What GPS to get

[dajuice]

Hey Sleddog, wanted to follow up to this based on some experience from my IDBDR trip last week. I had both the Montana and the 590. This time instead of loading tracks one by one I used the overlay you told me about so I just had one map to turn on. It worked great on my Montana. The colors I had set the tracks in basecamp before exporting to the overlay stayed and I could zoom way out and still see the track. On the 590 every track was converted to grey on the overlay and it was only visible when I was zoomed further in than I'd want to be. Interestingly, even though it converted to grey the tracks would disappear at different zoom levels depending on what color they were when I exported them. The ones that were red in basecamp stayed visible as I zoomed out longer than the blue or green ones!

I had also loaded waypoints of various POIs on both units. The montana kept the same icon as what was in basecamp which I really liked. The 590 converted all the icons into a generic symbol.

Another couple of nods in favor of the Montana. I was really glad I had both the Montana and the 590 on the trip though.