Review of the Montana 600 Waterproof Hiking GPS
The Montana 600 is great for hunting expeditions, hiking excursions, and fishing trips. It comes in a bold 4” touch screen dual orientation color display that supports many mapping options like TOPO US 24, BlueChart g2, and BirdsEye satellite imagery.
This device has multiple outdoor features like tilt compensated three axis compass and an accurate barometric altimeter. If you want easy driving instructions as well, purchase the City Navigator map and auto mount. It’s versatile, it’s big, it’s tough, and it’s called Montana.
Get the larger picture
The Montana 600 offers a big 4” touch screen display that is brightly lit, allowing you to read it even in bright daylight. It offers enhanced colors and crystal clear display, using high resolution images. Its interface is easy to use and you can devote all your time in enjoying nature, as searching for information becomes easy and quick. The unit is waterproof and durable, making it withstand many tough environmental factors like dust, bumps, humidity, dirt, and water. With a navigator as rugged as this, nothing can stop you from enjoying your outing to the fullest. Wherever you are – on an RV, ATV, or in a boat- Montana 600 will make you feel right at home.
Travel to faraway places
It comes with many compatible mounts, and it is designed for being used in boats or ATVs. It can be used as a handheld device in a car, or even as a personal GPS navigator. If you want spoken driving directions, you can use City navigator maps with auto mount. You can take it anywhere and it has the mounts and mapping to help you go there.
Take it anywhere
You can add more maps easily on this device. There are many detailed marine, road and topographic maps. It has a micro SD card slot that allows you to load TOPO24 k maps. This would give you a great day of driving or boating.
Apart from that, the Montana 600 supports BirdsEye satellite imagery that allows you to download satellite images and save them on your device. You can integrate these images with maps. Plus, Montana 600 works with Custom Maps, the free software tool that transforms electronic and paper maps into downloadable ones for your device.
Share
Share your tracks, waypoints, geo caches and routes over wireless connections. Now you can go on a hike and share it with your friends. Just press ‘Send’, and your information will be sent to similar devices, and the games shall begin!
Navigate easily
With the tilt compensated three axis electronic compass, you can see your heading at any time, even while you are standing still and it’s not at a level. The barometric altimeter of the compass records pressure changes so that your exact altitude can be noted. You can use this data to plot barometric pressures and note the weather patterns.
Increase your power
This device comes with a dual battery system that will give you the option of using traditional alkaline AA batteries or lithium ion rechargeable pack.
