Additional Features; Tracing Your Steps - Magellan eXplorist XL Reference Manual

Using the eXplorist XL

Tracing Your Steps

Hikers, mountain bikers and outdoor enthusiasts often need the option of leaving a trail of breadcrumbs that
they can follow back to where they started. The eXplorist has a feature called BackTrack that enables you to
do just that.
It was mentioned earlier that your eXplorist is constantly computing your present position and that you can
save your position by using the MARK button. Now imagine that your eXplorist automatically saved your com-
puted positions as you moved along the trail. Pretty soon there would be a set of saved positions, like bread-
crumbs, that represents the trail you have taken. This is exactly what the eXplorist does. It saves the
computed positions as hidden points of interest and strings them together to represent your travels. This is
called your Track and the hidden points of interest are your Track Log.
What your eXplorist enables you to do, is to use this Track, reverse it and navigate you along the same path you
followed to get you back to your destination.
You might drive to the ranger station and follow the trail that leads you to the waterfalls you have been wanting
to see. With your eXplorist turned on and able to compute position fixes, you continue along the trail. The
trail winds along and has many smaller trails attached to it and as the day progresses you arrive at the falls.
When it's time to head back to your car, you access your Track Logs list and select the Active Track log. Now
press MENU, highlight BackTrack and press ENTER. Your eXplorist will now seamlessly guide you along the
path, tracing your footsteps, back to where you started.
Another nice feature of Track Logs that you may find useful, is that you are able to save the Track Logs and
recall them at any time. In the above example, when you were at the waterfall, you could save that track and
use it anytime you wanted to go back again.

Additional Features

Your Magellan eXplorist contains all the features you would expect from a high-quality Magellan brand hand-
held navigation device as well as many more to make your outdoor experience more enjoyable. You have the
ability to customize the navigation screens, enabling you to view the information that is important to you. The
eXplorist makes full use of the Map screens enabling you to graphically see your position, the route you are
navigating on, the path that you have trekked (Track), as well as points of interest icons. There is a built-in
odometer so you can log the length of your journey. User preferences enable you to set up and maintain your
eXplorist so that it fits your needs and requirements. The eXplorist gives you all of this and more in an easy-to-
use, portable navigation tool that includes built-in help files that you can access in the great outdoors.
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