just bought a garmin oregon 450, and so far, i can't figure out basecamp. i am going on a backpacking trip soon and have planned my route on a map, and now want to follow this route on my oregon 450. supposedly, you can create a route with basecamp, but this software is absolutely horrible in terms of ease of use. no manuals, no help, nothing!
the "new route" tool is useless. all it lets me do is select a start and end point and then it creates the shortest route between the 2 points, along whatever trail it wants to. yes, i know there is an option to choose between the shortest route, literally a straight line, and the other option just creates a route that follows a road or trail, usiang the shortest route to the end point. this is useless for backpacking. seriously, who wants the shortest route? i want to create my OWN route, where i specify. that's the point of being able to create your own route, and i just don't see how this is done.
i have tried to drag the route to go along the trails i want it to, but after selecting every tool in the tool bar, i have come to the conclusion that none of them allow you to change this route. i have messed around with the options but none of them seem relevant to what i am doing.
i have also tried creating several waypoints, but there is no way to connect them MANUALLY, because if you try to create a route using the waypoints themselves, it just chooses the shortest route. this should not be so hard! is the software really this bad, or am i missing something? is there any other software available that can easily create a route that i can create and upload to my gps so that i can follow it while on the trail?
