jeepdelfuego

Good luck. But, lost GPSR's never seem to come home. My wife lost a Dakota 10 that showed our address and phone number at startup, and it never came back.

Can you connect a Palm Centro to a Garmin Oregon? Or, a way to have cachemate export to gpx files without the use of a computer?

Try a master reset: Turn off the Oregon, press and hold the upper left corner of the screen and power the unit on. You will eventually be asked if you want to reset user data. If you answer "Yes" the unit will be master reset.

I can't wait for this change!

Yeah, it's kind of weird. Do your search with a "+" between the words. For example: dbase+bad+load

ME!

The geocaches could be loaded on the unit itself, or the SD card. Check the garmin/gpx directory under both.

For those of you that have recently bought an Oregon, or Dakota, BUY A SCREEN PROTECTOR! I use generic ones that have protected mine very well. If I hadn't spent the extra 5-$10, I would own a very scratched up Oregon 200 & 300. Oh, by the way, I am speaking from experience. When the Oregon 200 first came out, I accidentally ordered two of them. I wanted to keep both at the time. So, I walked over to where my wife was across the house and showed it to her to see if she wanted it. She said, "NO WAY, I am never going to use one of those!" Dejected, I put it in my pocket and walked back to my home office about 30ft away. I took out the box, looked for the receipt, and took the GPS out of my pocket. To my horror, it came out all scratched up because I forgot I had my keys in the same pocket. It was an expensive lesson for me. I ended up selling it for $75 less than I had paid for it. As for fixing the scratch, I have yet to come across anyone who has been able to fix a scratch on a touchscreen Oregon, or Dakota.

Between the two, the Pn-20. If price is not a concern, buy any of the Garmin Oregons or Garmin Dakotas.

Who knows, the containers might still be out there. Archived doesn't always mean locked. Great, I was also planning a trip out there in the next few weeks. What a drag! So, who knows what is really happening?

POCKET QUERIES! The last time I checked, I had around 30,000 geocaches downloaded to GSAK. I have pocket queries ready to go for most of the areas that I may end up in, or plan to visit within the next year. Obviously, I am not going to find that many. But, at least I will have a good chance of finding a geocache anywhere I might end up in Southern California, and parts of Nevada and Arizona. Now, I just need to save up for a touchscreen netbook to carry around. I've heard of some people having a worldwide database of geocaches that they have amassed with pocket queries and GSAK. On my Oregon 300, and my wife's Oregon 200, I usually have about 40 pocket queries on the SD card in a directory I have named GPX backup. Our Oregon's are limited to 2000 geocaches. This amounts to about 4 pocket queries. These pocket queries cover my immediate home area. When I happen to go outside of it, I pop the SD card in my phone and move the GPX files around. This eliminates having to plug the unit into a computer. You would be surprised how many phones have a file mgr on them nowadays. This allows me to be able to geocache on a moments notice. As for my donut, it keeps getting larger every month too. But, somebody always manages to hide a cache within a 5 mile radius of my home. I've told geocachers that it is off-limits to them. :-) I consider it my personal space.

You just have to torment me, don't you? Must... resist... (Oregon 300 is barely 6 months old) This price kills me too because I bought a 300 about six weeks ago! But, I am very happy with what I am using.

The Garmin Oregon 450 is $314.00 with free shipping on Amazon right now.

I have an Oregon 200 & Oregon 300. I load my GPX files onto the SD card on both of them. It is always a hit or a miss to have the hang issue. Usually, what I do is take the SD card out and restart the unit without any gpx files. Then, I turn it off, put the SD card back in and everything loads fine. If you put the gpx files on the SD card and get this error in the field it is easy to correct without a computer. Someone once told me that these units load the gpx files into the internal database. So, it would make sense that the database would be wiped clean by booting the units without any gpx files on the SD card or the unit's internal memory. I had a Dakota 10 that would do the same thing. It is annoying, but I have learned to live with it. I wish Garmin would take care of this issue. By the way, my Oregon's have the same issue whether it is a GSAK GPX file, or one from Geocaching.com.

I have over 40 PQ's on my Garmin Oregon 300. They cover mostly Southern California, and parts of Nevada and Arizona. I keep them on my 8GB Micro SD card under a directory I created called Backup GPX. But, I only use 4-6 PQ's at a time with a total of 2000 geocaches. When I travel out of my usual caching area, I don't use my computer to move the PQ's around. I pop the memory card into my phone, which has a file manager, and move them in and out of the garmin/gpx directory. My system would be a lot easier if Garmin would incorporate a file manager into their GPSR's.

For the first 9-10 months that I was caching, my wife hated it! I think she got motivated when I got one of her friends interested in it. Her friend bought an Oregon 550 and went to town with it. I think that knowing that one of her friends was hooked was a big impetus for her to really go out and find geocaches. ____ By the way, I currently have 630+ geocache finds and my wife has 290.

I am not mad. I think it is kind of funny.

I think I just might go get it.

I hid a nano that everyone seems to find. On the 30th of January about 5 different cachers found it. Then, on the next day a newbie cacher writes that he couldn't find the cache and kind of nastily says that I should replace the cache, or de-list the hide. He said that he only found a magnet that seemed to have held the missing geocache. I emailed him back with a link to a picture of a nano cache. He then emails me back that he took it and traded it for some dancing girl at another cache site. I think he needs to get flogged.

She really will be lost all the time with the PN-30 and it's very poor road routing ability. I will guarantee she will want City Navigator back with in a day of using the PN. The PN-40 does road route,but as you said it is not great, but works OK. I know you like an all in one unit, but I just like the PN-40 better than the Oregon 300 and the Dakota 20. The Garmins have the plus for the auto routing but the PN-40 is usable. I also have a Nuvi 500. Thanks Thanks for all of the input. I ended up going with an Oregon 300. I loaded it with the Topo 2008 maps and a free routable map from OSM. I couldn't be happier.

Oregon hands down!

What's wrong with sharing my wife's pocket queries. We live in the same household, and we happen to have two GPS's and screen names. What do you think? When money was flowing in my household, paying thirty bucks a year for a premium membership was no problem. But, 60 dollars for two memberships is a large sum of money to us now. My December paycheck was only $54. Hmm, what should I do to quench my geocaching addiction? Load them one by one?

Got the link? Sounds like a scam as I didn't think Garmin made a North America & Mexico CN preprogrammed datacard, let alone a 2010 CNMX version. Here is the link: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...e=STRK:MEWAX:IT

I saw the following for $44 on Ebay: Garmin City Navigator 2010 NT North America & Mexico - 2GB Card - Plenty of room for tons of pics and more Route to wherever you want to go! Does this seem legit?

Lots of free maps available for the Garmin's out there at gpsfiledepot.com and other places - even some routable maps. Would it be possible to get a routable map for California?