Quoted: I have the garmin etrex legend cx. I haven't done much hiking with it, but roadwork and boating have been great with it. Easy to use. |
+1. In a previous life I was involved with GPS design. Garmin offers the best GPS receiver chipset available to consumers. It is also made in the USA (Olathe KS) and is top notch equipment. They also make GPS for high end civil aviation.
I've owned and operated a Garmin eTrex Legend C and CX, and the original Legend before it. The only gripe I have is that Garmin went to a proprietary data interchange format a few years back so it makes it difficult to interface to non-Garmin software.
But get Garmin if you can. Especially if you are buying it as opposed to getting it as a gift. IMHO the only chipset that compares with the Garmin is Rockwell Collins but I don't think you will find Collins chipsets in consumer products.