I showed myself that I'm serious about this endeavour! I ordered Gloves for the fronts and a new GPS. For once I'm on the curve. I found a great price for the Garmin Vista Cx, everything I wanted. Looked it up on the Garmin site, compared it to the Legend etc., has a barometric thing and electronic compass, unlike the Legend, but they were the same price, so hey!

The next day, I looked it up again--lo and behold! Garmin lists it as discontinued. Searching, I found that the Vista and Legend Cx have been replaced by the HCx, which have a new high sensitivity antenna. So, I had to pay $50 more or so, and went with the Legend, but it's supposed to really pull in the signal in "deep cover and canyons."