Garmin 010-01735-10 inReach Explorer+, Handheld Satellite Communicator with Topo Maps and GPS Navigation

Really easy to set up, has so far provided an amazing tool for wild camping/hiking, completely lets you go out in the bush with ease as you dont have to worry about being out of cell service. Have kept in contact with friends/family easily and the GPS mapping is awesome. Really would recommend - very reliable, great battery life, lets you feel secure and connected even in the heart of Yukon wilderness, makes it easy to plan a trip, easy to follow. Also, once you make the initial investment, the monthly plans are VERY reasonable for what you get. AMAZING! Looking forward to using it more :)

Quick set up!

Hiking, wilderness backcountry trips

We purchased this GPS to use in our helicopter so that my wife can track it from home. It doesnt connect with the app very well . The setting are complicated. If you are using the gps only its working fine but you need to use it open sky. Inside the helicopter it loosing the connection often.

Before my father left for a sheep hunt 45 miles from the nearest civilization in northern Canada, he was given this GPS as a birthday gift. After a successful hunt & 1 of the 3 day horseback ride journey back into town they set up camp for the night. It wasn’t until the morning when they woke up unable to breathe from smoke that they realized a Forrest fire was enclosing in on them from all directions. A simple text to my mom that read “I can’t breathe” and the “SOS” call saved his life sending search and rescue helicopters in & pulling him and his crew out just hours before the fire enclosed and burned his camp. I forever owe the survival of my father to this device. It is worth every penny.

Made it down the Grand Canyon. This is a perfect step down from a sat phone. The plans costs are reasonable, and you can text with your smartphone anywhere with a semi-clesr sky. I kayaked with this in my PFD and it was wet for nearly the entire 22 day winter trip. So the waterproofness gets an A++.

We used this every night to send messages back to our families as we traveled from Chicago to the southern tip of South America. Never gave us a problem.... except for that one time when it said we were in the Dominic Republic of Congo... that freaked my parents out... but.. 99.99% of the time it has been amazing to be able to text family and provide a track that we can look back on to see exactly where we were.

Payed for year subscription went through inreach registration, Device can not locate a GPS signal and stuck on activation waiting for conformation. A Lot of money for a defective product. Calling Garmin on Monday. Garmin Customer service only open Monday-Friday.

Great product and service. Could be a lifesaver when hiking or 4x4ing in the back country

Disappointed because when we went to register the product we found out it had been registered and used by someone else and was being sold as a new product. We were unable to register it unless the previous owner deactivated so we had to send it back.