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I was going to say Etrex 30x BUT searching around the a*n site, getting more scarce and can't find one at the cheaper prices that were out there a few months ago. Around $180 on a*n now, when they were going for $120-140 back in May suggesting they are running out of them in supply. GPSMAP 64 prices have also gone up quite a bit since May. could also be a supply problem. Oregon 700 prices though have dropped quite a bit, around $210, and at that price, that's the one for the best price value to features I can recommend. The etrex 10 is about 80 bucks now. It's got quite a few limitations but if you wan a rugged handheld where batteries just keep going and going and can deal with a 1,000 geocache limit and no mapping, it's a good unit, especially if you use a cellphone as navigation to caches for mapping. It's as accurate as you can get.

Not sure what sub-forum to post on here, but I wonder how this affects geocachers who still use Garmin GPSr units? Apparently Garmin's entire infrastructure has been affected by ransomware. Might be of interest to some geocachers. (Please move to another sub-forum if not appropriate for here). https://www.androidcentral.com/garmin-connect-suffers-multi-hour-outage At first, the company tried to brush it as a maintenance issue that was being quickly addressed. As the hours stretched on, it eventually admitted it was suffering an outage that affected almost every consumer-facing area, including its app, site, and even customer support centers.

WINE hasn't really improved in years, and I can get GSAK kind of working it, it's like taking your computer and putting it on 1/10th speed. If you run Linux, as others have said, putting Windows 7 or above in a VM and runnning GSAK that way is far better. You can also use Garmin Basecamp in Windows 7 or above on a VM, basecamp won't even install on WINE. Tried using Ubuntu, Lubuntu, and Debian 10 on both those software. Maybe a tad off subject, but WINE can do a few things Windows 10 can't do, like run older 16 bit programs or stuff optimized for Windows 98/95

If you don't need bluetooth auto-loading of geocaches from your phone or a wifi connection, the Garmin 64s probably makes for an excellent replacement for about $100 cheaper than it's 66s younger brother. Garmin 30x is really cheap these days and gives you all the goodies (except bluetooth) but a smaller size than the 60/62/64/66 series (which can be a plus or minus) The reason Garmin 700 and 66 series got bad reviews is because they deserved them at the time they came out. Garmin has gotten into a nasty habit of putting out products that are not ready, full of bugs, and honestly should be treated as betas... After a few months, Garmin always does get these bugs worked out but first impressions mean everything...

They had some good categories that were somewhat of a challenge like "Find a Yellow Jeep" but some others were as simple as "Find a flag pole". It was putting Groundspeak into having to "judge" submissions for locationless.

Etrex 30x is about $130 and just as accurate as a $400+ GPS unit.

My opinion if you want a handheld GPSr very reasonably priced these days is the Etrex 30x which does everything (except garmin chirp) and can be had at around $130.. It's not touchscreen though. The cheapest touchscreen on the market is probably the Etrex 25

Actually the older log is still in there, it's just full and I didn't photograph it in the picture. It's possible someone did a throw down in the past, I don't know. But others have said just put down a new cache in the same spot... Which honestly, is "just for the numbers" kind of answer. My point is if the geocaches are still being actively found, why archive them which will create geo-litter? Once it's permanently archived, no one is going to know the container is there thus won't get picked up. I know but if it's archived, I'll quickly forget about it. Like I said, before permanently archived, the reviewers can take a peek and determine if they are still being found and perhaps allow them to remain if they still viable caches.

Thanks. I did send an email to the owner offering to adopt it. I'm not saying veer from the project but perhaps tweak it before completely archiving the caches. Geo-litter being one of the concerns.

I found one of those archived recently since I had it on my GPS unit and it was in fine shape. While I understand what they are doing, if the caches are in good shape and still being found on a regular basis, especially a level 1 terrain in a wooded rural area, I would like to it the formula perhaps tweaked (I did offer to adopt the cache). https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC4JR94_squirrel I also took a photo of it as proof it is fine where it is. This one has had over 20 different finds over the past several months.

Almost a clone of the 62s software and hardware wise except for the patch antenna the 78s uses versus the 62s quad-helix antenna. They share the same firmware updates. But the 78s floats and can be had at a really good price now.

Negative. Because the N XX XX.xxx format can not be within a centimeter of being accurate on it's own, it would have to be N XX XX.xxxxxx (6 digits) format to start with to have centimeter accuracy. Example N 45° 28.888 W 100° 01.111 to N 45° 28.889 W 100° 01.112 is about 2 meters or 200 centimeters. N 45 28.8885 would be about 100 centimeters from N 45 28.888 ....

