Dradicus

Now, I use ProjectGC for my pocket queries. If I create a new list on the GC website, I can go on the other and send all the caches in the area that I would need for my next fizzy grid or where I'm going on vacation, etc to the virtual GPS to build the PQs. By doing that it puts those caches in those lists created on the GC website which carries over and could be loaded this way too with this new feature I guess. I'd rather stick to the PQs though as I load my GPS from my iPad and not my laptop where I have garmin express installed. The only time I use the "list" feature is when I'm out caching and I don't have something in my GPS and I have to use the app to find it. I have a list called "to log" so I can add it to remember which ones I found when I get home. This new app and myself don't get along very well. Has anyone tried this "list" thing with any other devices like a nuvi yet?

I almost bought the new Apple Watch today exclusively for caching. I'm sure I would use it for other things eventually but first and foremost to geocache. I often find myself in situations where taking my phone out of my pocket is a terrible idea. A lot of times when I go caching with my crew we go after certain caches and we usually end up looking for others that I don't have on my GPS and I have to use my phone. I'd much rather be on a rock pile or a railroad trestle over the water looking at a description on my wrist then trying to keep from dropping my iPhone 6s and losing or breaking it. I could leave my phone in my backpack and not even have to worry about it being in my pocket. I've also gotten into kayak caching and with the watch, I could leave my phone in the dry bag and not have to clip my GPS on and off my life jacket every time we would navigate to the next cache. I could just glance at my wrist mid stroke and see where I need to go. Same goes for bicycle caching; sure I could get a handle bar mount but the watch would be easier. I too am not a big fan of the new app and only use it for the google maps function. I still use the classic paid app so I can log trackables in the log itself and not have to go back to the cache description and log each one individually. Anyway, with the new series watch being GPS enabled, there has to be a way to interface the compass. The Garmin watches accept custom waypoints and use compass based navigation but you have to input the coordinates manually and store them one at a time which could be a huge pain. I'm sure there are a lot of people out there who don't check or read the forums here who would feel the same way. I only found this thread by searching to see if I could use the watch for caching before I did go back and buy one. Glad I waited.

I am using the Wherigo app on my iPhone 6s with the most recent iOS update and I've only had one problem with the application. When I go to the stage or "zone" as I'm reading here, it zips through the pages without letting me read the info and hitting the "ok" box and it goes straight to the question part. Hasn't been a huge issue but if some of the info I needed were in those other pages it automatically flipped through, I never would have seen it. I'm still trying to figure it out and have been using it more and trying to more of this cache type because it's something different, but maybe it's just a flaw in cartridge itself.

Hey y'all! I just had a question. I very rarely find benchmarks while I'm out geocaching but I stumbled across this one yesterday. Can someone tell me what it is? It looks like it says U.S.E.D. Now does that mean it's an elevation disc or just a used disc? It's planted in a very large (20' dia) concrete base and near it was a metal pedestal with a large round top that had a huge metal screw in the middle. This was about halfway up the hill side over looking the C&O Canal NP and the Potomac River. We found this one too behind a lock tenders house. This is at Great Falls NP in Maryland and about 14 miles upstream from Washington DC. I'd love to find more of these. Is there an easier way to search for the coordinates other then using the NGS website? I've tried a few times to see if there were any around where I have been caching but I've had a hard time trying to find any coordinates for any of them. This one was is pretty close by and other then the weather, probably won't be disturbed much. Antietam National Battlefield

But when you're walking down a trail in the woods on you way to a cache and you buddy says hey, there's another one 100 feet away, wanna grab it? If it's not on my GPS (which I ran in to quite a bit yesterday) it much easier in the field to transfer wirelessly. We ended up doing a mini trail of 7 caches that I didn't have and every time he tried to send a file from his Oregon 650 to my 600, it would crash and I would have to pull the batteries. Took forever. Has anyone found a way to do this yet? Multiple caches at once? I know this is an older thread...

