does it work well in the mountains
197464
I don't know. I only used it in the National Forest in Montgomery County, Texas. No mountains - only heavy forest with rolling hills.
197465
I have never used it in the moutains. I suspect you will have no problems. What ever you do do not buy the Backtrack dtour....it sucks and so does the software.
197466
Yes, it does work well in the mountains. When you're in the higher places like mountains, you get quicker and better receptions.
197467
The Bushnell Backtrack works very well in the mountains, provided you have a good view of much of the sky. Note that you can only save 3 waypoints, and that you have to actually be at those places to save them. Then you can navigate back to them. You cannot read coordinates off a map and enter them into the unit (as you can with most other GPS devices). Last year I went to Sunrise parking lot on Mt. Rainier and saved a waypoint on my Bushnell Backtrack at my car. Then I watched it as I hiked to Fremont Peak and back, and it always gave me the distance and direction back to my car. The terrain was clear and open all the way, being at near 6000 ft and above treeline all the way. On the way back, it indicated I had arrived when I was only about 10 feet from the car.
1909957
I used them hiking on icy trails in Craftsbury Vermont, but trails were on fairly level ground, not mountainous. They worked well.
1898416
It handles slightly uneven terrain well. My yard has some big holes and a few slopes that it can take care of with little problem. I might have to go over a spot or two a second time hre and there, but over all no problems.
451706
The best reception is in a city where they have repeaters; up on a mountain top is good too. In the woods you might experience a lot of trouble, especially down in a valley at low elevation.
2273259
No, I use mine in the mountains of Panama. It only gets to 40 degrees a couple of times a year. Hopefully someone will have experience with colder temps that last for longer periods of time.
1368545
My driveway also slopes up here in the Colorado foothills. Although I have used this machine only once last week, it did perform well working uphill. That said, it did struggle a bit when running into compacted snow after a car had driven up and down the driveway. So it is best to use it on fresh snow, before any vehicle drives over it.
85329
I believe it. For your information I used in USA. In my country (Brasil) I have a little difficulties because the mountains stop the radio signal.
844397
We were IN the mountains and they were terrific. The reason we bought new ones is for exactly that reason; the previous ones were unreliable in the mountains. These worked perfectly!
878583
We are using ours at the lake where the tower is about 4 miles away. It does pretty good. Alit depends on the quality of the tower reception. It goes up and down at times here in West Texas
128445
Works great in any snow. I used mine two times this week. Once in slushy wet snow and one in a blizzard. The slushy snow shot out like a hose. It did jam a few times but clears fast. The blizzard, it worked very well too. Shoots out 30 maybe even 40 feet. Very happy with mine.
1227441
It works fine in my garage in the Colorado mountains where we see -20 on occasion. Should work fine in yours
1882311
I have several of these at work we get about 1 mile range in the open and for mtn. app. it should do better than that. Great Radios to have..
1604829
Yes, it does on decent. Not sure why it does not on climb. We have used it from Maine to Alaska, we are no on our way back. We have loved this GPS, it has so many features. We still are finding out new things about it. CJ
2284309
Yes, we live in the mountains @ 7,000 ft so Air Condition is not a big deal--The one I have has Heat, Off and Cool. You can set it you with a timer to best suit your individual needs. Hope this will help you.
335441
It sounds like it should work well for you. Trees do not usually present a problem but hills and mountains do. I suggest that you look at tvfool.com which will give you a better idea which stations you could receive from your location.
2048467
Katrina, I live about 1,500 feet above sea level (Southern California) so it works very well in my sunny area. I'm not sure how it would work as high as the Rockies, the manufacture should be able to help. Best of luck to you! Susan :)
710919
For the most part reception for me has been fine. Sometimes when near a deadzone in my valley it will get fuzzy, but upon my mountain I have good reception.