I recently bought a Garmin Oregon 600t and installed the Basecamp software. My frustration level has now hit a peak and I apologize if this has been answered in another thread but I cant seem to find the answer I am looking for.
With the Oregon 600t I have the TOPO US 100K map. I am trying to plan a simple 2 way point 3.1 mile one way hiking trip on a trail in Rocky Mountain National Park. I placed the waypoints I want to use and tell Basecamp that I am hiking. Instead of taking me the 1.5 miles on the hiking trail that I can see on the map. Basecamp wants me to go 2 miles south of my trail over a 9000ft mountain to get near a main highway. It has me walk up the highway then walk straight north back over the 9000ft mountain to get to my first waypoint which is a trail split. Then Basecamp wants me to backtrack over the 9000ft mountain again to the highway, walk up the highway a little more, then cross over a different 9000ft+ mountain to get to my destination.
While I imagine there would be some awesome scenery associate with this hike it doesn't exactly sound like the fun morning hike I am trying to plan. I would assume that by telling Basecamp I am hiking it would follow the hiking trail on the map. (Basecamp sees the hiking trails and even gives me a little hiking guy sign to show me it sees hiking trails on the map)
Looking through the forums I have found people saying that Basecamp is defaulting to following roads no matter what profile you tell it to use. A work around Im finding is direct route which cuts down on the bad routing but it still wont follow the trail.
So this leads me to my question. Is there a way for me to tell Basecamp that I want to hike this established trail, set my waypoints, and have basecamp set my route up to follow this trail and not draw direct straight as the crow flies lines between my way points?
The whole reason I spent almost $500 on a GPS unit is to make sure I don't get lost while hiking these trails. I chose Garmin because of the videos about Basecamp I saw online where the narrator simply drops his points on the map and Basecamp follows the trail (or road if your in driving mode) and makes him the route he wants.
If Basecamp/Garmin doesn't have that ability I hope I can return this unit still because it clearly is not going to do what I want it to.
Thanks in advance for the help.
