TheCacheCows

quote:Originally posted by smenzel:I have an eTrex Venture and find that the directional arrow (to the waypoint) tends to not update at times. My solution has been to 'refind' the waypoint to update the direction and distance. I've had a similar problem with my Legend. Check which navigation pointer you have selected: Bearing or Course. The Bearing Pointer will continually update to point at the destination. I still don't understand exactly what the course pointer does but its direction doesn't seem to update.

Go buy yourself a $10 compass. The GPSr has the correct bearing to the location it just doesn't know what direction you are traveling.

quote:Originally posted by seneca:I'm interested. How do you get an accurate "set of 'tudes" without a GPSr? (see - now I might learn something!) As Cholo recommended go to lostoutdoors.com. Enter the coordinates of the cache and get either a topo map or satellite photo with the location of the cache highlighted. The cache can then be found relative to fixed landmarks on the topo or photo. The accurate "set of 'tudes" are the fixed land marks: trail junction, stream crossing a trail, top of a hill/knoll, corner of a field, building, etc.