Take your Garmin Edge 705 hiking, skiing, etc

Although the Garmin Edge 705 is a "cycling" GPS, with a set of advanced features carefully selected and designed for the serious cyclist, it draws on Garmin's history of producing a wide range of GPS models, and is remarkably versatile.

It is lightweight and small, and, of course, is fully functional whether it's mounted on a bike or not. The 2.2" display is one of the largest for a Garmin GPS of this size, and the sleek case design makes it easily pocketable. The street maps and turn-by-turn directions work just as well when you are walking or driving as they do when you're cycling.

The battery life on the Edge 705 is rated at 15 hours, which means it's perfect for all "day" activities such as hiking, geocaching, and skiing, although since the battery is not removable you would have to be careful in using it on a multiday backpacking trip, just firing it up for tricky navigation areas, to find a campsite, or to check on progress.

The 705 works with nearly all standard Garmin maps, on memory card or on DVD. Although we ship our 705 units with full street maps of the US, Canada, and Puerto Rico, if you venture further afield it's just a matter of ejecting the included memory card and inserting a new one. Garmin has a wide range of street, topographic, and marine maps. The topographic maps in particular are very useful when hiking, and indeed can be very useful when mountain biking too.

Finally, and here we're "tooting our own horn" a little, the Edge 705 works great with our SnowRanger GPS ski resort trail maps. Since it's rugged, highly water-resistant, and rated down to a temperature of 5°F (-15°C) it's a perfect unit to ski with. The trail maps look great at that big screen, and it tracks every run and lift ride for you to upload to our Snow Days community and share at the end of the day.

Here's another take on the versatility of the Garmin Edge 705.

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Garmin Edge 705 with Street Maps and Cadence

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