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Which Legend were you looking at? The Legend has a serial input, the Legend HCx has a USB... For a basic unit with a USB input, you can't beat a Venture HC. $115 from Amazon, including shipping - the best price you will find by a lot. IMO, if you are giving them to students, that is the unit I would get. But I am slightly biased, it is the unit I use...

I don't think there are any rules about logging it to any cache you visit... that is what people usually do with personal travel bugs. I wouldn't bother with my vehicle one though, I'd rather just have logs from others who saw it. Your bug so it is up to you how and when you log it. If I saw a bug on a car, I would log a 'discovered it' and list where I saw the vehicle.

I would use it, but not for a pic of me. Depending on where it is, you would end up with either a shot of the view, or a pic of the Geodog All those 'useless' pics are part of the cache history

You can also load them through the Mapsource program that came with it. Or, of it's a cache you want, you can send it directly to it from the cache page.

I would just post a note something to the effect of "dropping and picking up the TB. Was in the cache, but not logged." Try to be nice with what you write, no need to point out who didn't log it or anything like that. *edit* deleting the 'dip' sounds like a good idea.

I'm with Kohavis on just about everything. For my needs the Venture HC is perfect, I didn't need all the upgrades. I even do just about everything the way he listed it. I also use an ipod for paperless caching (was writing it all out). For the average cacher, the Venture at $115 is a good unit. The Vista HCx is $214, 60 CSx is $300 - all prices from Amazon. Would I spend the $100 to get a Vista? Not after using the Venture for a while - I don't think the added items are worth it. I don't even have any maps in mine, just the basemap, I have a Tomtom for roads. Whichever you end up getting, a handheld makes caching a lot easier than using a car GPSr...

I tried loading info into my iPod for the first time yesterday, I like it a lot better than all the writing I was doing. Now I just have to go load all the other caches I plan to do... Did you use Cache Magnet? I tried to download and install it last night but I was having trouble getting it to install. Yes I did. I didn't have any problems running or installing it... One warning, when you load new cache files to the iPod, it deletes the old. Make sure you still have the Gpx files you want. I had to download them over again so i could restore them...

Would be easier to help if you told us more what you want to do with it. THe Vista HCx has some nice features over the Venture HC. Longer battery life, electric compass, takes memory cards, more waypoints... The Vista is $100 more than the Venture though. When I started out, I wasn't willing to pay the difference - I bought the Venture. For what I do, it fits my needs. If I were upgrading now, I would probably go with a 60CSx - the reviews are very good on it.

I tried loading info into my iPod for the first time yesterday, I like it a lot better than all the writing I was doing. Now I just have to go load all the other caches I plan to do...

I agree, give it at least a week before grabbing it. If you planned to drop it sooner, you need to make a decision... I 'grabbed' a TB from someone that I retrieved from a cache. It was listed as being in someone's hands, so I checked when they had visited the cache. From reading other logs I knew it was only a week before, although they had not logged a visit. I was planning to drop it in a cache the next day though. In retrospect I should have waited, but they never logged the visit... You might be able to tell who dropped it from the cache and TB logs. If it's been a while, you can grab it fairly safely. If the person who has it hasn't logged a cache visit, you may want to wait.

Well, I found my problem... never agreed to the terms and conditions Went to PQs tonight, there is the link. Just ran one, took 30 seconds to get...

No one who doesn't live in Canada, Buffalo or Detroit has any idea what Tim Horton's is. Naw, this has come up before, the ads will sometimes be geared towards the subject matter in the forums. Usually though, it's just GPS type stuff. They made their way to RI. Some of the worst coffee I have ever tasted But on the upside they now sell Del's Frozen Lemonade. Not doing a Disney cruise, but I am doing an Alaskan cruise. I will be hitting at least one cache up there...

There are many eTrex receivers, which one do you have? I'll second the Venture HC nomination. Nice low price (if you get it at the right place), color screen, basemap, and usb. I find it very easy to use. But if you have trouble with electronic toys, any gps will give you fits :-) The Venture is the only handheld I have experience with though...

I tried running a one Wed, one Thurs, and one today. I have received nothing... Used different email addresses for them too to rule that out, as well as adding the email addresses to my add book. Nothing... Maybe I'm doing something wrong...

Just when I thought I would never find a cache in all fifty states... Seems wrong to me, If you weren't there, you didn't find it...

You can change your home coordinates at any time. Enter the ones you need now, change it when you get back to Michigan.

My big worry is that it would go missing and never make it to where you want. I bet you could find someone in Maine who would be willing to take care of the ashes for you. I certainly would. Being a dog lover and knowing the connections that form, I'd be willing to move one along if I found it.

In main menu go to setup, then display, set display mode to 'Daytime.' One of the first things I did to mine. I dislike night mode on a car GPSr too... On topic... Venture HC is my gps at the moment. Best $115 I have spent on a 'toy.' In a year or so, if I'm still enjoying caching, I may upgrade.

Yes by a few different methods. Most receivers now have a trip meter function so all he would have to do is set it to zero at the start. As I mentioned previously he could also download the tracklog to a PC and determine the distance that way (and would have a plot of his track too). Yup, trip meter is what he is looking for. I use it everytime I go out to see how far Geodog and I have walked. Even my Venture HC has it...

I pick out what I want to try and get, load it into the GPSr, and write out what I think is important in a notebook. Then I head out and start walking. They are in the notebook in the order they *should* be obtainable. I also use the GPS to figure out what is closer to do next. It's not a perfect system, last Sunday my 3-4 mile walk ended up being 6 miles. Geodog slept on the ride home...

Garmin etrex Venture HC. Cheap, effective, and good for someone who really shouldn't be buying another 'toy.'

Always a good heads up. I only walk Gracie on a leash, but I still won't take her into hunting areas. I have spent a LOT of time searching out caches in areas that do not allow hunting. There are a lot I can't do now, but even with orange I just feel safer waiting until March... I have been shot at while hunting and wearing orange. After seeing all these great companions in their glory I just had to make an attempt to warn everyone. It's something I had forgotten about until I saw it in the New England forum the day after the season opened, so I imagine others have too. No one want to lose a companion like that... Yes they do. Some remind me of what the guy holding the sign at a construction site wears...

Always a good heads up. I only walk Gracie on a leash, but I still won't take her into hunting areas. I have spent a LOT of time searching out caches in areas that do not allow hunting. There are a lot I can't do now, but even with orange I just feel safer waiting until March...

Um, how soon we forget. Or I'll say in most of your cases, don't know about. A State Senator in South Carolina went bonkers over geocaching in cemeteries in 2005, and even introduced a bill to have it banned. Ultimately, it never became law. Check out the first post in the thread I'm linking below, which is basically a report on the Senators anti-geocaching presentation before the Senate. Doesn't exactly cast our hobby in a positive light. Edit to mention, all the damning evidence was over night caching in cemeteries, even though the legislation sought to ban cemetery caching outright. http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php...=South+Carolina It wasn't just S.C. though, shock waves were felt all over the United States. You'd have had a snowballs chance in hell of getting a cemetery cache approved without proof of explicit permission in my State (New York) for about 2 years after that. The reviewers have since loosened up a little. Until it happens again, of course. My post wasn't about geocaching in a cemetery at night, it was about being in a cemetery at night. Doesn't matter what you are doing there... Maybe we just don't have enough real crime, maybe they don't like stones and plots getting vandalized. Whatever the reason, they arrest...

I always took that to mean pictures too. I have never taken a picture of a hiding spot or container. But if I do, it won't be posted in a log. There was a cache I greatly appreciated the pic I saw though...