I have had an etrex (vista) and it was good

I now have a GPS map 62 with colour contour & street maps for all of Oz & nz and IMHO it's much better

The on-screen maps even have all the obscure firetrails in state forests and national parks - I don't know how they do it

through basecamp you can record (& print out if needed) vertical profiles of walks with times, grades and altitudes shown

This unit also has an "automotive" mode where it can be used for in-car navigation to a waypoint, place or address with the option of changing the display to that similar to the in-car gps units (fortunately no spoken cammands) - it has programmable proximity warning tomes for turns etc - can be set to avoid toll roads etc.