This one by Casio, http://www.casio.com/watches/product.cfm?section=14&market=0&product=3673 is 1/3 the price but no touchscreen. The Pathfinder series has been around for ages and I've had one through quite a few battery replacements. The thermometer lets you set an offset to compensate for your body temp, but I've always found that it works best if you wear is on the outside of a long sleeve shirt and avoid covering it with a jacket sleeve if possible. Honestly, the one feature that I really like is the barometer. It will log the barometric pressure once an hour for the last 48 hours and display it as a bar graph. Very usefulfor predicting storms and the such while out in the field. The same bar graph can be inverted to show rate of ascent if your climbing. The only problem is that if you are constantly changing your altitude, the barometer's reading is false due to the pressure change. Anyway, I can not complain about it after all these years. It's been dropped, stepped on, ran over, mutilated, frozen, cooked, and otherwise tortured and I have only ever replaced the band and the batteries.