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What I have seen over the years is that a touch screen model GPS isn't as readable in bright sunlight as the ones with buttons. I guess that it may have something to do with a sensing layer to detect touch over the regular display but I'm not really sure. I've owned 60CSx, 62s, and now a 64s and any time I've been with a caching group and compared, the results have always been the same. If you can do a side-by-side comparison in sunlight at the store before you buy it might help you make up your mind.

I myself have seen far too many cache pages that look like my eight year old daughter typed it them...two years ago.

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The firmware version on my 64s was just updated to 3.00................

Just some comments on the City Navigator and "maps from an old broken unused gps" problem with the 64s. I was replacing my worn out and peeling 62s and rather than order a new 64s online and wait a week or so I decided to drive 40 miles to pick one up at the nearest store that carried it. The first thing I did when I left the store and got into my car was insert my micro SD card with CN 2010 into the 64s and navigate home without any problems. I then bought a CN 2015 micro SD card from Ebay and it didn’t work because the 64s couldn’t authenticate the CN maps. The Ebay CN 2015 card would work in my old 62s with no problems and the CN 2010 that worked in the 64s was a copy I made from my genuine original legitimate CN 2010 from Garmin. I was nervous not having a backup in case the card failed or I lost it so I stashed the original CN 2010 micro SD card in a safe place and have used the copy for a few years with no problems. The card I put in the 64s when I bought it was that copy of the CN 2010 maps I made and it worked fine in the 64s. Apparently there are changes in both the new maps and the 64s that make sure you have a legitimate map file and it isn’t just the 64s that will prevent you from using certain maps. Even though these Ebay listings give you the impression that the card you're buying is legitimate, it won't work in newer GPS units that do check. I returned the Ebay card for a refund and am now in the process of buying a ‘real’ micro SD card with the latest CN 2015 maps from Garmin.

I agree with the previous replies. Puzzle caches are generally quite personal and depend on your interests and strengths. You could build a puzzle that would be simple for you but might be more difficult for others who don’t possess that specialized interest. I have seen interesting puzzles based on sports teams, knitting, income tax tables, the Bible, works of art, time zones, resistor color codes, movie trivia, history, and of course, math and physics. I wouldn’t recommend having someone else design a puzzle for you but for you to come up with an idea and build a puzzle around that idea. You could then discuss the puzzle with one of your fellow cachers who can double check your work and make sure that the derived coordinates make sense and lead cachers to the container. Having someone beta test a puzzle cache is a very good idea unless you want to take a chance that a possible miscalculation on your part might send cachers searching in the wrong location for the cache.

Which way does the compass point? Are you looking for an app that has a pointer that points toward the cache your seeking and not toward north? A little more detail might help.

See post #4. I should've been clearer about that in the OP. Oh, I think you've been very clear about the intent of you "improvements". Elitism by any other name.....

Does requiring some cachers (who you feel aren't as good as you are) to sign their online logs differently, or make their logs invisible to you, make your logs more valuable?

I've done the now archived A-Z challenge in Las Vegas and I can tell you it wasn't in a 'sign-post'. Meeting the requirements for a challenge cache over 2300 miles from my home in New Hampshire AND signing the physical log to get a smilie - priceless, not pointless.

I wasn't caching when I did this but I did walk from Georgia to Maine a couple of times on the Appalachian Trail, 2180 miles per trip. The saying we had was: "Anything is within walking distance if you have enough time."

Post #1 reminded me of a quote from Hamlet: "The lady doth protest too much, methinks."

While going after a cache I jumped off a low wall and landed off center so most of weight was on my left leg. I suffered a complete quadriceps tendon rupture which means the large tendon that connects the quadriceps muscles to the kneecap tore away from the kneecap and it had to be reattached surgically. I still managed to get a few FTFs shortly after the operation with the immobilizer on my leg and walking with crutches.

Here is a quote from a log from 12-13-10 on the original E.T. Highway series where one person (who I know personally) did over 1000 in under 24 hours (looks like 22:45 if my math is correct). Some people are obviously driven.

Let me say that I have no reason to doubt the first part of your statement about you personally not being able to keep up the pace to find 960 or some other number of caches in 24 hours but the second part of your statement is completely illogical or backwards. If you don't believe that someone (or anyone) can do this, the burden is on you to provide hard evidence that they can't or haven't done it instead of the other way around. If you have a birther mentality then nothing anyone can say or do would convince you otherwise, even if the results were notarized. It is certainly disingenuous of you to say that you're not calling a large number of cachers liars when you also say that what they claim isn't factual and their cache finds are not legitimate. Hundreds of cachers have found over 1000 caches per day and there is no reason not to believe them. We get it that you don't like power trails or the cachers who do and that's fine, just admit that and quit trying to smear others who do power trails and have put the time and effort into enjoying finding over 960 finds per day.

Sounds like what happens to a lot of caches no matter where they are hidden.

Two of us from NH did the E.T. Highway this past April with one car. We switched driving every hour which seemed to work well and our best day was 877 caches in under 14 hours. Morning temps of 18 degrees and small blizzards that covered the high ground may have slowed us down a bit, but not much. Another solo cacher from our area spent a much longer day and got over 1000 finds all by himself. Part of finding this many caches per day is being motivated. I'm over 70 years old and if I can do it, almost anyone can. If you go to the following link and select the country you're interested in (or click on the flag for U.S.) then click on 'filter' you will see that, in the U.S. for instance, the top finds per day is now at 2245. With my "puny" 877 finds per day there are over 380 cacher who have found more caches per day, in some cases over 2.5 times what I found. http://project-gc.com/TopFinders/topcachesday

redsox_mark: Does anyone else see the irony that the OP has a 'company' name (Red Sox) as part of his username?

Roman! ....so you admit being outside almost got you killed. Maybe you ought to stick to puzzle caches inside, it's safer.

Roman!

Roman!

we confess

So the reviewer, who you continually insult, is clearly doing his job by making sure that even more caches with bad coordinates by auzzie convict aren’t released and you’re somehow blaming him? William Shakespeare-“"The fault, dear POLKYS QUEST, is not in our stars, but in ourselves…”

I write terse logs.

I was thinking that this thread is in keeping with the high quality of the many other threads you have started.