GPS recommendations

[aguachico]

Originally Posted by PaHaSaPa

I've had a Garmin GPS 12 for years. It has all the basic waypoint, route and backtrack features and can still be found, at reasonable prices. It is old school, but it works well with my laptop and TOPO USA as a moving map. I have many waypoints in Dana that were obtained from charts and maps and have been right on.
It's not color or the latest and greatest but is a powerful device. My $.02

Ditto that. My garmin twelve has survived so many dunkings it has gills. It's 8 years old, major condensation in the screen and keeps on ticking. It's been EOL for some time, so if I were to replace it - I'd get the 72.

You want to be sure it can directly tie into the 12v source without a voltage regualtor. My 12 does not, but the 12xl did. Batteries are expensive. Waterproof.