Silfron Mandotheneset

I have a Garmin Venture HC and it won't turn on. Well, it WILL turn on, but it get's to the "finding satellites" screen and then turns off. It's not the batteries, I've even tried it plugged into my computer (where it normally works with no batteries even in it) and it does it. I emailed Garmin, and they told me to install new firmware (I think? Something like that) but it won't stay on long enough to do that. I emailed them again and said I would need to have it repaired, which would cost me $60. Anyone know something else I can try that WON'T cost me $60 +shipping?

Is it possible you put in a digit wrong the first time? It's an easy mistake to make, and depending on the digit you could be several feet or several hundred miles away

Thanks for all the replies! The event that I released the original one at happens every year, so I suppose it would be kind of neat to wait and release the new one at the same event, which will put it pretty much right at a year missing. Hopefully the new one will fare better. Thanks again!

I released a traveler last May (TB2EACN), it moved once and then disappeared I got a toy volkswagon (since the coin was a VW bus) and a tag on which I plan to engrave the tracking number of the lost coin, to release again. My question is, how long should I wait to release it? It's been almost a year. I'm 100% sure the coin is not in the cache it was last logged into (the owner was kind enough to check for me). I moved it to an unknown location after that confirmation, but grabbed back yesterday so I could re-release. Have I waited long enough? I just don't want to do anything rude/unethical/etc. Thanks for the help! Also, just so I can learn more, did I do everything else in there right? With the unknown locations and such?

what's the point?...the coin will never show up in that cache, you drop it in and retrieve it right away Yes please do it that way. Deposit and then remove, I mean. I've seen some people use their mileage coins by just depositing and leaving it there, then depositing it into the next one without ever retrieving it from the last. I find it frustrating because I especially like going after caches with coins in them and I don't like having to look up the TB page just to make sure it's actually there. (of course I have to anyway because so many of them have been logged into caches for who knows how long without actually being there.... but still ) As to the OPs original question, with ours we just started logging with the coin on the next cache after we got it, but I've never heard of anyone being against backlogging

Alright, I've used GSAK before on my own computer with no problems, but I'm on my grandmother's computer today, because we're visiting. I downloaded GSAK, and the nifty windows thing found the drivers for the GPS, and everything works fine, except that when I download the waypoints into my GPS (venture HC) they don't show up as geocaches. I saw that there's an option to change when icons it uses to display the waypoints in the GPS using GSAK, but there was no option for geocaches to change it to. It'll work fine to get us to the cache, I suppose, but I'd still like to know why it's just downloading them as waypoints and not as geocaches. Please help if you can, thanks in advance. Hope that all made sense.

Well, that makes sense I guess. I've seen coins and bugs with "do not take to event" descriptions (I like to just click through random coins on other peoples lists, they're all so cool!), but never one that let it go to an event but deleted all the logs but the retrieve log. Thanks for the help!

I just recently had a discover log on a geocoin deleted, from a coin I had seen at an event back in the middle of december. I was very confused, but when I went to the coins page again, there's was this message in the description: "This geocoin is meant to travel from cache to cache to be enjoyed by many. It is not to be kept. Please pass it on! Public "finds/discovers" during Geocache Events are not welcome and will be deleted. "Discovers" by your friends while you are actually out caching are OK, however, so feel free to share the coin in your travels. " I'm pretty sure that wasn't there when I logged, as I usually read descriptions, and wouldn't have bothered logging with that there, but that's not really the point. I mean, I guess they can make whatever rules they want, it is their coin. The question is this: Is that normal? Should I not discover coins at events? That was the first event I had been to, and it seemed like that was sort of the point. (and none of my other discoveries from the event have been deleted)... but I'm still new at this. Someone please clarify for me, I don't want to risk making anyone angry in the future

Ah, ok, there was an option to delete all the treasure chests, I was just in the wrong menu. Thanks a bunch!

Alright, I'll look for the delete by icon option. Not sure what you were talking about with the different batches... I don't think my GPS would know the difference. But I don't know, I've only had the thing for about 12 hours, and I;ve never used GSAK before. O_o And I reeeally need to sleep. But I have to figure this out first.

Alrighty, so I read through the GSAK 101 and succesfully downloaded 500 waypoints to my new venture. Awesome! But they're all near my house, and I'm trying to now replaces them with the new PQ I just did for the route we'll be driving tomorrow, and some caches in the area we'll be in. But when I send the waypoints to the GPS, the GPS says "waypoint memory full" and GSAK won't automatically replace them. What do I need to do? I tried just deleting the waypoint from the GPS but I can't figure out a way to do that without deleting them one at a time O_o Please help?

Thanks a bunch I'm going out of town tomorrow and want to find some on the way with it, so I have to learn all this in the next few hours Thanks again!

I got a Venture HC for Christmas, and I know I can download waypoints to it, but.... Two questions, basically. First, does adding waypoints take up some of the 24MB capacity for maps? It came with a topo map CD, but I don't want to install it if it's going to keep me from downloading waypoints... Second, what's the link for GSAK? And is there a tutorial or something for what to do with it once I have it? Any other advice is appreciated too

I got a Garmin Venture HC with Topo maps Not the best unit out there, but a very nice upgrade from out eTrex H. And from my parents, not santa

If I ever come across one of those rule-laden TB prisons I'll just take the bugs and move em... and not even note that I had been there. Then maybe go find it a few months later for the smily. Or maybe not. Luckily the cachers around here seem to be like-minded to the forumers, and set up TB hotels, not prisons, with no rules. Or just caches with no rues at all. So, as others have said, if you can help it, move it. The owners will be glad you did.

Been looking through some coins sites lately and noticed I was particularly drawn to geoswag.com for some reason. I think because it's so user-friendly and easy to browse through. So I was wondering, anyone else have a favorite coin site? If you do, why is it your favorite?

I would think yes. If there is really no way (besides dumb luck of course) to find it without another person, I would think five-star. But I'm no one to trust, so I'd also advise waiting on other opinions!

Considering OPs avatar s/he should know of at least ONE more expensive hobby: Photography! MY DSLR camera cost way more than my GPSr. Plus the cost of photo paper and printer ink? And the printer, for that matter (which broke after less than a year (last time I buy a Samsung printer). And before the age of digital, good lord! Even having free access to the high school darkroom, the cost of chemicals and paper, and film. Crap. And that was just b&w. I don't even KNOW the prices if you wanted to do color. Yeah, geocaching is cheap. Woot EDIT for bad spelling

Bump

I hadn't noticed that. It used to be listed right after the co-ords, but that reference was removed sometime with the updates to the cache page. Well, I found this in the official glossary:

Isn't that what Waymarking is for?

Like he said, that guideline really only applies to caches themselves, not travelers. I mean, there are Garmin geocoins, Jeep TBs... if that's not commercial I don't know what is! There's also a few KU Jayhawk coins floating around (and probably other similar ones in other parts of the country), so your mascot should be fine. Although, if you have a hard-core rival team out there... well... they might be less than pleased to find it.

We have one geocoin that we take with us to every cache. It's a neat way to see how far (sort of) you've been traveling. We even dipped it into a virtual cache the other day... we weren't sure that was OK, but I checked the cache's history and there were already more than a dozen coins/TBs logged as having been there!

The coins that look like pills and say "cure for the caching bug" or something like that one them. I just think they would be a ton of fun to start off in a pill bottle cache!

6.4 Miles (near kansas city)