Comments on: Garmin Montana 700i GPS Review https://packandtrail.com/blog/garmin-montana-700i-gps-review/ Outdoor Gear Reviews Thu, 17 Jul 2025 00:57:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Ross Collicutt https://packandtrail.com/blog/garmin-montana-700i-gps-review/#comment-12711 Sat, 26 Aug 2023 17:25:42 +0000 https://pureoutside.rosscollicutt.com/?p=927#comment-12711 In reply to Brandon Whallon.

Hey Brandon, could you send me the tracks? I’ll check it out. I found some tracks I had to add twice to my unit. Not sure why. Have you tried adding them through Garmin Basecamp?

]]> By: Brandon Whallon https://packandtrail.com/blog/garmin-montana-700i-gps-review/#comment-11528 Sun, 30 Jul 2023 16:46:13 +0000 https://pureoutside.rosscollicutt.com/?p=927#comment-11528 I have a Montana 700i, and I use it for riding the Backcountry Discovery Routes “BDR”, and I recently had a tough go of it on the Idaho BDR. I had imported the .gpx files directly from the BDR website, dropped them into my GPX folder, but I could never get the individual tracks to show up on my unit. I was doing the route North to South, when the route is intended to run South to North. That had me running counter to a lot of the BDR participants. As I told them of my “these tracks are not showing up on my screen”, and each and everyone of them said “let me see that thing. All you gotta do is select which track you want, pick the color, turn the track “on”, tell it to “Go”, and the track will show up”.

At least 15 people tried, and within 5 minutes, they all handed it back, and said “I have no idea why these tracks are not showing up.

I finished the IDBDR using a paper map.

What local sources are available to sit down and talk to somebody about this GPS unit? What services does Garmin provide? I watch the videos on YouTube, but my unit does not follow the prompts that are given in the videos.

]]> By: mike marcoux https://packandtrail.com/blog/garmin-montana-700i-gps-review/#comment-4486 Fri, 09 Dec 2022 17:45:21 +0000 https://pureoutside.rosscollicutt.com/?p=927#comment-4486 In reply to Peter.

You need to stay connect to 12 volts Ram mount all the time on winter
I ride ski doo all the winter and my 700 work werygood only when is connect to 12 volts

]]> By: Ross Collicutt https://packandtrail.com/blog/garmin-montana-700i-gps-review/#comment-2107 Sun, 01 May 2022 18:19:08 +0000 https://pureoutside.rosscollicutt.com/?p=927#comment-2107 In reply to Peter.

Do you know what the windchill was while you were riding Peter? One workaround would be to have it in your jacket but not out on the dash. I would get in touch with Garmin because they should last longer at -10.

]]> By: Peter https://packandtrail.com/blog/garmin-montana-700i-gps-review/#comment-1615 Wed, 23 Mar 2022 17:55:01 +0000 https://pureoutside.rosscollicutt.com/?p=927#comment-1615 My 700 shutdown at -10 on my ski doo trip. Is there a fix for this besides warm weather?

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