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The HighGear TrailDrop is a featherweight digital compass with a host of useful extras, including a thermometer and chronograph. The TrailDrop's negligible one ounce weight hangs effortlessly from your pack, jacket, or belt loop with its handy webbing-key ring attachment. When ready for use, it reliably points you on your way with a leveling bubble, 1-degree resolution, adjustable declination, and 16 direction pointers. And you won't want to find yourself outside the TrailDrop's 0.1-degree resolution temperature range: from –4F to 131F! The backlit face also contains several alarms, time with double time zones, date and day, a timer, and a chronograph with laps and splits. It's just as useful at the track as it is deep in the backcountry. Should you drop it poolside or fording a glacial stream, the TrailDrop remains secure with its 10-meter water resistancy.
Not for people with gloved hands or big fingers. Cheap construction, navigation bezel spins!! No direction on how to change batteries but there are 6 tiny Phillips heads on the back that I bet have to come off!
Received the trail drop compass as a gift and, of course, misplaced tiny directions. Could not figure out how to set clocks and alarms. HighGear website is non-responsive when you ask for assist or to download directions. Stick with a whiskey compass.
Remove the back cover and replace with two SR936SW batteries. If you are not comfortable removing the back cover yourself, you can have a jeweler do it, as well as replace the batteries (they will usually do this for free at chain jewelry stores).
Really enjoyed having the Trail Drop for about 2-3 weeks, but it wasn't up to the punishment that you might expect that something built for the outdoors would need to endure. The manufacturer would do well to, at minimum, consider a cushioned case that the piece could fit in, so that it wouldn't be so easily rendered useless. Batteries are HARD to replace, too.
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