Handedness

[+meralgia]

In which hand do you enter coords and/or use your GPS?

 

Although I'm right-handed, I enter coords and navigate with my left. I have a "little blue" Garmin.

[+briansnat]

The eTrex units are designed to be held in the left hand, but I use mine in my right. Most other units don't prefer one hand or another and I also use my right hand for those as well.

[+TrailGators]

I use my right hand. My left hand doesn't seem to work as well as my right hand. I've had this issue since I was born.

[+Zolgar]

Both.

 

Usually for idle watching it's in the left. Often in the left while I'm walking somewhere..

If I'm actually doing something with it (like entering information, or telling it to goto) usually the right.

If I'm in a car, it's usually in whichever hand has the window, because I have to hang it out the window for a moment to pick up my signal most of the time.

 

If I know more or less where I'm going and don't need the GPSr yet, it's hooked to my belt/backpack/hydration pack.

 

And sometimes I hand it to Roo and say "Fine, YOU find the cache."

(Roo, BwarRoo, is the guy I usually cache with. he lacks a GPSr as of yet.)

[+Knight2000]

[+Renegade Knight]

Left

[+KJcachers]

GPS in the right, hiking stick in the left.

[+redtech]

Left Hand

[+Stargazer22]

GPSr in the left hand, hiking stick in the right hand.

Lunch with both hands!

[+nekom]

I put coordinates in with the right hand, but navigate and hold it with the left usualy. Right hand is for taking pictures.

[+infiniteMPG]

Hiking stick in right hand twarting spider webs, GPS in left hand to enter data with right. But belt clip more comfortable on right side so right hand for a quick coord/direction check. Still looking for GPS mount to go on top of hiking stick so I don't step on resting snakes again... focus! ::sigh::

[+Too Tall John]

Generally right hand, but if I'm tired of using the hiking stick with the right, I'll switch. Usually not for long, as the belt clip is on the right, and I usually have the lanyard carabinered to a belt loop on the right, in case I drop it.

 

I ran into one cacher on the trail who had mounted his GPSr onto his hiking stick, he could answer "None!"

[Cape Cod Cacher]

"old School" gps 48. Hold in right hand and button (verb) with thumb. Am-beer-dexterous afterwards.

[+Thrak]

GPSMAP 76CSx

 

Walking: Left

Driving: Left (the mount is on the dash to the left of the steering wheel)

Entering Coordinates: Right

[+The Jester]

GPS 12 / Rino 110 / GPSMAP 60csx

 

Either - it depends on which hand is holding on to the hillside... But most commonly the right hand, though I've trained my left to do just about everything the right can do but write (except on the keyboard when I write with both ).

[bogleman]

working - right hand (index finger & thumb)

viewing - left hand

Most of the time I keep my GPS in my outer left pocket and pull it out when I need to look at the numbers

[+skeezicks]

The right when I'm walking or navigating and the left when I'm entering coords or something using the thumb stick.

[+cache_test_dummies]

Who needs hands?

 

[+Blaidd-Drwg]

A GPSMAP60CSX carried in my left hand.

[+Robespierre]

You wear the mitt on the left hand so the right hand is free to throw the ball.

[+Annie & PB]

Right hand for walking along.

Left hand for entering co-ords.

[+Team Cotati]

At first I thought that this was surely a joke.

 

I no longer believe that.

[+Too Tall John]

Who needs hands?

Dude! Keep letting people know those are available here in NH and we'll have a serious supply problem!