Originally Posted by
BigBlueToe
I have a Garmin Vista HcX. I tried it out on my ride on the Lewis and Clark trail this summer. I found it to be moderately useful. I tried to use ACA's waypoints and found them very confusing. There were thousands of them, many of which didn't apply to me. I was madly trying to figure things out and load routes in the days before I left home.
Agree: the ACA's waypoints are terrible! Before I rode down the Pacific coast, I created my own routes (using BikeRouteToaster, IIRC) and loaded them into my Edge 705. I manually laid out routes along bike paths when necessary (using satellite view if the path wasn't marked on the map). Worked out
great! I also took the ACA's paper maps and the Kindle version of "Bicycling the Pacific Coast" with me, but really only looked at them during the evening when trying to figure out what the next day's riding would hold.