LZScout

I have a Garmin Montana GPS. It gives me the normal options for logging a cache (Found It, Did Not Find, Needs Maitenance). Using these actions creates a geocache.visits text file that I can upload to geocaching.com to log my finds. When I find a cache in bad shape, can I log the find by just logging a "Needs Maitenance" entry or do I also have to have the GPS log a "Found It" (requires locking up the cache again and logging the find)? To illustrate, here is a section of my latest geocache.visit file that I uploaded to the site: GC15AVQ,2019-10-16T15:37Z,Found it,"Cont and log need repv" GC15AVQ,2019-10-16T15:38Z,Needs Maintenance,"" I fix the remarks when I enter the uploaded drafts.

Thanks for all your answers so far. I have a question for "janandsteve". When you look in the BaseCamp lower window, do you actually see geocaches and the information therein? Mine are all still appearing as waypoints. LZScout

I've recently become the proud owner of the Garmin GPSMap 62s. While I could start a whole new forum on the 62s itself, I'd like to pose a few questions about the Base Camp program itself, primarily, what is it good for? I've been geocaching since 2003 and am quite familiar with Garmin GPS's and software. The Garmin GPSMap 60cx, along with Mapsource, has been my foundation for much of it. Both the unit and program were solid and never failed me. Perhaps it's just unfamiarity, but transitioning to Base Camp (a requrement of the 62s) seems to be a step backwards. I have to admit that the 62s manual was next to worthless in telling a person how to use the units menus, let alone how to use it for geocaching. I did manage to figure out how to install maps (City Navigator 2010 and various GPSFileDepot topo maps) using the MapInstall feature of Base Camp. It took some trial to figure out that I could not install maps from City Navigator and the topo maps at the same time. The resulting gmapsupp.img file would not allow the topo maps to be seen with CN present. When I used MapInstall to load the CN and topomaps separately (renaiming the first .img file before the next map set addition), they then worked OK (topo maps were displayed when CN was disabled in Map Setup). Working with pocket queries in Base Camp appears to be useless. If I import a pocket query into Base Camp, it will dispay few, if any, of the caches as geocaches, displaying them instead as waypoints. No cache info/logs are displayed (yes, I did check for the tab at the bottom of the page. On some queries, some queries show partial geocaches and the rest as waypoints. On the map, they all display as treasure chest symbols. If I load these geocahes to the 62s using the programs, the same waypoint/geocache display problem is transferred there. I called Garmin with this issue and they blamed Geocaching.com stating, "Whenever you have gpx files from Geocache appear incorrectly in our programs and/or on our devices, the issue is with the hosting on the Geocaching.com. If they improperly label the .gpx file before it is uploaded, then that issue is widespread. There isn't anything wrong with Basecamp and knowing you are getting them from Geocaching.com further confirms the issue isn't with Basecamp." So, I'm ignoring Base Camp and just transferring the gpx file from the query to the Garmin/GPX folder on the 62s. All geocaches show up on the unit as they should. I used to rely on MapSource to keep records of my different trips (Caches I loaded, those I found, any waypoints I made along the way, and a record of the tracks I recorded). I can't see how any of this will work in Base Camp, at least not to the extent I used to use. If anyone has any suggestions, I'm all ears. LZScout