Fun ski toy, but...

By I'm Snow Fool Ranked #566 - Altimeters November 29, 2008

After two seasons of sporadic use, this really doesn't cut it as a ski watch. The altimeter/baro function quite well. The ski chrono function is cool (shows elapsed time between user-defined elevations), but there's no memory for tracking multiple descents. The cumulative gain/loss function is also very cool, but again, no memory. Given the watch's bulk (massive, not for the ladies), I'd never use it as a running watch, so why does the plain chronograph have an extensive memory is pretty useless. I haven't had any of the QC problems that others have (bad outsourcing, no doubt), but the thought process that went into the watch seemed to be add features without assessing the utility of them to the user.

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