What about those of us who work night shift? I went to a CITO yesterday and the hosting cacher commented on my late night FTF's. I usually leave work around 3am and I check my email before I leave and if I see something new that I know I might have a chance at getting on my way home then I'll check it out. I won't go out of my way for one though. I have found quite a few caches after work simply for the fact that I just wasn't tired enough to come home yet. it makes it more interesting and sometimes a little more difficult to be less suspicious which just adds to the fun. I have a few FTF's during the day when people are at work just from out running around before work. It's not being greedy, its just fun! With being at work 50-60 hours a week and finding time to do what needs to be done, I cache when I can.

Now this might be a crazy idea and please tell me if I'm wrong.... When I first got my Oregon 600 I was looking for a way to wirelessly send geocaches from my iPad or my iPhone to my gps and ditch my old laptop. i posted in the 64st/650t comparison post about this and someone suggested the kingston mobilelite g2 wireless router. I looked into it and ended up ordering one and no longer need my computer. I use the usb cable to plug the gps into the router which creates its own wireless signal that I bridged to my home network. I can get on gc.com and download the gpx file and use the Kingston app on my idevice and save it directly to the memory card in my gps. Now, do you think it would be possible to use something like this and use a usb splitter with multiple USB ports to plug multiple gps units into the router at the same time? Maybe plug 4 gps units or so in at a time and just keep switching until you get through them all. You could use a tablet be it android or iOS or a phone or even a laptop to send the files to a few devices almost at the same time? Maybe each one separately, but the file transfer only takes a few seconds. i download the files and with the app open I can go through the folders of the gps and dump them into the gpx folder and have the full paperless files. Since it works with my iPhone too, I can take it with me and as long as I have cell service, I can use it in the field too. It's only a tad bigger then my iPhone 5c and it has enough internal battery power to charge my phone two times if I needed it to. Like I said I have no idea if it would work but it might be another option to look at. Got it on amazon for $30. Went back and re read the first post. Using the app. You can save the files for offline use to be downloaded to the device if you don't have an Internet connection. I think there are different apps you can use with it in case the files you're using aren't supported by the Kingston one.

Do you have a link to this device? I found a few different ones online but I'm not sure which one you are speaking of. Also, I finally got to try out my new Oregon 600 yesterday and I noticed that my elevations are waaaaay off. After working in surveying for a while, I know this whole area is between 500-600' above sea level. My gps varies between 1400-1600 feet. I turned on my 60csx and it was in the normal range. Is this one of the bugs of the new devices? My dad is a surveyor and we were talking about locating benchmarks and elevations and this is the only reason I checked it. Not a big deal, just wondering.

So for #4 , has anyone found a way to do this yet? I have tried to save a waypoint (Oregon 600) with the closed chest as well like I can on my 60csx to create a new cache and then just hit found once I find it and it just gets added to the found list. After about an hour of sitting in front of my dreaded laptop today I was FINALLY able to install the dagon garmin communicator plug in and load my very first paperless caches onto my new gps. Now, I usually use Firefox, but for some reason I can't install it on that browser so I had to dig out my IE file folder and open that up and it actually installed. I updated the software and decided to see if I could load some caches. I had never tried a PQ before and I still don't understand how that works but that's another topic; I went to download a few near by caches I hadn't logged yet and it gave me two options to save them to the gps. Option one was for the gps itself and option two was for the mass storage device which is the little 16gb microsd card I put in. Is the a setting to set it up to automatically save to the memory card or should I just start my own thread? Haha

In the other thread where I was asking questions about the 64s and the 600, my last post was about the fellow cacher who met up with me this weekend to let me check both the 650 and the 64st out. On his 650, he trimmed and sanded down the bottom of the clip to allow access to the USB port without removing it from the unit. Couldnt really even tell that he had done it until he showed me. Maybe an option?

Well, after posting my questions on here, a local cacher sent me a message. He lives not too far away and has both the 64st (I think) and the Oregon 650t and offered to meet up with me and let me try them out. This past Sunday we met at the Washington Monument State Park in Boonsboro ( near where we had Geowoodstock) to go find a few caches and give them a test run. I found that the 64 was still similar to my 60csx which I figured it would be and I used the 650 for the duration of the finds. I ended up coming home and ordering an Oregon 600 from Amazon which also has them on sale although not as deeply as rei did unfortunately. Can't wait to get one of my own! Thanks for the help!

