Americana Outdoors E-Magazine - August 2020

user enables inReach Tracking, friends and family wanting to follow along can view the user’s location at any time throughout their journey. Outdoor enthusiasts can use the Montana 700i/750i to trigger an interactive SOS for emergency help from a 24/7 GEOS International Emergency Response Coordination Center. A world leader in emergency response solutions and monitoring, GEOS will alert emergency responders and provide updates to the user’s key contacts, while also continuing to message back and forth with the user, until the situation is resolved. To access the Iridiumnetwork and communicate with inReach enabled Montana devices, an active satellite subscription is required. A variety of subscription plans are available for both individuals and professional services from flexible month to month options to annual plans. Each device in the new Montana 700 series offers Wi-Fi® connectivity, ANT+® technology and Bluetooth wireless technology for easy wireless updates and allows users to pair with the Garmin Explore™ app to plan trips, sync waypoints, tracks, and courses, create collections, review your activities and more. Before heading out on an adventure, users can download high-resolution satellite imagery onto the Montana via Wi-Fi, and those photo realistic views can be also be used offline. All of the new Montana handhelds are water-resistant 2 and tested to U.S. military standards (MIL-STD-810), making them ready for any adventure. Access to both GPS and Galileo satellite networks plus a 3-axis compass and barometric altimeter allows these handhelds to track in more challenging environments than GPS alone. Friends and family can use the web-based MapShare™ trip-sharing page to follow along with the adventure from home and view progress, ping a device to see a GPS location of the user and exchange messages during the trip. An 8-megapixel camera in the Montana 750i 3 lets explorers take photos on the go. The device will geotag photos with coordinates so users can easily navigate back to favorite sites in the future. Trek far

In case of emergency, trigger an interactive SOSmessage to GEOS, a professional 24/7 global monitoring and response center (active satellite subscription required).

Optional display of federal public land boundaries on topographical maps helps you know that you’re venturing where you’re supposed to be.

To navigate your adventures, use preloaded topographical maps for the U.S. and Canada. View terrain contours, elevations, coastlines, rivers, landmarks and more.