[pct-l] Lets Talk High-End Watches

[Michael Pinkus]

Hi,I have the Casio Pathfinder. It's not a bad watch being a solar powered one. My only beef is the thermometer actually measures your body temp as opposed to the outside temp. For that, you have to take it off your wrist and let it stabilize....

> From: pacificcresttrail2011 at gmail.com
> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:19:53 -0800
> To: pct-l at backcountry.net
> Subject: [pct-l] Lets Talk High-End Watches
> 
> Hey Everybody,
> 
> I have been wanting to bring this up for a few weeks.
> 
> I would like to know every bodies thoughts on the higher end watches like
> Suunto Core, Timex Expeditions, Casio Pathfinder and so forth.
> 
> None of these watches are cheap and some of them down-right crazy expensive
> (600+ for some).
> 
> Me personally, being on the trail I often times (most days) like to know the
> time, the date (hey, days get long sometimes on the trail, eh), what
> elevation I am at, and how freaking cold it is while I am all bundled up
> freezing and trying to sleep.
> 
> That said, a person can get by without knowing pretty much most of that -
> and some would say all of that.
> 
> 
> But, none the less, looking for thoughts from those of you who have dropped
> the money for some of these higher end watches.
> 
> If there was a way to get the Suunto Core to display the time & the
> temperature, I'd probably already own one. But, I don't want to fumble
> around when it is 3am and freezing with pressing buttons, just to see the
> time and temp.
> 
> John
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