First real outing

philpugh · Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 6:24 pm Post subject: First real outing

Had the device a short while now but it had it's first real outing this Saturday. I am very impressed by it's performance - we were out over 9 hours and the battery level on the power pack dropped just the one block. The tracklog seemed to be accurate apart from the first 3 or four points which recorded speeds of 240kmph and seemed to be as it fixed the initial location accurately. It was in my pocket (inside it's case) for a lot of the time without any loss of accuracy. Will have to get used to resetting the logging as I start a walk. It didn't get any bad weather to try it's ruggedness (it was misty for an hour or so - very pleasant suprise for a high walk in the Lakes in March).

One of the other lads on the walk was trying out his new Oregon with the OS mapping on it. It was good to do a side-by-side comparison. The larger screen on the Active10 was easier to read and gave a better area display. One thing I would like to see (it may be there but I haven't found it yet) is when I have zoomed the map I would like to be able to return to the default zoom level by a single action rather than using the zoom controls to prevent the slight pixelation when you aren't quite right. I may have missed the method of doing this though.

I like the ability to display the non-active routes which I used to have several route options available. We used this as the wind was a bit to much for us to be comfortable descending by Fleetwith Pike ridge.

I'll be posting the routes in the forums - its the hills to the North of Buttermere (Robinson, Hindesgarth, Dale Head returning via Haystacks) 20Km with 4300ft ascent. They were planned on the Satmap route planner.

EDITED to correct meaning.
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