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Several Garmin GPSes work well with Ubuntu as a mass USB storage device. Navigating the menu to enable the mass USB device can be a bit of a headache. Here is an alternative that takes less fumbling with the joyclick on the Garmin and that does a better job of grabbing the data.

gpsbabel does many wonderful and magical things for us as far as format conversion, but also can handle communication with the device for us. For example this tip from txwikinger:

gpsbabel -t -w -i garmin -f usb: -o gpx -F yourfilename.gpx
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