lee737

I generally need to choose kid-friendly caches.... as much as I'd love to go on 10km hikes into the bush to find terrain 4-5 hides, I need to choose carefully as to what a 6 and 3 year old can manage with me....

No problem going back and logging Finds on the individual account, but you should be aware of the Terms of Use of the site...just an FYI: Good luck with your caching. Thanks - I suppose it would really be my wifes account, since it was bought with her appleID.... I guess we need to start inputting all our finds....

What is the accepted practice here? My son (6 yo) and I have been geocaching for 10 months, we've found 50 finds together, using my account. Now he has his own account on his iPad.... can we log the finds we have found together on his now - ie the ones we found over the last several months?? I've done the last half a dozen we did over the past week or two already.... Lee

Visit as often as you want.... you don't *have* to sign the log each time, I doubt anyone would worry if you did though - you can only log a visit online once though......

I've read the Garmin will still only show those caches within 100km of your position - have you tried with local caches?

I'm thinking about a GPSr for xmas, would be used for geocaching - I've had a little Garmin Geko 201 for some years, and just use my iPhone currently. I'm a definite gadget freak, so aren't after a bargain model, but also don't want the newest full-of-bugs one either.... Where should I be looking in terms of stability, happy to spend up to a grand if needed. I do like the size factor of the Magellan 710 - is it easy to integrate with geocaching.com? If given a choice with equal features would take buttons over touch screen, but aren't totally against touch screens.... Any opinions?? Lee

Wouldn't be hard - just a microcontroller chip and a GPS chip with an LCD display should be able to give you a co-ordinate readout, some programming skill should be able to give you a heading/distance reading.... Unless you are very savvy it would be pretty basic (and probably bulky!).... the May 2014 Silicon Chip magazine here in Australia showed how to interface one particular MCU to a GPS to get the time readout, wouldn't be hard to get the position. I agree it would likely cost you more, and you'd spend a chunk of GC time mucking about doing it, but it could be a good learning exercise.... Lee