Hey White Sage!
I struggled with this too.
1) if you absolutely MUST have a small GPS - something you'll carry everywhere and don't want to feel weighed down - the eTrex is it.
2) if weight isn't as big a deal and you want to trade the size of the eTrex for a very powerful receiver and antenna (SIRF III) the 60CSx is sensitive to the point of being twitchy. (multipath error picking up very weak reflected signals)
Aside from a slightly smaller screen on the eTrex, from a display and interface standpoint, these units are very similar.
If the eTrex had a jack for an external antenna, I would have bought it. I went with the 60CSx instead but sometimes find myself wishing for the pocket-sized eTrex.
Good luck - these are both excellent units.
Chris
Hi Chris,
This a bit off topic, but I have the 60CSx and a few times I'd have the direction arrow pointing the opposite direction I'm traveling but distance would still decrease. Ex: Arrow points south but cache is north of me; so I continue walking north and distance would decrease. If I turned around and went south, the arrow would "flip around" and the distance to cache would increase! Any idea what that is?
Thanks for any advice.... and apologizes for being off topic.
Howard