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| Garmin eTrex Venture HC High-Intensity Color Mapping Handheld GPS | 
 enlarge | Brand: Garmin
Category: CE
List Price: $199.99
Buy New: $114.65
You Save: $85.34 (43%)
New (74) Used (2)
Avg. Customer Rating:  83 reviews
Sales Rank: 174
Platform: Not Machine Specific
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Tracks: 10
Batteries: 2
Batteries Included: No
Native Resolution: 176x220
Includes MP3 Player: 1
Size: Garmin Part #010-00632-00
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.1
Dimensions (in): 1.2 x 2 x 4.4
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: eTrex Venture HC
Model: eTrex Venture HC
UPC: 753759072872
EAN: 0753759072872
ASIN: B000PDR230
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great for the price October 5, 2008
Eugene C. Oakfield WI
I give the Etrex HC Venture 5 stars for its performance.I wanted to get it for geocaching it has gone way past my expectations.I use it for hikeing in heavy dense woods also and tried the back track on it which also worked great.So for the price i would recommend this product to anyone.
 Garmen Venture HGC September 30, 2008
I had two Garmin Legends before; they just plain wore out over a five year period. So, I decided to buy a new one after contacting Garmin and finding out they could repair them for $89. I selected the HC Venture because of the price. It's a great unit for the price. I'm not sure if the color screen is what I really needed. I do a lot of hiking on trips, so I may miss the altimiter, but I don't think it's worth double the price to upgrade to the next model.
Great intro unit for geocaching for the price! September 29, 2008
You wanna do geocaching? Get this. I bought this as my first unit, it was a toss between the eTrex H, the generic unit with no map and only an arrow, and then spending more money on this. I am glad I spent more money on the Venture HC, because I don't think the eTrex H would be useful at all on long hikes in the hills.
The Venture has an easy to see and read color screen and comes pre-installed with a basemap that is basically entirely useless. If you want to do any serious hill and hiking geocaching you need to get the topographic maps that Garmin offers. These are expensive, but are pretty much necessary when navigating terrain and trails with changes in elevation. I can recall several instances when I needed to check elevation levels to make sure I was on the right trail to get to the cache I was chasing.
The topographic maps that Garmin offers also have street data on them, but this device has no turn-by-turn and, but it's great to compare what is on my Garmin to what is in my car's GPS so that I can navigate easily to caches.
I only use this unit for geocaching, however I see no reason it wouldn't work great for regular hiking and out door activities. This is a good unit at a great price. Everything about it is pretty much golden.
Pros:
- Easy to use. I figured out how to use most functions without even reading the manual, but I am a bit of a geek.
- Easy to read the screen
- Battery life is great even on non-rechargables
- Very accurate! Usually if the geocache you're hunting has accurate coordinates, GZ on the unit will be exactly where the cache is. Make sure to turn on WAAS, as it seemed to be off by default.
- Unit is pretty much weather proof and has been banged around by me a fair bit and stays strong!
- Onboard memory is more than enough to have all the topographic maps for Southern California (LA County to SD county and everything in between) in it.
Cons:
- Base map is entirely useless.
- Draw time is a little slow, but nothing that could possibly hold you up.
- Only holds data for 500 geocaches, but, really, who needs more than that really?
 Good but not the one to get for Geocaching September 27, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a very nice little handheld GPS at a good price. However, if you are going to use it for Geocaching or anything else where you would need to stand still and still need to tell where to go, do yourself a favor and step up a notch. This unit does not have a magnetic compass. That means that as soon as you stop moving enough for the GPS to tell which direction you are going in the compass goes haywire and will be pointing in all the wrong directions. If you are going Geocaching standing still right near the cache is very common and you will greatly appreciate having a compass that works while doing so.
Garmin Etrex Venture HC September 18, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a typical Garmin Etrex product. I had an Etrex legend that pooped out, so I bought the Venture thinking it was a step up, but I was wrong. It does have a nice color screen, which is a plus, but I was very disappointed to find that Garmin's Topo 24K maps cannot be loaded as they can on the legend. Garmin doesn't hide this fact, by neither do they make it readily apparent. My legend is several years old and has a B&W screen, so I assumed that a newer model with a color screen would not have less map loading capabilities, but it does, and Garmin makes no effort to make this fact apparent. However, if you don't plan to use the Topo 24K maps, the Venture HC is a nice unit.
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