After years of faithful service, the old Garmin eTrex Vista GPS has finally died. Bits of rubber have torn off, plastic bits have fallen off, the rubber around the edge doesn’t really stay on any longer (with an attempt at a repair similar to Vik’s) but most importantly, several buttons don’t really work too well any more. And so now we have a new, fancy and shiny replacement.
It’s the Vista HCx model, which is actually fairly similar to the old Vista C, but has a few improvements – it goes a lot quicker for one (perhaps the old one was getting senile), and is a bit sturdier in construction.
Hopefully this one manages even more years of faithful service.