss a turn. While I will never throw out my paper maps, since getting my GPSmap 60CS I now almost always use GPS when driving to an unfamiliar address. The directions are almost always reliable, but sometimes the suggested route is a bit more circuitous than necessary. It would be nice if Garmin could update the firmware to easily allow users to specify a route that goes by way of an intermediate location.
– Ability to leave “track points” i.e. an electronic breadcrumb trail that can be followed back to your starting point.
– Great speedometer/odometer for bicycles, etc. Thanks to my GPSmap 60CS, I now know that the speedometer for one of my cars is off by 7%! Lists odometer, trip odometer, maximum speed, moving time, moving average, stopped time, overall average speed, total ascent, maximum elevation, current elevation, distance to destination, time to destination, estimated time of arrival and a lot more. It’s also easy to customize which fields are displayed.
– Replaces those ridiculously overpriced GPS units sold for cars and can be easily moved from vehicle to vehicle.
– Nice industrial design – about the size of a small walkie-talkie or a large cell phone, but the GPSmap 60CS looks good and feels comfortable in the hand.
CONS:
– If you travel a lot, the built in 56 MB of…
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