Yea I saw people talking about the sale but it was to late. I was kinda hoping it was this coming Monday but o well. I'm not worried about the camera but it would be kinda cool to take pictures with the geotagging but then again, I'm not very photogenic. The biggest issue I have with my 60csx is either having to plug it in to my old slow laptop or punch in the coordinates by hand with those little buttons. I wish there was some way I could send them directly to my device from either my iPad or my iPhone. From what I have read however, the "Bluetooth" technology on the new units has no such compatibility to do so. I only use my hand held unit for caching as I have a dedicated nuvi if I ever get that lost to actually need it. Living here in the Appalachian mountain area ( I literally live 10 minutes where Geowoodstock took place this past weekend) the terrain and the different parts of the area are pretty diverse and offer every type of cache. I want something that I can easily import the numbers by hand from using the app on my phone but something where I won't lose the signal if I'm up in the mountains on the Appalachian trail or exploring caves by the river. Something where I can be in town with heavy building cover and drive 15 minutes and be hiking to Annapolis Rock under the thick tree canopy. Basically when it comes down to it, I want the signal strength of the 64s but the touchscreen of the Oregon. I'm torn between the two and unfortunately the nearest rei is about an hour and a half away and I don't think the guys at Dicks sporting goods or best buy would have half the knowledge that the people down the road do. I'd love to get my hands on both and I had the chance to this weekend at Woodstock but I found myself checking out everything else and figuring out how they made those nifty containers haha. When it boils down, I hate having to push the arrows around to make my coordinates work but I want something more accurate as mine seems to be taking a nose dive off the deep end of the technology pool. I started out with a Magellan so big I could strap it on my foot like a shoe. When I really got into caching I got the 60csx and then I slacked off for a few years but after Woodstock it's really put me back in the mood to get back out there and have my finding caches at 0130am to get a FTF. sorry for the novel but I'm just trying to decide what would best suit my needs as a weekend warrior.

So now that it's been over a year later, what are everyone's thoughts on the Oregon 650 vs the 64s? I'm looking to replace my 60csx to keep up with the new technology. I know the Oregon has the chirp cache ability where as the 64s doesn't (at least not that I've seen) but that doesn't seem to be a big thing around here. I like the idea of the touch screen for typing in coords but I also like the idea of the better antenna on the 64s. Help?

Well I tell ya what if y'all missed this, you really missed something awesome! Luckily they chose a location literally 10 minutes from my house and I was really glad I was able to attend. Way to go y'all!

other then taking it apart is there anything else? i know when i called tech support, he told me to push a few buttons at the same time and it kinda reset it. does anyone know which ones to push?

a few weeks ago i was out caching and found a disc on a recently reconstructed bridge. i went and got the coords and a picture, but i cant find it listed on the website. im guessing it hasnt been found yet. is there any way to log this? its a county control disc, not an NGS.

a friend of mine who i cache with had found one that was very interesting. its a large coin, about 3-4 inches in dia. and its made of cast iron. the tracking code had been pressed into the one side. it weighs about 5lbs. Rangershaw's Heavymetal

ive had the meridian gold for a few years now and i only ever updated the firmware once. a few months back i was way up in rhode island delivering a load(truck driver) and couldnt really tell where i was on my atlas so i got the GPS out and see if i had missed my turn and the GPS wouldn't turn on. it had worked just fine the day before when i had used it. i replaced the batteries but still nothing. about a month ago i got into caching and didnt have a GPS so i replaced it with a Garmin GPSMap 60CSx. does anyone know how i can fix my meridian gold? how i can get it to turn back on? i had the problem with it not turning on when i updated the firmware and i was able to call tech support for help and got it going again, but it seems like they no longer have support for the meridian gold. is there any hope or should i just trash it?