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.
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.
1666441
Ours works well within the walls of a large frame home. Outdoors, it goes about 100 meters.
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!
2220127
Hi James. It's great for mountains and fields. Pretty good for real estate. But as Amazon Customer said, for groups of people, you have to exercise a little care. If you get people too near the edges of the frame when you're shooting at the wide end of this lens, they can start to get pretty wiiiiiide themselves. Most people don't take kindly to that. An alternative to backing up and using it at the middle/long end is to shoot a bit wide and crop--if, for example, you needed to get in as much of the background as possible.
2284732
Works fine outdoors in good weather. There is a sensitivity adjustment if you aren't getting as much movement as you want.
1644063
Yes. I even took it out on the Appalachian trail just recently and it worked well in wet weather
1118444
These units are not water proof. They do work very well. We bought four of these years ago to stay in-touch with the kids on outings, and they work very well. The range is great. Range varies like with all transmitters depending on obstacles (such as trees, structures and hills, etc.) and atmospheric conditions. In our tests range varied between 1 to 2 mile in the city and wooded areas such as mountains, and far more over flat terrain or water (where you get the best range). All around it's a great product (best of it's kind we could find) with lots of great features.
1350339
Yes definitely, it moves over rugged terrain and hills with little effort. It's great for hiking and trails.
294439
It depends on the environment. It has worked fine 50' away but not always. 20' to 30' seems pretty dependable.
849681
The radio reception is about as good as my car radio. I mostly listen to FM. I live in the Ozarks, so if I am behind a mountain I do not get reception. If I am on top of a mountain the radio pulls in stations very well. I do not know how long the battery lasts using only the radio.
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.
1578360
I like in montana, an hour from yellowstone and it works fine. I've used it hiking I don't know how high up we were but its always seemed to work
1907469
I have not yet taken it to the beach, but here in the mountains it works great on mountain terrain off road, and on the sand around the river beds, and in the large sand pits in the playground.
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.
313705
Yes, very well. I have used it in a back yard surrounded by concrete block fence, in Nevada, subject to winds, and it works.
1531176
I sit on top of a hill in a hilly area about 10 miles from the transmitter. So I have no experience with being in a valley. My neighborhood has a lot of large old trees. I put the antenna up in the fall on the back side of my house and got good reception. When the leaves came out in the spring the reception deteriorated so I moved it to the front of the house where there were fewer trees in my line of sight to the transmitter and it has worked fine ever since. I give it a top rating.