sandia_doug

Magellan eXplorist 500LE /w 512 sd & Li-on Rechargable Battery I love this Gps for several reasons: Waterproof Rugged Accurate Good Battery Life Found Cache Feature Small/Compact design Easy Operation I've also used the Magellan eXplorist 400. It works fine, but the 500 is a step up. The Garmin Vista is nice also, but I'll stick to Magellan !

Is the .gs file activated? I know on the 500 you must activate the file first. To do this you go Preferences>Active Setup>Geocaches. Then you can use the goto thing. Happy Caching.

Heres what i know: You're talking about auto-routing. Step by step directions, right? Because the Explorist 210, 400, and the vista, and legend don't have that. That leaves you with the most expensive one, the Venture CX.. I'm not sure how waterproof the Venture CX is, but the magellans are for sure. So the question here is, do you want durability, or autorouting? So unlesss you want to shell out the dough for the Venture, I think that all the other gps' would do what you wanted. I have a explorist 400. It works great, has good maps, (topo too), is waterproof, and durable. I've dropped it quite a few times without giving it a second thought. I also have a Etrex Vista. Because it is a friend of mines GPS, i don't take it on adventures where it could get damaged. That gps also seems to work. Also, Magellan or Garmin. Oh well

I've had the same problem. I ended up using excel and printing off 5 logsheets. It worked fine. I just don't know where i saved the file....

Great Thread!! I currently own a Garmin Vista and a Magellan Explorist 400.