Product Description: The eTrex Legend C is Garmin's exciting, new, pocket-sized handheld that brings color, automatic routing, longer battery life, plus more to Garmin's popular-selling eTrex Legend. You won't miss a thing when you take this colorful, lightweight, easy-to-use handheld out hiking, biking, boating or even geocaching. The eTrex Legend C along with the eTrex Vista C are Garmin's smallest, least expensive products to combine a color TFT display and advanced GPS routing capabilities in a waterproof design.Outdoor enthusiasts will love the latest improvements made to the eTrex Legend C.
Amazon.com Product Description: Garmin's pocket-sized eTrex Legend C handheld GPS unit enhances Garmin's popular eTrex Legend with a color screen, automatic routing, and longer battery life, making it one of the smallest, least expensive waterproof products to combine a color TFT display with advanced GPS auto-routing abilities. You won't miss a thing when you take this lightweight, easy-to-use handheld out hiking, biking, boating, or geocaching.
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The eTrex Legend C packs advanced GPS navigation into a compact, waterproof device.
The unit offers a bright, transflective color TFT display for easy daylight viewing, automatic route generation, off-route recalculation, turn-by-turn directions with alert tones, and icon-driven menus for finding points of interest (when combined with Garmin's optional MapSource CDs). You'll get up to 36 hours of use on two AA batteries. The unit offers 24 MB of internal memory and its mini-USB port lets you download map data rapidly from Garmin's library of MapSource CDs (not included) with your PC.
You'll enjoy outstanding accuracy of less than three meters (10 feet) when the device is enabled to receive enhanced GPS signals from the Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) in the United States. Like on all eTrex units, the primary controls are located on the side of the unit, so you can operate it with one hand. An innovative rocker switch on its face makes inputting data easy, and with it you can scroll through menus or pan the map page.
Other key features of the eTrex Legend C include an auto-route basemap (featuring general map data like highways, major roads, rivers, lakes, and borders); a waterproof design (to IEC 60529 IPX7 standards--submersible in one meter of water for up to 30 minutes); 500 waypoints/routes/tracks (with graphic identification); 50 reversible routes; 20 saved tracks; 10,000 trackpoints; TracBack technology); alarms (proximity waypoint, anchor drag, and off-course, as well as a built-in alarm clock); a GPS patch antenna; selectable audio tones and color schemes; a stopwatch; a hunting/fishing calendar; sun/moon calculations; and a trip computer.
The Legend C includes a built-in, permanent basemap, Americas Recreational, which cannot be altered. The Americas Recreational Routable Basemap v2 includes the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Central and South America, and covers an area from longitude 30 to 180 degrees west and latitude from 60 degrees south to 75 degrees north. It includes a high-level, worldwide map featuring borders and major cities.
Standard map coverage includes oceans, rivers, lakes greater than 30 square miles, lakes greater than five square miles in the U.S. and southern Canada, lakes greater than 10 square miles in central and northern Canada, principal cities, some smaller cities and towns, major interstates, principal highways, political boundaries (state and international borders), major airports, and a database of Interstate exits for the Federal Interstate highway system. This last includes many establishments within about 0.25 mile of exits, including restaurants; diesel and gas stations; hotels, motels, and inns; overnight RV parking; dumps; campgrounds; truck stops; medical facilities; shopping and outlet malls; ATMs; and many more such attractions.
What's in the Box eTrex Legend C GPS receiver, basemap (Americas Recreational), MapSource Trip & Waypoint Manager CD, PC/USB interface cable, wrist strap, quick reference guide, and owner's manual.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Great little work horse!
I have owned the legend c for about 4 or five years and it has been a awesome little work horse. I have used it to kayak rivers and bays to a 5 day hike on the Appalachian trail to finding my way around a new city.
It has performed very well in those situations.
I would definitely not reccomend using this for routing out a long trip, I tried this when I first purchased it and lets just say it was a painful experience! However it can be a great tool for figuring out where things are in a car and for figuring out your arrival time it is spot on.
There are cons:
The little ... Read More
Rating: - WayPoint Position Accuracy
Purchased eTrex Legend Cx on April 6, 2008. Received the unit SN:15P013699 on 4/20. After extensive trouble shooting with Garmin Tech Support, I sent the unit back to Garmin on 4/26. My complaint was with the accuracy of cache/waypoints particularly in the longitude readings when over a known waypoint with exact coordinates, I found the unit to register as much as 25-35 feet away.
Garmin sent a replacement unit without giving any explaination of checking the one I had returned. I tested the replacement unit, SN:76968064, on numerous cache waypoints and obtained about the same accuracy ... Read More
Rating: - Great help for cycling!
I concur with the positive reviews for this product--this is one fantastic little invention that really makes for smooth navigation of new cycling routes!
I give it 3 stars because it's not Mac compatible.
BEFORE you buy this product, get the book "Outdoor Navigation with GPS". This is VERY helpful for understanding how GPS works, will help you select an appropriate GPS unit, and includes many helpful suggestions for saving battery power, etc... I imagine that many people who have issues with their GPSr's, don't really understand how GPS works, and expect miracles. The manual ... Read More
Rating: - great but I'd get the vista
I've had the Legend C for 3+ years and love it. By now you can buy it with a memory card which is much better for street software. For just topo software, the older style is fine (but 8 MB in the basic legend is not).
First off, Garmin is an outstanding company. After 2 years of hard travel all over the world, the rubber surround was coming loose so I sent it in to get repaired fully willing to pay (even with the loose rubber surround, it never faltered in heavy rain). Rather, Garmin sent me a brand new one free of charge (despite clear signs of hard use including large scratches on the screen). ... Read More
Rating: - Garmin makes a great product
This was my first GPS. I did my homework and checked out the various features I was looking for. I'm very happy with this product and it has exceeded my expectations. Nice bright screen and good battery life.
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