etrex venture or Geko 201?

Bitstring <[email hidden]>, from the
wonderful person Darren G <[email hidden]> said

Quoted message said:

Looks like I'm going to finally bite the bullet & get the GPS (if only so I
can join in most of the conversation in this group). I *think* I've got it
down to either the Venture or the Geko 201.

Any advice based on experience of either? In particular, the venture seems
genreally better apart from only having 2048 trackpoints compared to the
10k for the geko. Is this a real problem or is 2048 enough. It will be
primarily be used for 1-3 day outings, though maybe with the odd longer
trip.

Also, are there any new products due out in the coming months that might be
worth considering?

I've got the Venture .. purely because it had a bigger screen, and came
with the ludicrously expensive cable. Add tracklogs software/data (I
wanted 1:25k data for a 'non-national park' area) and you have a neat
tool. Note that it works like cr&p under wet trees though (ditto the
geko).

2048 trackpoints isn't a huge problem, since you can save logs as well.
You can read the user manual at the garmin website (ditto the geko).

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Darren G <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

Looks like I'm going to finally bite the bullet & get the GPS (if only so I
can join in most of the conversation in this group). I *think* I've got it
down to either the Venture or the Geko 201.

Any advice based on experience of either? In particular, the venture seems
genreally better apart from only having 2048 trackpoints compared to the
10k for the geko. Is this a real problem or is 2048 enough.

No! No! NO!

The Vista has 10,000 track points, if you need that many. You will need
more than 2048, even in a day.
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Gordon