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Most any of the major brand GPSs will work fine to start out with. All will help find a cache. After using it for a while you will have a better idea if what you will want to have as to features and then up-grade. Then have your old GPSs for a back-up or to lend out to friends who want try caching.

Better to spend the money now than to wish you had. Besides if you do much hiking in the mountians the altmeter will give you the total number of feet you have climbed. Looking at my 60CS now I see that I climbed a total of 249 feet, reached a max. of 602 ft and at 347 feet right now ( live in flat upstate NY). The compass does come in handy when caching. My 5 year old grandson loves to follow the arrow, and would bush-wack all the way to the cache if I would let him.

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Not that it a big thing, but with the 76CS on the dash, your hand will cover the sceen when using the buttons. The 60CS has them on the bottom and won't be covered then.

I have noticed I have to re-calibrate the compass in my 60CS quite often. Even with out changing batterys, it messes up and needs re-caibrated. Doesn't take long.

A friend gave me a 3 pack for Christmas. They worked great this winter, no bugs bothered us and didn't even have to put the batterys in them. Getting to be the season now to really test them. If they work I will post so in the forums.

I feel that it is just as much of an accomplishment for a handy capped person to do a 2 as for a "jock" to do a 4. What is hard for one might be easy for another. Which person had a harder time getting the find and who should get more "points". Even the number of finds a person has can make a differance in how hard it can be to find caches. Someone with 500 finds most easier than someone with 10. Like Jeremy said ther are too many variables to be fair.

Our team name came from the Dr. Who Episode "the Face of Evil". Sevateem is a degraded "survey team". And the Teash (Paul) who joins us on occastion is the Technician. He keeps the computers running. Our logo is the T.A.R.D.I.S. . A person has to be into Dr. Who to understand .

I don't know what kind of GPS you are using. My 60cs will let me sort tem by name, closest, or Synbol. Look into that for your GPS.

I have the National Geographic Back Roads Exporer maps and have not been able to get them to see the USB that my 60CS uses. I E-Mailed them and never recieved an answer. Love the maps other wise. Sorry for being no help.

I use a 60 CS and love it. The 76 is almost the same only with the buttons on the top.. Go with the one that feels best in the hand. My old GPS (back up now) is a Magellan 330 with the same general lay out of the 60CS, and that is way I chose the 60 over the 76..

I made mine out of beech. Maybe a little heavy, but, strong.. In the top I put a cut off brass bolt, I keep a compass scewed in most of the time, but can mount my camera if I want. Part way down is a branch that sticks out to hang the camera , GPS, or anything else I want so I don't have to lay them on the groung when using both hands searching.

I have the 60CS and am very happy with it. If it comes down to a 60 go for the CS over the C, better to have the extras it comes with and not use them, than not have them and want them. I others you cache with use Rino's a 130 might be a good pick, other wise just carry a stand alone radio. As for the Magellan's. I have an old 330 that works very good, but no experiance with the newer ones. Play with them all and see what feels best in YOUR hands. What ever you get, look for USB hook-up. Fast and easy DLing.

Goto some place were you can hold the different ones in your hands. Pick the USB one that feels best. With USB loading new maps is fast and the different memory size won't matter that much. My 60CS holds a lot of area. And I have a friend with a Vista with 24MB and is happy with it.

Good luck Fly. The first fellow cacher we met was MaMaBear who works at the BPS here in NY. We found her selling GPSr's . She uses a Garmin, but was quick to show me mapping software for my Magellan. On the same trip to the BPS we did 6 caches in the area and they were all by her(we didn't plan it that way).

Both new 60's are in the new Cabelas spring catalog.

I put the Silver package onto my i710 phone as a Christmas present to myself. Will soon see how I like it.

I turned my Nextel phone into a GPSr with Trimble Outdoors.

Loading map's into my 60CS is fast and easy,besides 56mb is a lot of memory. You should be able to fit the area's you want in with no trouble. I have most of NY,and big parts of Penna. and Mich. along with small parts of Ind. Va. and Maryland in the 60 CS with 20mb left(all topo). I also have a older Magellan 330. I have topo maps for both it and the 60CS and like the Garmin maps better. Best bet is goto a store and play with both . See which one feels better to you. That is something no one here can tell you.

http://www.geocities.com/graphixoutpost/geocoins.html Check this out if you want to make the coin's yourself.

Thank you superstition. That is just what I wanted to know.

I have a Nextel i710. Do I need the Trimble soft-ware to just use it as a GPSr ? The book that came with the phone is not very helpful. Using the phone now it takes a long time to get a satellite fix and doesn't update as I move.

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Try going to the menu page. Go into the Setup then display page and change the color scheme.. I have had no trouble reading my 60CS in the sun using the default setting. Daytime is set at Diamond. Try others and find the one that works best for you.

I have both a 60CS and a Magellan 330. I decided on the 60CS over the Magellan Gold because of the USB hook-up and it's buttons were in the same place as the 330's, and size about the same. Memory has not been a problem, I have topo of most of NY and some of 5 other states in it . There is still 20 meg left. My 4 year old grandson loves the compass. He has no trouble using it to find were a cache is. Nothing beats hearing him yell "We have to go this way" I get about twice the battery life out of the 60CS compared to the 330. My advice would be to go with the one that feels better in your hands. That is what I did.