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Went out hiking today with the Montana (1st time on the trails). Worked great. Finished the hike, and the freeway was jammed so I told the Montana to avoid freeways and take me home. That worked fine so I turned it off but next time I turned it on it wouldn't complete the boot process. Chokes somewhere along the way of booting up and shuts down. I can get to the USB drive. Managed to move all the maps into a separate folder but it still won't boot. Guess I'll have to call Garmin Monday. This thing shuts down way too often (well, usually you can turn it back on - but something is hosed on mine and its a paperweight now).

Ouch! Oh man, I know how much you like this thing so the downtime is gonna stink. Maybe they'll have a few more bugs ironed out when you get it back. I've never been very good about putting protective stuff over screens. I never get it just right. I wasn't going to do it to the Montana anyway, but this secures that decision. I hope someone makes a half-way decent case. I like to hang my GPS across the chest strap on my backpack when I'm hiking. I don't like the fully enclosed Garmin case so I'm hoping someone comes up with something useful.

I went for a walk tonight and observed the crazy compass stuff you described in an earlier post. Glad to hear that Garmin was able to re-produce it. Odd that they never took one for a walk themselves!

Ha ha! Well, I must say that the Montana manual has got to be the WEAKEST Garmin manual I have ever seen. I've had a '45, III+, 62CS, and now the Montana. This manual is worthless.

Wow been a member for 9 years and this is my 1st post! I'm using 2.60 (not sure if this problem was in prior versions or not)... 1st problem... * Go to the Proximity Alarms page * Click the menu button * Select "change units" * Select "feet" * Click "create alarm" * Choose a geocache or waypoint (doesn't matter) and hit "use" * Montana asks you to enter the YARDS not the FEET 2nd problem... * Go to the Proximity Alarms page * Click "create alarm" * Select "geocaches" * Pick a geocache (mine were loaded from the geocaching website directly into the Montana) * Hit "use" * Select the radius (it was asking me for yards, even though I wanted feet from the above test, so I entered 10) * The alarms page shows a completely different point - AND it shows 9.98 ***FEET*** (not yards) I emailed montanabeta about it this morning.