I have a Garmin Vista GPs that I use for cycle touring and at work to give me an idea of where I am on the ground at any time.
Last week at work I dropped it and in the hour before I found it was run over by one of these at least three times and by these at least 8 times.
Having discovered that I was sans GPS I searched all the obvious places I had been and was already considering what to replace it with (62st sounds nice) when I carried out one last search of the place I was most unlikely to find it – the fill area – lo and behold I spotted the little yellow neoprene case it was attached to on top of the fill - when I tugged at the case the nylon lanyard attached to the GPS snapped – so armed with a spade I dug where the lanyard disappeared and extracted a six inch cube of clay into which the lanyard disappeared – peeling off the clay there was the GPS.
A push of the on off button and it booted up no problem. A thorough wash and you can hardly tell that it had had an adventure.
Probably the saving grace was that one of the trucks had run it over at least once and embedded it before the metal tracks of the bulldozer got there.
so if you want a GPS for touring - I can heartily recomend the Vista on grounds of durability at least
Last week at work I dropped it and in the hour before I found it was run over by one of these at least three times and by these at least 8 times.
Having discovered that I was sans GPS I searched all the obvious places I had been and was already considering what to replace it with (62st sounds nice) when I carried out one last search of the place I was most unlikely to find it – the fill area – lo and behold I spotted the little yellow neoprene case it was attached to on top of the fill - when I tugged at the case the nylon lanyard attached to the GPS snapped – so armed with a spade I dug where the lanyard disappeared and extracted a six inch cube of clay into which the lanyard disappeared – peeling off the clay there was the GPS.
A push of the on off button and it booted up no problem. A thorough wash and you can hardly tell that it had had an adventure.
Probably the saving grace was that one of the trucks had run it over at least once and embedded it before the metal tracks of the bulldozer got there.
so if you want a GPS for touring - I can heartily recomend the Vista on grounds of durability at least