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Nice side by side comparison, Boyd. I don't understand all the screen jargon. As far as clarity and legibility and ease of viewing is the Montana screen better? The 276 screen was widely acclaimed as the best, and for a while they were saying that nothing could match it. A Garmin tech told...

Comparison of he Montana screen with my 276C screen Montana: 3.5" X 2" 272 X 480 pixels bright, transflective 65k color TFT, dual-orientation touchscreen; sunlight readable 276C: 3" X 2.2" 320 X 480 pixels 256-color TFT https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?pID=233...

Boyd - I saw you post this on gpspassion.com: "These days I don't use any of my Nuvi's, I am very happy with my Montana on foot as well as in the car. Now if Garmin put the Montana software on 5" panel for vehicle use, that's something I could get excited about." That sounds like what I want...

My old 276C doesn't say street names but it does give verbal turning instructions plus the visual. I use both. My big complaint with the verbal instructions is that it drawls them so slowly, like "turn...right...in...200...feet". On crowded fast moving roads you need that info quick. Need...

I hear ya on that. Good thing they got rid of those nasty things. There are plenty of other drawbacks with it too compared to the newer units - much harder to get in and out of the vehicle, complicated, doesn't say street names, backlight usually must be on (the older black and white 176 was...

Thanks for the good info , Boyd. That's an excellent discussion forum link. " Reports are that the 5" screen on the 3500 series is beautiful" Last night I was reading on some other forum people complaining that the 5" screen is bigger but blurrier, having the same number of pixels or...

Ha! For sure. We need more signs like that. I've run into a lot of those. Still looking at what's available for possible future replacement of my venerable Garmin 276C, mainly for road use, but also for off road driving of the NJPB sort, but these days out west in Arizona, etc. New...

Yes, that's even better. I was thinking it needed to be run through an anti-fade program. "Can you make out the writing behind that guy in from of the lift?" We can see the "boys positively forbidden". Did the management call the workmen boys? Then the partially visible word might be...

What's going on at Batsto? I haven't been there in years. Do they still run the sawmill on special occasions? One of the last times I went there I found a tree with more hummingbirds in it than I have ever seen in one place before, including the hummingbird place at the Desert Museum here in...

Ong's Hat: John McPhee said that after a dance a girl got mad at a guy named Ong and squooshed his hat and tossed it up in a tree and it stayed there, and so they eventually started calling the settlement Ong's Hat.

I used to go down there, and camp there, but I never read this book: http://www.amazon.com/Ongs-Hat-Beginning-Joseph-Matheny/dp/096781622X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1330099663&sr=8-1 Has anyone here read it?

Hat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ong%27s_Hat,_New_Jersey

"Hold on to your hat" Old Mister Ong didn't.

"The little Chatsworth store has long been the heart and soul of the Pinelands, a local gathering spot that shaped John McPhee’s The Pine Barrens, a classic 1968 book..." I first came upon Busby's back in 1969 shortly after reading Herbert Gordon's intriguing story about the Barrens in the NY...

I've wondered about that myself, and even back in the days when I'd haunt those woods - the 70's mostly - the little bit of foam I saw and seeing the biplanes spraying fertilizer or bug spray or whatever it is on the cranberry bogs (and one memorable time on me!) made me hesitate to drink the...

I think the newer units are capable of using maps other than Garmin's but not mine.

EC - Is that 450 the Garmin Montana? Last time I looked into this, months ago, that was the new model I had my eye on, but I was going to wait until my 276 busted. There were software bugs in the Montana (if that's what you're talking about) back then. Presumably that's all been straightened...

"Well it seems like FOREVER, but my new map is finally available for download here: Boyd's Map of New Jersey 2012" I've been using GPS for years, since Garmin's earliest models, but since mapping units came available I've only used Garmin's own maps. I'm still using somewhat old technology...

I love GPS. I used to have to spend so much time plotting out complicated routes with paper maps ("turn left (east) on 3rd street; turn R(S) on 2nd big street - right after Avenue X but before Soandso Street...") or trying to figure out where I was.

I wish I had such an awesome thing as this back in the days when I prowled those wonderful woods. All I had was a gas station road map and geological survey maps that I purchased, the latter often last updated in 1898.