Both have their place in the game, the phone has the advantage of being much easier to do puzzles like A is this number, B is this number because you can switch from your app to notepad and back while a GPSr, you pretty much have to use another device or write down the information. A phone also allows you to easily go through all the logs, photos, and to log instantly from the app. Just much larger size of the phone makes it easier on the eyes to read cache descriptions. And of course with a phone, most of the time you don't have to download geocaches, just grab the phone and go out. Spoken directions to your cache via maps, something even the highest end GPSr's don't have. No need to worry about pocket queries most of the time. It's just an era where phones rule. GPSr though better if it is raining, or you need long battery life without hauling around a battery brick for your phone or a device that you don't cringe if dropped, and everyone drops their GPSr or phone, or like me, drop it all the time. I personally, prefer the GPSr, but more because I am old school geocacher. That said, I will probably never buy another GPSr unit again. The accuracy of even a $50 un-activated phone GPS will get you to the spot where the geocache is so accuracy really isn't a factor anymore.

$169 for a GPSMAP 64st is one heck of a bargain and if I were to buy another unit, at that price point, I would snatch it up in a second.

Our local Dollar Tree is selling them for a dollar a piece under the guise of 15 erasers. AliExpress sells them for pennies a piece but you got to buy like 10,000 of them to get that price.

A Garmin GPSMAP 64s would be an excellent choice for the price point. There's a bit of a learning curve with any handheld GPSr if you have never owned one. Really good deals out there on the Etrex 30x which has a smaller screen but about $50 cheaper currently. The only Garmin unit I would say to avoid is the Etrex 10, it's just too limited. The advice given to look at the units at a store is sound although getting harder to harder to find outside a specialty store like Cabela's or REI.

One thing to note, is how people geocache today versus that of say, 7 years ago. Most now simply use their phone and an app, however, I found that solving puzzles is much harder using a phone versus going on a PC in my opinion. A lot of apps (geocaching. C:GEO etc) don't really play nice with true puzzle caches. With a PC, you have the cache on one tab and simply open another tab to search the information, or to do things like view html code easily. With a phone, even the process of checking a website requires you to get out of your geocaching app and into a web browser app, etc. etc.

If you want a classic and it's still up. Before Groundspeak had maps, the site below had a map of them. https://www.brillig.com/geocaching/maps.shtml If you use it in combination with the Archive Machine, it will give you very detailed maps of how geocaching was like in 2002, 2003, 2004 https://web.archive.org/web/20011220221559/https://www.brillig.com/geocaching/united_states.shtml Snapshot of all the geocaches in South Carolina on Jun 2001 https://web.archive.org/web/20011113013343/http://www.brillig.com/geocaching/south_carolina.shtml eventually Groundspeak got their own maps, Brillig got the DMCA to stop their maps.... But it was a very valuable tool at the time.

They just released the new Etrex 22x and 32x just a few months ago, (EDIT. Also the 64x series) without hardly any fanfare at all. The 66 series was introduced a year ago. I think the 22x and 32x now come with routing topo maps standard for free.

Etrex 22x and 32x comes with the routable topo map while the 20x and 30x did not. No upgrade on the Etrex 10 which would cost them only pennies to upgrade to more RAM to store more geocaches. But maybe that is the point in that line, to make you purchase up.

I now get this for a time on my unit, took it out at 1:38am April 20. Time and date now says April 7, 2019 but a time of 11:10am It's an Etrex yellow original.

Fired up both the Magellan Explorist 100 and the original Etrex yellow out of storage today. Once they locked in to the satellites, the dates were correct April 6th, 2019 but both were off by an hour, probably due to the old daylight savings time. So no problems on those two units.

Magellan actually stopped producing handheld GPS units a couple of years ago, what they have been selling since 2014 is excess stock. Only the NEW Explorist GC/x10 series works well with geocaching these days as you can simply cut and paste gpx into those units. But even with that, the maps on the Explorist are very old (around 2008 is the mapping they used) and zero support from Magellan and geocaching.com itself. I think what did in Magellan is having multiple owners and outsourcing all their development and support to 3rd party companies, then cutting off the contracts with those companies. Magellan still makes car GPS units, which in itself is quickly dying out. Basically the market for handheld GPS units has dried up with Garmin being the only one left due to smartphones being so easy to use for geocaching now. As someone posted, it's all about fitness apps now and there are a lot of competitors for those.

Excessive logs make it hard on those who still use a GPSr, especially one like the 64s or Etrex where you have having to hit the page down button like 20 times just to see the next log. Yea, it's a "badge" that can be earned on 3rd party sites like project-gc (they are an official partner of GS so I feel they can be mentioned) and that's why it is done.

Not a lawyer, only a qualified lawyer really can answer your answer. But I'll give an opinion. I would say no because you were not negligent unless you owned the snake, or had knowledge that a snake den was active, or if you knew the property owner owned the snake. Now, if she were bitten by a dog owned or controlled by the owner of the property, then perhaps you could face a lawsuit because of negligence if you had the knowledge of a dog. Suggestion. email legal@Groundspeak.com and ask their opinion, they maintain a full time lawyer on staff. They might be able to give you a legal opinion