If you are an outdoor enthusiast and you love spending time in places off the beaten track, then you should consider buying the Garmin Rino 120 GPS device.

This neat gadget is specially designed to meet the needs of people who want to concentrate on having fun in their outdoor adventures, rather than being under constant fear that they might either get lost, or, in the case they are not on their own, lose contact with their buddies.

Below I give you the three main reasons why personally think that the Garmin Rino 120 is a worthwhile investment. I hope that after reading my article, you will be in a better position to evaluate your options.

You keep constant contact with your excursion buddies

What is most fascinating about the Garmin Rino 120 is that, apart from gps, it functions as a two-way radio.

So, picture this scenario: You are out on a fishing trip and you decide with your buddies to cover a wide area, to spot the best place to park your gear.

This is very easy when you are all equipped with a Garmin Rino GPS, or you have a standard two-way FRS radio: Provided you have set up your buddies as contacts in your device, you can see each other's locations on the map display real time, by using the position-reporting feature. If you want to talk to them real time and provided you are within a two-mile radius from them, you can do so through a selected FRS channel.

And it gets even better: if you want to go to them, the unit will show you easy to follow directions and even outline the path you have to follow on the display!

It's rugged and waterproof

When you carry a Garmin Rino 120 with you, you don't have to worry you might drop it or get it wet.

Based on positive comments from real users, the unit can withstand very harsh conditions. It is worth mentioning one comment by one of the users: He mentions that he forgot his Garmin in the laundry machine. After he realized and recovered it, he was amazed to see that the unit was still working!

Lots of memory

Another neat feature of the Garmin Rino 120 is that it comes with a massive memory of 8MB. This is more than enough to download road, street, and points-of-interest data from a variety of existing software service providers such as Mapsource Metroguide, Fishing Hot Spots, Topo etc.