That’s a bit harsh to give someone 6 months in jail for not using a GPS tracker/locator, but I see where you are coming from. A lot of places require a permit before you hike into the backcountry area, so just make a GPS locator a needed item in order to get approved for your permit. If you don’t have one then get the Rangers some and have them rent them out for a tiny bit of money.

Instead of throwing a shabby contact list in they have added it to be updated in the near future. They want to make sure that it will work really well and not just be a generic and hard=to-use contact list. It sounds simple when looking at phones and computers, but with a GPS tracker, it needs to be designed differently. I am a huge fanboy of Garmin and could not be more excited that they released this one!

I seriously don’t understand why they didn’t build in a contacts list for messages. This is basic stuff here. This will be updated to include it in the future so I would still suggest picking one up if you can afford to, but it is frustrating they didn’t release it with it yet.

Not sure if the batteries can easily be swapped but I recommend you just carry a powerbank with you to charge it. An extra battery for the Garmin GPSMap 66i can only be used for the Garmin, but if you have a battery bank it can charge your Garmin as well as your cell phone and other electronic devices.