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I too find the level indicator a bit to rigid... How the .... am I supposed to hold then thing perfectly level (probably +-10degress tolerance) while bushwacking Thank you all for the great advice on the car mount... Since I have one mouting plate already I'll head off to Officemax tomorrow and get the adhesive and give it a shot (the GPS shot off my dash twice again today when accelerating - I am starting to drive like a school bus driver already )

Permanent sounds good. Is it REALLY permanent? Does anyone have experience in removing it? Will it damage the dash (at some point I want to sell the car and don't want to have replace the dash...)

Correct. The best reception with the 60CS is when you hold it vertical. The compass only works when you hold it (fairly) horizontal

I got my 60CS yesterday and couldn't keep myself from posting my first impressions: Overall: I am very impressed Routing: I never had a routing GPS before - so I played with it yesterday extensively while driving places I needed to go (and I knew how to get there). It works quite well. 95% of the time it recommended the same route I would have taken anyway. I already found a bunch of errors in the CitySelect 5.02 maps - especially with Town boundaries. That's a bit disappointing - those boundaries where last changed 20+ years ago - yet some POI's show up with the wrong town... Overall: Thumbs up - I didn't buy it because of it's routing abilities but I shurely like them and they'll help me be much more relaxed going places I have never been before. Caching: Went on an 8 mile six cache hike today. The 60CS behaved very well. Reception was much bettern than with my eTrex. Even in difficult terrain (cliffs and dense trees at the same time) it never blinked. I only lost reception twice while I was hunched over it for a long time... I am using the eTrex neck lanyard for now. Not 100% ideal - but I want the thing around my neck and not on my belt. I do a bit of rock scrambling and a belt mount would be a very bad idea... The track log held up (after reading the posts here) with barometric sensor on variable. At the end I had 47% of the log used (after approx. 5 hours total time). Loggin was set to 'less often'. I think that is sufficient for me... What I am missing: When using 'find-waypoints' the Geocache waypoints are listed with all others. I can filter by category - but only one category at a time. Why not leave out the Geocache waypoints since they have an extra menu item anyway... Here is my biggest complaint so far: I use a very different map setup when auto-routing vs. caching. I would love if the unit could store different setups for each group of maps (e.g. CitySelect vs. Topo) or for Geocaching vs. regular mode. When I cached I use: North up, no guidance text, 2 data fields (distance to target and elevation) When I auto-route I use: Track up, guidance text, no data fields. That's quite a number of clicks to get from one to the other... I should probably send these suggestions to Garmin for future releases. Not so good: Compass: It's really a bad design - needing to hold it fairly level. In difficult terrain I get 6-9ft accuracy when holding it up, but when I need a compass reading the accuracy drops because of the non-optimal antenna position... Sounds: Would be nice to have louder beeps. I drive a convertible and the routing beeps are pretty low with the top down. Friction Stand/Bean-Bag: The Bean-Bag holds up well in my second car but does not hold up to the roads (and my driving style) in the convertible. The roads here are very hilly and windy and I don't drive slow... I need to find a better way of placing it - but I am not commited to drilling holes or permanetly mounting it yet. A very happy new 60CS owner...

Got mine yesterday from getfeetwet... Great combo price - great company - while they where on backorder I was able to speak to a real person twice immediately when I called and I got a realistic delivery date that they met.... I'll definately keep them on my recommend list and will buy there again...

Hmmm.. I have no trouble with the icons and the Geocaches are recognized in Geocaching mode - - but they also show up in waypoints (which is quite annoying)... What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for the tip! That clip looks like a good choice. I'll see how the eTrex lanyard holds up tomorrow and may order one for the next weekend...

I just got my 60CS and ordered the Geko/Rino Neck Lanyard as well. It fit's but is much shorter than the Lanyard that comes with my eTrex Venture. It's to short to use the GPS with the lanyard attached (or my neck is to big ). I like using the mounting knob for the lanyard instead of the lanyard loop thingy - because it keeps the GPS more leveled dangling in front of me. If anybody knows of a similar contraption that is longer please let me know. Otherwise I think I'll take the Geko Lanyard apart and put a longer string into it (after my first 60CS geocaching day tomorrow - I can't wait to try the beast in the wild - for now I am using the eTrex lanyard through the proper loop on the 60CS and that is long enough to wear and use at the same time)....

I had the same blue flag event that you did. Got my 60CS with UPS today as well What I did is I transfered my waypoints from my eTrex Venture to easyGPS and then wanted to transfer them to the 60CS. That's where I ended up with all the blue flags. It seems that the waypoint symbols of the eTrex and 60CS are different: After the transfer to the 60CS EasyGPS had a whole different set of symbols (more colorfull and more of them) than before. I updated all of them (you can highlight a block and change the symbol at the same time) to valid symbols - downloaded them to the 60CS again and all is well. I also tried my weekly .gpx file and that downloaded fine as well. I suspect if I would try to download to the eTrex next I'd have the same problem again. It seems that easyGPS auto-adjusts to the waypoint symbols in the GPS but only after an initial transfer. I hope this helps... Otherwise I feel like a kid in the candystore with my new toy

I just finished my first paperless day using cachmate (after reading the posts here) and it is amazingly simple... No more fear of sheets flying through the wind (my Palm is a bit heavy to fly away)... - I already lost some of my sheets on two hikes and that was a bit unnerving... So cachmate has my vote!

I spent the last hour or so searching through various posts and got a couple of good pointers as to what I would like ask (I could not find a clear answer so please forgive me if you already answered a similar question - I'd really appreciate some advice): I remember from last Summer (when I started Geocaching) that I had a tough time with reception and heavy tree coverage (there are a lot of trees here in the North East)... I read about the ReRadiation antenna ReRadiating Antenna and that sounds like a good thing to help. Can anyone confirm their positive (or post their negative) experience with this setting (e.g. Antenna on backpack - and I guess I'd have to place the reradiating loop around the GPS?) Another option (for more money - which I am not sure I need to go) would be to get a 60C or 60CS... Can someone that made the move from the eTrex to the 60C/CS and had signal trouble before let me know their subjective signal comparison? Any replies are greatly appreciated