[Making your own trackables]

When one of our TB's has been missing for a year we reuse the number on one of our wooden nickles. Only had one come back alive resulting in the same number being active in different areas at the same time.

[Challenge Caches]

What do you like most about challenge caches? The added effort required to sift through the many caches out there and find the ones needed to meet a challenge.

What do you not like about challenge caches? What's not to like? If you don't like them, don't do them.

What would you like to see changed about challenge caches? Nothing.

If you could describe your favorite challenge cache type, what would it be? Those that make us visit areas we might not otherwise visit, such as the Delorme or one that requires visits to X number of State Parks or the challenge that requires X number of cemetery caches in Y number of counties within the state.

What types of challenge caches do you avoid? The 100 in a day or the all D/T grid in a day.

[Imput on the Garmin Dakota 10 or 20]

We like our Dakota-20. Light weight, all day caching on a set of charged NiMH batteries, quick loading of queries. Good caching unit. Only complaint I have is when using my Apple MacBook. Send to my GPS indicates the cache was written successfully, but done show up.

[Garmin Dakota-20]

My wife and I have used an eTrek H and found it OK. When one of input buttons failed while on a trip we picked up a Dakota-20 and really like it. It came with some maps, but like you we use the car mounted for road data and the -20 in a geocaching profile. It also lets you load queries containing many caches from an area or route. The only problem I have is when using my MacBook to send individual cache GPX data to the device. It indicates the file was written successfully, but when you try to bring it up on the devise it's not there. The queries load fine from the Apple.

 

By the way, Garmin repaired the eTrek H under warrantee and we got it beck within 10 days.

[Garmin Dakota-20]

My husband and I have been using the geocaching app for iphone and really enjoy it! However, if you are not caching in the city where there are obvious targets it doesn't get you closer than 100 feet. It really hasn't been that big of a deal because we use the sat. map and can actually count the parking spaces or the light poles from above with the areal photo map. Recently we started doing more trails and woods caches and not being able to get within 100 feet is to say the least ANOYING!

 

We have been looking at the Garmin Dakota 20 and saw that the reviews range from 1 start to 5. That's a big gap.

 

We do not need this gps unit to navigate us in the car/roads as we have the garmin nuvi for that.

 

So I see that it doesn't come with maps?! I'm confused...I saw where you can download maps, but you have to pay for them? So is this just a shell that you pay another $100 for maps for? I don't understand what I'm reading in the reviews and on garmin.com They all seem to be beating around the bush as to what is included and what you will have to pay for.

 

We are a military family and will be moving about every 2/3 years. We do not want to pay for one part of the country only to need another part in a few years. Do you have to do this with all units? If so then it's not as big of a deal i suppose.

 

Sorry to make this so long but any help/clarification would be helpful!! Anyone have this?