Sweet watch

By YAK Ranked #853 - Altimeters July 5, 2006

When I first got the High Gear watch as a gift, I was a bit concerned how it would perform. Lucky for me, I was going on a trip to the Canadian rockies where I could make good use of all the functions, and I must say that this watch is fantastic. I read some of the reviews about its temperature gauge and altimeter, etc, but I found them to be quite reliable as long as one understands how to best use the watch. Using topo maps on my GPS, the altimeter was not perfect but performed excellent. Even when using the altimeter to record vertical accent, it was only off by 20 feet on one hike. Pretty sweet for a watch eh! I have had the watch now for a month, and have backpacked 3 times with it and found the weather forecast to be excellent and all functions within reasonable limits. Best watch out there, and I eagerly recommend to others.

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