What is the best handheld gps for hiking and mountain biking? Is garmin handheld gps best handheld gps for hiking and more expensive , sensitive so that they find the signal when in the woods?

The Garmin handhelds with the x in the model number all use the Sirf III chipset and a sensitive antenna. These models are the 60cx and csx and 76cx and csx and some of the newer etrex series have the x designation. Among our fellow hikers the most popular is the 60csx (I use the cx which does not have an electronic compass and barometric altimeter).

I phoned Garmin, and then asked around on the Internet I was advised to get the GPSMAP 60 CSX. This despite the fact that I don’t have enough sight to be able to use the mapping facility on a GPS. One person who is in search and rescue in America, said that since getting the GPSMAP 60 CSX he had never lost the satellites under the densest of tree cover or in the deepest of canyons.

Now I never lose satellite signals under any kind of forest cover and only rarely in unusual canyons. I highly recommend GARMIN GPSMAP 60 CSX as best handheld gps for hiking and mountain biking.

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