Buying 1st help decide Garmin Oregon 200 or DeLorme Earthmate-40

Going to buy my 1st hand held GPS and will be using it primarily for
snowmobiling and fishing inland.Not to say I wont at some point try
some geocaching. Looking for a unit with Sdcard and good signal.Trying
to stay in the low to mid $300 range. Seems the Oregon 200 or the
earthmate pn-40 have features that suit my needs......but being new I
need Help please.

pinmass wrote:


I run a number of Garmin GPS units for Snowmobiling in Wisconsin North
woods. The trails are twisty compared to 'car on road' track plots.

A 10,000 track point unit is mandatory. 250 miles of wooded trail
riding on a weekend fills the 10,000 trk pts. I currently use both
older GPSmap 60C (mapper) and a GEKO 201(non mapper).
Any current 60 or 76 Garmin unit has the features needed to trail ride.

As for power, I plug the 60C unit into the 2003 Indy 600 M10 dash
cigarette lighter plug. The GEKO 201 lasts 2+ days on AAA battery pair.

The Garmin unit stays relatively warm in a 'center of' handle bar
attached pouch.

I NEVER recommend reading the Garmin unit on the move.... riding trail!!

The Monday after the trail ride weekend.... I dump the active tracks
into my PC w/Mapsource at home and review all trail ride activity via
many different Garmin maps that I own.

The older maps have better info on abandon RR grades which may be
current trails.

Dennis M from GBay