ncbeisers

I tried the FREE "Geocache Navigator" with my Sony Ericsson W760i phone (with internal GPS) on AT&T and it worked great! http://www.geocachenavigator.com/NokiaEdit...25/Default.aspx The web site says that this application will only work with select Nokia phones, but obviously it will work with others. I'll bet it would work with any phone that supports J2ME (java) applications. It may even work with an external bluetooth GPS. This will be pretty handy if you are out and want to bag a cache or two without your GPSr or without a PDA full of notes.

All the Treos are gone, thanks everyone I hope you can put 'em to good use! Bob

I recently came across a bunch of Treo 180s. These early Blackberry-like smartphone PDAa are pretty outdated and probably not good for much, but put Cachemate on them and they become a cost effective way to take the details for 1000s of caches with you when you hunt geocaches! There is a good review of this Treo here The Treo 180 also works as a cell phone, but assume that the phone function does not work since I can’t verify it. I believe most are GSM 900/1800 (European) band, and may be locked to some unknown carrier. Cachemate works on these devices very nicely. The jog wheel is implemented for list scrolling and selection, the default buttons can be redefined for Cachemate specific functions, and the full keyboard makes entering text a breeze. I loaded up 1600 caches directly from GSAK and used less than half of the available 16M memory space. I’m selling these at $20 each (which will include shipping to any place in the lower 48 United States) just to cover my costs on them in the hopes that someone can make good use of them. If you are interested, please email me at treocacher@gmail.com Payment via Paypal is preferred. What you get: 1) Used Treo 180 PDA Smartphone 2) USB sync and charging cable (brand new) What you’ll need: 1) Something to use as a Treo stylus (first come first serve as I only have a few) 2) The Palm Hotsync Manager (free from here ) to load files on the Treo 3) The Treo 180 user guide from here 4) Cachemate Geocache application (from here ) $8 5) A Geocaching.com premium membership (to get lists of caches in .gpx files) 6) Optional: GSAK to organize and load caches on the Treo (gpx files can also be loaded with the Hotsync Manager)

Maybe I should refine my idea of "interesting". I am thinking more of the journey and destination versus the cache itself. I'm looking for a way to differentiate caches that take you someplace "interesting" versus those that take you to a box of trinkets. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the searching for either. But as was mentioned, if you have a long list of possible caches and a short amount of time it would be great to hit those that took you to someplace memorable. http://www.keenpeople.com/ is very interesting, I had not been there, but I couldn't find a way to easily locate the highest rated caches that are closest to me. This rating would be much more useful if it was built into the cache logging process and available as search criteria for pocket queries, etc. Good point about actually talking to people Teamx40, perhaps there are other solutions besides using computers and data!!

I'm a relatively new cacher and I really enjoy this hobby/sport. I've found dozens of caches and some of those have been in some very interesting places that I never would have found otherwise. This is the part of caching that I enjoy the most. The problem is how to identify the really interesting cache destinations from the run-of-the-mill (but still fun) walks in the woods. My idea (which may not be new) is to rate caches based on interest just like they are now rated on difficulty and terrain. Perhaps cache loggers could rate the cache and geocaching.com could post an average score or something (similar to rating books at Amazon). Rating guidelines could be posted to keep it somewhat uniform. This rating would be subjective of course, but it would give cachers a better idea of which caches they'd like to search for. Just a thought, what do you think? NCBeisers