Suunto Review

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Kifaru International

Wilderness, Sports, Sports:wilderness, Education

4.9 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2017

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Suunto Review Aron reviews the Suunto Traverse Alpha and the Suunto Core Traverse Alpha "Suunto Traverse Alpha combines strong build quality with a full set of outdoor features. It is your guide in the wild, keeping you on track with GPS/GLONASS navigation. Specific fishing and hunting features provide useful tools for your activity, including moon phase calendar, shot detection, sunrise alert, weather trend, and red backlight for nighttime use. Plan your routes and keep a diary of your fishing and hunting trips with Suunto Movescount." Suunto Core "Designed to be your reliable companion wherever you go, the essence of the great outdoors is distilled into Suunto Core. Combining an altimeter, barometer and a compass with weather information, it will bring out the explorer in you."

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0:00.0	Alrighty, I'm back without Frank Frank ran over to get I believe a burrito
0:05.2	kombucha and some peanut butter bars
0:08.4	What a good guy, right? So I'm gonna knock out this kind of review for the Suntok Traverse Alpha
0:16.0	I've been using it for a while and I'm liking it
0:19.7	There's some pros and cons to it. I have to say the
0:24.2	The cons I figured out how to
0:27.9	Fix those which was the the the altimeter was a was an issue on my Suntos, but I talked with Suntok and they fixed it up so
0:38.4	I would definitely suggest this watch I was using
0:42.3	Garmin 401 Fortrex for forever basically and I love that thing
0:48.1	It's got some downsides the size of it for one. It is a wrist watch
0:53.4	Type of a deal, but it takes double a batteries and it does burn through the batteries pretty quickly
0:58.7	And it is big, but what I used it for since I manually land nav
1:04.6	For the most part is is just getting an eight or a 10 digit grid coordinate
1:09.0	So I can plot it out on a map as well as marking my camp or or any important
1:15.8	You know landmark, I guess you could say or a dead elk or whatever
1:20.2	And once I've marked that I can get back to it, you know, I'll I can I can basically
1:26.7	Set that grid quarter or set that waypoint
1:30.3	You know say find this waypoint and it'll tell me
1:34.3	You know, you need to head north northwest
1:37.2	For 1.23 miles and then I'll follow a Suntos. It's an M9
1:43.8	Normal compass wristwatch compass and I'll follow that compass to get there
1:47.4	Is I get closer at homes it down a little bit more?
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