GPS recommendations??

[Rambunctous]

I bought a Garmin eTrec 10 ($99) this morning. Tried it and then found it takes a annual subscription to download topo maps. I returned it to back to Walmart. Going to Maine tuesday and wish to have one. What do trail riders use? What should I want or look for? Simple is a plus cause I am device challenged. I should mention I have a Verizon Samsung galaxy 5 phone.

[The Snowman]

Google maps or any other map app.

[GearHd6]

What do you want it to do? Street maps aren't going to do you much good in the woods. I just use an old Magellan that records my track. I can usually tell where I am with a combination of the GPS and the paper trail maps you can get locally. The trails are signed, some not the greatest but there's signs. Use the GPS and the paper map to figure out what intersections you're at.

I can't tell you what GPS is going to have topo maps already on it. Usually the ones that do aren't cheap or you have to pay to load them. Maybe look at something like the Oregon?

[Garandman]

What is your budget?

Any GPS is helpful. A waterproof gps for $100 is about as good as it gets.

I have an old eTrex with a bike handlebar mount you could borrow but it doesn't have topo. If you are going to Abbott ME you don't really need it.

[GearHd6]

If you head over toward The Forks things start to get sketchy. I was glad I had the GPS over there.

[Rambunctous]

Yup Abbot is it. Thanks for the offer Garandman. I found a Craigslist unit I bought used tonight. Megellan topo. It came with a map CD. The guy I got it from got it for Christmas a few years ago. He didn't know how to use it. I will experiment tomorrow. Thanks guys. P.S. I will bring a compass and maps too.

[Stromper]

tom tom rider 2 4.3

Winding roads is the bomb !!! <<< Instant local expert anywhere

$339

[Garandman]

tons of how-to videos on youtube.

I saved off major intersections as waypoints as a breadcrumb trail.

A favorite first-thing destination is the bakery. The local Polaris dealer has trail maps. The Polaris dealer near Moosehead has 24 hour gas, credit card operated.

[Rambunctous]

I love cannoli's for breakfast. Are there places for breakfast and lunch to ride to? Like burgers.

[GearHd6]

There is the bakery right in Abbott. Ride up into Greenville then go to the Black Frog, the view of Moosehead is great. Head up to the B52 crash site after that, the trail out there is great also.

[number9]

I bought a Garmin eTrec 10 ($99) this morning. Tried it and then found it takes a annual subscription to download topo maps. I returned it to back to Walmart. Going to Maine tuesday and wish to have one. What do trail riders use? What should I want or look for? Simple is a plus cause I am device challenged. I should mention I have a Verizon Samsung galaxy 5 phone.

Try this maybe: http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/66200..._for_Mapsource

[Rambunctous]

I am at Balsamwoods Campground. It's beautiful. Definitely the nicest campground I have been to. Spent the weekend up at Millinocket and did a day of whitewater rafting. Eddie the guy I am with won a trip for 2 for $121 on a fundraiser auction for New Hampshire public television. The trip was wild fun. Class V rapids on the Penebscot River near Mt Katadin....Tomorrow will be the first day of riding.

[Rambunctous]

So far on the trails I have seen 2 deer, 2 bald eagles, 4 turkeys, and quails. And the biggest hare I ever seen. Reporting from the StressFree Moose Restaurant.

[Rambunctous]

Still no moose. Have been up to the B'52 crash site, the old radar site in Moscow, the bakery, the Red Maple Inn, and Bingham and Greenville a couple times. Meeting locals is fun. I skied at Squaw Mountain around 25 years ago and I wanna see if I can get there on the bike. And the Gulf in Greenville sells 93 octane so I am filling my two cans up and putting as much as I can in before I leave camp that way when I get 91 octane out on the trail it is maybe making it end up at 92. My grill regulator stopped working and Weber sent out a new one under warranty so kudos to Weber. Fast too. The Indian Hill Trading Post is quite a store for hunters, campers, hikers and what nice clothing too. No junk. To look through the entire store a guy needs a couple of hours. Saving it for a bad weather day.

[Rambunctous]

[Rambunctous]

The kid in the picture just shot a bear. 150 pounds. Not the kid the bear.

[RandyO]

I would have to recommend the Delorme Earthmate PN-60 for off road use

[Rambunctous]

[Stromper]

Over the last week in Mass . VT. NH
I invented winding (not a great find but fun)

Used tomtom winding feature to have it pilot me to\the little towns not on highways on the maps over a mountains if possible

\\Many great little roads I would have never just gone down plus ZERO LEOS

Like Naven... I going to do that a lot