Navigating Tracks on a Garmin Geko

Slideshow

We will set a Garmin Geko 201 to navigate a track
We will start from my house (red arrow)
We will go clockwise for two corners
then come back



Wait for lock-on

(Alternative screen)

Locked-on at
11m accuracy

Next+next menu
(Old data)

Next menu
We want "TRACKS"

We want
05-NOV-11

Choose track
05-NOV-11
in this case

Choose
NAVIGATE
Begin/End

Choose
TO END

Should have
walked further
from the start!

Try again.
Steer right
45.6m to go

Steer right
23.7m to go

Crossed junction
diagonally.
In side-road

Crossed
side-road.
Other pavement

Turned
into
footpath

Slight kink in footpath

Stopped.
Zoom-out.
(To let you see whole route)

Zoom-in
again.
Turning back.
Going home.

Crossing
side-road

Turning left
on original
road

Home now.
Paused at
gate-post

GPS saying
"should be
220m to left"
 
Why?

Who forgot
to zero
the odometer?

Part-way
though
saving track

 

Just saved
20-NOV-11
track

 

Maybe not
good news

Definitely
bad news

A brilliant
start screen!
Has got my GPS back
on one occasion