[pct-l] Lets Talk High-End Watches

[AsABat]

I have the Suunto Vector and like it, so I would not hesitate to buy the Suunto Core. 

Any of these altimeters work by changes in barometric pressure so if the weather is changing their accuracy drops. You mitigate this by resetting the altimeter periodically at known elevations. This is easy as the guidebooks have the elevations. I use the altimeter to monitor my progress to a destination. If I have 600 feet to climb and the altimeter days I'm climbing 12 feet I know I will be there in 50 minutes (assuming a steady grade).

The only thing not so useful to me is the thermometer. While wearing the watch it gives the temperature at my wrist, often much higher than air. Often it is above 85 degrees. I can take off the watch but then worry about leaving it behind. But I don't care about the temp much. 

AsABat
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"John Abela" <pacificcresttrail2011 at gmail.com> wrote:

>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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