Win a Magellan eXplorist 610 GPS receiver

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Win a Magellan eXplorist 610 GPS receiver

by Alicia MacLeay
posted Monday, July 30, 2012 at 12:00 pm

Find your way to share a gear review with the Trailspace community, and you could win a rugged, waterproof Magellan eXplorist 610 GPS receiver. That's right; we're giving away a GPSr. It's our most valuable gear giveaway prize yet!

To enter: write a review now through Sunday, August 12, of any of your own well-traveled outdoor gear. That include equipment for:

According to Magellan, the eXplorist 610 ($399) is rugged, waterproof, and combines high sensitivity GPS reception with easy to read mapping and navigation. It features a touchscreen, 3.2 mega-pixels camera, microphone, and speaker to attach photos, voice notes, and videos to waypoints, geocaches, tracks, and routes. The one we're giving away is a new, 2010 model.

To enter, write your gear reviews now through Sunday, August 12. Each gear review you write counts as an entry*. You can write more than one review for additional entries.

In two weeks, on Monday, August 13, we'll randomly draw one lucky gear reviewer to win that Magellan eXplorist GPSr and take it exploring on the trails.

Want your reviews to stand out and be recognized? Check out our tips for writing helpful, informative, credible, killer gear reviews.

*Must be a registered Trailspace member (not guest) to win. Each valid outdoor gear review counts as an entry. Reviews must adhere to Trailspace's Review Rules and Guidelines, Community Rules and Guidelines and Terms of Service. See full Write-a-Review Giveaway rules.

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Rick-Pittsburgh

MODERATOR TOP 10 REVIEWER REVIEW CORPS

1,398 reviewer rep
3,786 forum posts

July 30, 2012 at 12:39 p.m. (EDT)

Pretty nifty gizmo up for grabs here. Sweet prize Trailspace.

Good luck everyone.

trekrider54

4 reviewer rep
2 forum posts

August 6, 2012 at 2:23 p.m. (EDT)

This is a great gps that has everything I'm looking for in a gps. I have the 500 great for beginners and geo-cachers. I do K 9 search and rescue and this is the exact one I'm looking for from Magellan with everything it has to offer and will help enormously out in the wilderness. In my books and writings about gps's This is the one! Anyone that is able to get this one please do it has everything you need. Consider yourself lucky

trekrider54

4 reviewer rep
2 forum posts

August 24, 2012 at 2:20 p.m. (EDT)

I was at search and rescue today, took out my old 500 Magellan and found that it has a few more times of use. The past few weeks I was looking into a new Magellan that my K-9 search and rescue friends highly recommended the Explorist 610 GPS receiver. I asked why and their response were (and I have to say most of them if not all said):

maps use a shaded relief, look nice and give an intuitive impression of the terrain
construction feels durable, could probably take a few drops without breaking
touch screen is responsive, don't need to select anything twice
display is bright and readable in direct sunlight

Went to Rei and looked at one and have to say that I was enchanted by the construction and how it feels in my hand.

Being in Search and Rescue you are responsible for having the right equipment and as good as you can get. I think that Explorist 610 GPS receiver would be the one to get.. You just don't want to get out into the wilderness without one.