Product Description
Long after your dungeon use has faded, a Bushnell® BackTrack D-TOUR has we covered. With adult to 5 storable locations, it allows we to not usually save trailhead and campsite locations, though also record that dark fishing mark where we held final night's dinner. In further to providing elementary stretch and direction, a D-TOUR includes a self-calibrating digital compass, time, temperature, altitude and latitude/longitude coordinates.
Product Details
- Size: One Size
- Color: Red
- Brand: Bushnell
- Model: 360300
- Released on: 2011-05-01
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l, .50 pounds
Features
- Mark adult to 5 locations
- Auto time, temperature, altitude
- Track march taken, length, speed, temp, elevation
- Precision digital compass with embodiment and longitude
- Share information around amicable media, email or save to computer
By Bushnell
Buy new: $83.57
47 used and new from $65.84
Customer Rating: 
First tagged "garmin" by Carol Gora "horse person"
Customer tags: garmin
Customer Reviews
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18 of 19 people found a following examination helpful.
Really Cool And Great For Hiking
By wiring guy
Amazon will note that we got this by Vine yet we unequivocally do like it. we usually saw a price, though, and people will need to confirm for themselves if they wish to compensate that for this.
You can see for yourself with a product outline what a facilities are yet usually a few observations...
It does not yield a lane until we are connected to a mechanism and also connected to a Internet. All we get on a device itself is an arrowhead that points to your waypoint. You get 5 waypoints we can use as good - easy to name and easy to mark. Each waypoint gets a possess arrangement yet all that provides is a pointer to a waypoint, a distance, and a time (plus a battery and GPS indicator). So anticipating your approach behind to a waypoint competence be a bit some-more formidable if we are in imperishable terrain. It does constantly tell we where it is, though. With usually 5 waypoints, we need to make certain not to overwrite them if they are critical. Shouldn't be too bad, yet we need to keep that in mind.
If there was a disappointment, it's that we can't arrangement your trail on a device and wizz in or out to see fact or a large design view. Likewise there is no stored map. It's usually an arrow. It stores finish trail information and has a outrageous memory, yet again, we need a mechanism and an Internet tie to see it. When we do arrangement your track, however, it's on Google Maps and we get a same controls where we can wizz in, see a terrain, satellite view, etc. From when we was driving, my lane overlaid beautifully with a roads on a map down to a side of a highway we was on so a comprehensive correctness of a section is flattering good too.
Also, this thing has a built-in captivating compass that it uses in and with a GPS plcae so a arrow unequivocally does always indicate to your destination. It's flattering cold since if we stagger a section itself, a arrow also rotates so it keeps forked a scold direction. You also get a arrangement of heat and altitude, and another of outing distance, normal speed, and immediate speed.
It has a compass arrangement that works radically like a genuine compass. The arrow points north and a arrangement itself has a compass rose with a digital compass readout and lat/long.
Construction looks flattering good. It has a gasket around a battery dungeon (3 AAA) and a buttons are rubberized so it should reason adult to dampness flattering well. The arrangement has a backlight too for night use.
The usually genuine disastrous we see is that it won't arrangement a lane on a device itself. we am not certain why. They have a graphics capability since of a rotating arrow and compass rose displays. It competence be estimate energy or something else, yet they call it a "Backtrack" when unequivocally it's usually "DirectionBack" The subsequent rider competence give that capability or maybe a some-more able and costly indication already does if one is available.
I took it on a dog travel and noted some waypoints to see how good it did holding me back. There isn't many to this exercise, yet we was astounded that it took me behind to any one with 3 feet accuracy. That's flattering remarkable. It was transparent sky with no obstructions, and we don't know how many satellites it uses, yet still, 3 feet? One other thing - a smallest section of magnitude is in yards or meters. Not feet (except on altitude). That's where a 3 feet correctness comes from. When it counted down a stretch to waypoint to 0 yards, we was right where we had noted them. Distances autorange to miles when appropriate.
If we can live with 5 destinations/waypoints we are golden and will substantially find this unequivocally handy. For longer cross-country hikes in imperishable terrain, we competence wish something that gives we an tangible trail arrangement instead of usually waypoints. I've also got a Garmin eTrex H Handheld GPS Navigator. It is cheaper than this section and gives we a graphical trail arrangement (no map) and a lot some-more waypoints. Mine doesn't have a compass, though, and it seems they still don't. You have to pierce it in a line for it to figure out your trail so it can tell we that approach is north. You also have to be relocating for it to scrupulously indicate to your waypoints. The Bushnell is many some-more able in that honour and is a lot some-more healthy with a build in captivating compass.
But this section also has a bigger arrangement than a Garmin, is thinner, yet a tiny wider. we consider it is also lighter yet on units this tiny that competence not matter.
So 4 stars for me usually since of a miss of a graphical arrangement of your lane and usually 5 waypoints. Otherwise this is a unequivocally good unit.
14 of 17 people found a following examination helpful.
Interesting tiny gizmo, not as useful as a improved GPS device (or a dungeon phone GPS map application)
By Guitar Man
This device is a bit of an oddity. It has GPS functionality, yet no ability to demeanour during maps on a device itself. You can usually see maps when we bond it to a PC and lift adult a software. This device let's a user pull a symbol adult to 5 times (only) to map a lane or remember locations...but we need to offshoot it adult to a PC to indeed see a map and locations or route. we also found that this device has a tough time picking adult a GPS positioning satellite, even outdoors. Sometime it worked, many times it didn't. we consider this competence be an OK apparatus for a child to learn about GPS usage...but these days many dungeon phones do a improved pursuit with GPS maps than this device does. The digital compass and heat collection are good extras, and could make it a good device for hiking or camping. Overall, it's an engaging and sincerely inexpensive device, yet not unequivocally something we can see myself regulating unequivocally often.
5 of 5 people found a following examination helpful.
Limited device that competence accommodate your needs...or not.
By Charles A. Adamek
It is critical to know accurately what this device does and does not do. It works good for a designed purpose, yet that competence or competence not be adequate depending on what we are looking for.
First, it does NOT arrangement maps or uncover we where we are a approach an vehicle GPS would do. It does not have a ability to lane we to a specific destination. What it is designed to do it this: once we have noted a location, like a automobile or home, it will lane how distant we have walked, your speed, a ambient temperature, and a elevation. It will assistance we "find" your starting plcae by means of an arrow indicating in a instruction of a starting point. Think of a child's diversion of "you're removing warmer, warmer..." etc. Depending on how we use a device, that is a border of a usefulness.
Disclosure: we have used a device usually in situations where we have been walking on city sidewalks. Maybe if we were out in a woods, hiking unmarked trails, we competence be unequivocally beholden for a tiny arrow revelation me we was going in a right instruction when we wanted to lapse to bottom though removing lost.
After we have finished your walk, what it does do is this: when we lapse to your mechanism and glow adult a simply commissioned program and bond a device to your mechanism with a enclosed USB cable, it will afterwards plan your travel onto a Google map. You rise a library of maps display where we have walked, and a temperature, speed and betterment during any indicate in a walk. If we are walking for practice purposes, this provides a accessible anxiety as to either we are assembly your goals. Think of it as a high tech pedometer with after-the-fact mapping capability.
It functions unequivocally good within a boundary of what it is designed to do, yet your dictated use will establish either it meets your needs or not.
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