Originally Posted by sweetnsourbkr
FWIW, I also have the Garmin Vista Cx. I chose it because of its practicality; being able to do geocaching as well as navigation on the bike or car. My only complaint is that you can't download the profile information of a route in detail. You can download the route (or "track") but the Garmin software offers no way to analize your elevation information.
Is there another tool out there that can interface with the Vista and do profile analysis?
You can upload your tracks to motionbased.com and get plenty of statistics, including an elevation plot and total climb. motionbased.com is a free service (with restrictions).
You could also purchase a copy of TopoUSA and download your tracks to it to see the elevation data.