Incredibly Annoying: BaseCamp Failures

Former Member
Former Member

My Gear: MacBook Pro 16" (2019) running Catalina. Awesome computer.

Garmin GPSMAP 66i: love this thing

Garmin BaseCamp: the bain of my existence (or whatever they say like that)

This UI is terrible. Garmin, I love you, but man, hire some computer people. It's 2020 and give us the Oregon Trail version of trip planning software??? Eesh.

First I get this, when opening up BirdsEye:

Afterward, (dozens of tries) RETRY RETRY RETRY RETRY over and over, I get this:

Then of course it takes a while to NOT have a communication failure, but we get there... 

I FINALLY get the square mileage correct for my selected Birdseye request (I apparently am WAY too greedy)...

Then it takes forever to "Verify" which never happens... so I start all over.

I have made a mistake investing in Garmin so much. I need this to work.