FULL REVIEW:: https://hikingguy.com/hiking-gear/garmin-fenix-3-review-hiking-gps/
The Garmin Fenix 3 is my favorite piece of hiking gear, bar none. It’s like having an outdoors smartphone on my wrist, 24/7. The Fenix 3 has hundreds of features. Here’s what’s good, what’s not, and why you should get this awesome hiking watch.
Full review on my blog:
https://hikingguy.com/hiking-gear/garmin-fenix-3-review-hiking-gps/
Price: $149.99
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@hikingguy.com Great video and very informative. Just an FYI, there is a channel by a guy named Ryan Daniel that is using your video as his own. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DVveb41-wE
Thanks for the video, Does it have elevation details too? I am regular mountaineering and Elevation is what i am looking for too so i will know where about in the highest elevation i am now and how close to the summit too.
Hi! I’m a runner. My Samsung tracks the path I have run and tells me roughly how far I’ve gone based on that. Does this watch have a feature like This? If not can you please recommend something?
Do you have strava man? Id like to follow you.
hey there. do you know how to change the GPS grid in the watch depending on the fiscal map one is navigating by?
Great video mate :0 Im subbed, keep up the good work 🙂
Does this watch have an altimeter? Thanks.
Is there a way to build routes based on a series of Geographic coordinates? Im having trouble trying to use the “course” functionality to this end.
Hello
Can you tell me if it will work with SportTrack software ..?
How about battery life using glonass on …?
Thank you ;))
Very good review A plus
I have a question about the alarm feature. Is it possible to set multiple alarms directly on the watch? Also, can I use the phone app to customize the phone features (screens, alarms, settings, etc) or is customization ONLY be done on the watch?
where do you download trail map and how do you upload them?
I have been using it from the day one. Excellent watch. Just not only for hiking, swimming or running its also great as a smartwatch. Great review.
My fenix 3 in hiking sucks, the trail is correct but if i stop, the distance keeps growing, does it happen the same to you? This causes me to have a good few miles more then the reality.
Thank you so much for the links, i wasn’t being lazy it’s just that i didn’t look into it that much and wondered if you have the experience of using the watch as a sat nav, again many thanks very interested in this watch thanks to your video.
Can the Fenix 3 compare times/distance on previous workouts as you are hiking/running? Basically I want to know if I am ahead or behind my previous time on mountain routes I regularly climb. Does it also give audible alerts? For example, telling you the time you have taken at each mile in the hike.
Hi, i am interested in this watch for hiking mainly to photographic spots, is the gps tracker as you showed on this video any good, as you showed going off course it corrects back when you go back on original track?
I don’t know if your from California, but it really looks like you are in Bakersfield lol
Hello. You looks like a man which knows alot about Garmin Fenix 3. I’m very interesting about this model, but I’m worry about GPS tracking accuracy. For way tracking I’m using Endomondo. So, one day I was on the hike trip in mountains with my friend which using Garmin Fenix 3. On the finish we compare our results… Endomondo (as the paper map) showed 25,4 km and the Garmin Fenix 3 – 31,53 km. So, at home I compared our ways on the PC… Feels like the Fenix sometimes det lost. Do you catch sight of it with your Garmin?
Garmin Fenix 3 Way on the APP – https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/1246909038
The same way on Endomondo – https://www.endomondo.com/users/17719819/workouts/761976002
For hiking : How do you add encumberance weight (pack weight) into the watch to more accurately record fitness statistics?
How do you track sleep and still charge the battery? Don’t you leave the watch on the charger overnight? How does that work? Thanks
Hey, I understand if this is too specific of a question to have an answer to, but is it possibly to load up a map of say the entire John Muir trail and then track your route on the watch? Thanks for your time!
If I get the watch would I be able to pin my camp’s location from my campsite?
Thanks for your review and website article. I am mainly interested in hiking & backpacking so this helped.
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I am currently looking for this kind of gps watch, and my 2 choices are the Fenix 3 and the ambit 3. Was the Ambit 3 also for you a possible choice? And if so what where the reasons why you chose the Fenix 3?
I generally hike in dense forest where cell phones aren’t even close to picking up a signal. Should i be worried about the GPS signal?
This is my favorite overall review of the Fēnix 3 when it comes to hiking. Your video was a big reason I bought this awesome watch! Thanks!
Great watch. If you own the Fenix and are on Strava, join the Fenix Users club there: https://www.strava.com/clubs/garminfenixusers
Can you change the overlay of the maps?
I like this watch but I think I’m going to hold out for the casio smartwatch.
How far can you go using breadcrumbs feature ? Can you go for at least couple for miles ?
Thank you
I just watched your video,I love it.my company also produce smart watch,can you make a video for us in YouTube?
I don’t know if your from California, but it really looks like you are in Bakersfield lol
What about a trackback feature like on Suunto?
If I get lost in the bush, can I just click a button and know which paths I took?
Does this watch actually measure your heart rate? I like the GPS feature on it though I wonder how accurate and well that feature might work when you are hiking trailers through woods etc. I am just getting into hiking this year and would like to find a watch that can record your heart rate, routes and might even given you the option to review your hiking online.
Can it show live coordinates? And can I enter a coordinate waypoint into the watch itself or a phone?
What is more reliable and hard built, the suunto traverse or the Fenix 3? I’m just gonna use it for hiking and wilderness trekking. I don’t care much for the fitness apps that the Garmin excels in
How is it for being out on the water ? (e.g. kayaking)
really what i want is to see if i can input geographic co-ordinates into the watch as i use the photographers ephemeris to scout and locate places? so if i input the coordinates data, will the watch then navigate me to that set place? Great video by the way and many thanks for the really quick response..