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GPS, stands for Global Positioning System, is a satellite navigation system which is space based and provides the user about time information along with location allocation. It can give you weather information at any corner of the world you are staying at the moment. It is vastly used by the military forces and commercial users around the whole world. It is such a device that can give you direction to your desired destination and progressive report about your performance.

In hiking, GPS is considered as one of the most important hiking gears for its capability of working. If you take a GPS and get out for hiking, it will make your hiking more accurate and give you proper direction for going in the right place. It will make you come back in the shortest way. All the time it will provide you information so that you will never be lost. When you select your GPS for hiking, you have to take attention about two things. One of them is its navigation system and another is its reception quality. When you go to market for buying GPS, you should look for some other main features. The features that you should be looking for are given below.

Features of best hiking GPS:

Barometer
Memory
Color screen
Interface
Sensible chipset
Camera
Wireless service
Battery life
Radio
Mapping software
Satellite tracker

Here, I will give you some information about the best GPS for hiking in 2013. The list with their proper information for you is as follows.

Garmin Foretrex 401 GPS

Features:

Keeps routing tracks and waypoints
Dual position readout supporter
LCD display
Easy tracker
Multiple formats for viewing location
Improved performance in deep forest or canyon or in mountain
High sensitive features of hot fix