lare58

Well I hope that I can fit that bill, I found out about Geocaching from a friend who had heard about it from somewhere, while I was visiting AZ. I got back to IL and started researching on the web, sounded interesting so I finally got a GPS in Dec but somethings went wrong and I didnt get out to look for my 1st cache untill Jan 08, I was lucky in the area that I had found a local group of cachers and met up with a group of them on my first outing. We did a 4.5 / 4.5 nano first ( not my 1st choice) and I had fun there, Then we went and did some in the wooded areas here and I had a blast with them. I have been out a couple times with groups which I feel really helped in learning the ropes and such, But if I was just starting out by myself and going after the lampskirts right off the bat I would have thought to myself that this is not for me. I have been to a few P&G and I have yet to see 1 that I can figure out the reason for the cache to be there in the first place. I can see where micros and nanos would be there if that is all that could be placed and at some interesting location, But just to say I have a cache in the middle of the local shopping mall parking lot is a waste to me. I think a lot of people start this with good intentions but then they go after the close ones to home and all they find are the lampskirts and such and dont really try to figure out that there are more to this then just those. I have seen this in the friend from AZ as I already upgraded my GPS and sent them my 1st one and I saw them go for the closest to home and it was a lampskirt and they were getting frustrated untill I got them to leave that one alone and look for different ones that would not be micros and in the middle of parking lots. They still havent found any but they are at least still willing to try with a little guiedance even if it is from a totally newbie but I have explained how thrilling it is to find a few of the ones I have found in the woods here. Larry

I have a Colorado 300 and have the issue of not keeping time. I have already replaced the unit once before the new update came out and received my new unit a couple days before the update. It had the same issue with the time and was told about the update, Well updated my unit and have been in talks with Garmin and it is looking like they will be replacing the unit again. But according to them this is the first they are hearing of this since the update was supposed to fix this issue. So if you are still having the time not working after applying the patch PLEASE notify Garmin so that they can get that info to the programmers so they can look at it more in depth. Awaiting a phone call back Garmin to see what they will be doing since my unit still will not keep the time once powered off. And if I cannt get a sat. lock in the 1st 15 seconds I have to wait the 5 mins to get the error of having problems accuring sat. and once I tell it yes to continue I get a lock in 10 secs every time.