Originally Posted by
Brojangles
Thanks much for the user input, y’all — big help. 👍👍
I’ll go back and take a deeper dive on the models mentioned. The more ‘stand alone’ capability the better, so to speak. I don’t mind hotspotting my phone occasionally for wifi or bluetooth, but required for setup and use is a no-go for me.
Will be doing multi-day trips between fishing holes/camping and such (lots of rural and remote areas, cell signal sketchy). Both road and trails. Of course, I’d like as many features as possible, i.e. color screen, map display, etc., but I’ll take what I can get if it’s solid gear.
I'd bring my etrex if I were doing a trip like that. You need a computer to set it up initially, but once you load everything on the card you are good-to-go. I also don't really understand the aversion to connecting to the phone for initial set-up like with the wahoos, unless you don't have a phone, which it sounds like you do. Once it's set up you don't ever need to connect it to the phone again.