SwEagle

App won't even open now with the new update, crashes immediately. Using iPhone 5s v 10.3.1. What I would like to see added is to be able to access personal cache notes from the cache page with the app.

I'm still waiting since 12 hours ago with new PQ's. What is up with that?

As a new GCer and a non-HP fan, I like "Muggle". I was telling a friend about geocaching a couple of weeks ago while we were doing our volunteer work on campus. One of the maintenance guys was coming over and I say to her, "It's a Muggle!" She just laughed and knew the word from HP. The next week she brought me a t-shirt with Muggle on it! I can hardly wait to wear it caching!

First of all, welcome to the hobby It sounds like you're going to be doing some interesting things with your GPSr in addition to geocaching -- pretty awesome Try sending those cache coordinates to your GPSr directly using the "send to GPS" button on the cache page. I am not positive about the connection with the Triton but at least that gets you away from any possibly transcription errors. There are a lot of people more qualified to answer that one than I am. Starting out, it's generally a good idea to start with easy hides yes, but also to start with hides that are of a regular size rather than small or micro. That might give you a bit better idea of what you're looking for and the ways people hide these caches before you go out and get frustrated looking for tough ones. Give regular sized caches with fairly easy approaches a go and then branch out When you get to that "spot," you should imagine the displayed accuracy of your GPSr and imagine that radius. Then, to make things even more interesting, imagine a similar circle intersecting yours; keep an eye on your GPSr because that will probably lead you closer and closer to where you want to be but that final spot isn't necessarily going to be the spot of the cache. Look around for places where you might imagine hiding something; poke around gently... As a geologist/geophysicst, I was trained to run right up to the rocks and start tasting them and touching them. I'm not advocating that but get up into it and peer down at things and under things and pick up rocks. Be careful to replace them where you found them but don't be afraid to look into things. Tonight I went with my folks to find a geocache in a canyon near here. The GPSr had an accuracy of around 40 feet and the hillside was pretty littered with keen hiding places. My dad was standing there looking around and I asked him if he was searching... to which he replied "yes, quite hard!" My mom and I looked around the other parts of the search area and my dad wandered off. I ended up finding the cache in a hollow log not 5 feet from where my dad was searching quite hard My point is that you've gotta get in there and look. A geocache, well hidden, will by design not be easy to spot from a spot that any random passer by would be. Forgive me if this is a repetition or lesson unneeded because you seem to have it fairly well figured but: Latitude and Longitude are equally important; you need to be close to both coordinate to be in the correct spot. For instance you can follow a line of longitude from the north pole to the south... Latitude you can circumnavigate the globe at any point keeping the same latitude, never deviating north or south. It's where those specific lines intersect that are the key to the game Good luck caching and I hope that someone in your area will take you under their wing. If not, please post questions here because people are friendly and helpful; don't be afraid to post any question, no matter how silly you think it might be. Happy caching! The "send to GPS" doesn't work with Magellan, I did try it though. I did go back through and downloaded larger cache container ones, plus a few small. I downloaded them and was ready to go when my GPSr broke!! So now I have to wait until it gets repaired. The on/off switch inside broke. Anyway, thanks for the welcome and advice. Cheers

I'm a newbie here as well and from my understanding the "r" in GPSr stands for "receiver"

I already had that going for me. Now I am down for about 4 weeks. I got all the caches loaded into my GPSr and checked the info, everything was there except logs. As I turned off the GPSr, the on/off switch broke. The piece inside broke off of the circuit board, so now I have to send it in for repair.....Aaarrrggggggg!! Thank you

Thanks for the input. Datum on my GPSr is set to WGS84. I did download cache info via GPX exchange on the most recent ones. I do think that before I upgraded to premium that I had to use .LOC with EasyGPS. I use the Vantage Point software to transfer to the GPSr. @ SKellyPA - Make sure your unit is in the Geocache profile. Then you can goto Menu->Goto-Geocaches and then you select one and it points you to where you need to go. It sounds like you're trying to match the coordinates manually rather than using this feature? Yes, I will try this as I do think I was trying to follow the marked caches on the map on the GPSr. Not sure, but will try again. I deleted all my stored caches and will try again using all the info given. I did say, I'm still learning!! Thanks to all for your advice. Off to try again!

Hi I'm SwEagle and new to Geocaching. Oh, what fun I thought this would be. I ordered my first ever GPS, a Magellan Triton 400, mostly to find eagle nests as that is the only location info that is shown. I will be monitoring for the Audubon Center for Birds of Prey this breeding season. So I really need to learn more about using and locating the cords with the GPS, but finding out about GCing, while researching GPSr, just added a bit more excitement to the task, especially after I saw how many caches are hidden around the Treasure Coast. I somewhat learned how to use it, still learning!! Downloaded the local caches, and wrote down the cords rather than print out info as well and away I went to find them. I read all the info, the logs and thought I was starting with easy finds, albeit the small ones. That didn't work so I printed the info and still failed. I did noticed that I could input all the info into the GPS manually, but that takes a lot of time. My first breakdown came at trying to find the exact cords, ex: N 27° 13.059 W 080° 20.726 or whatever was sent to my GPS. I do understand that the cache may or may not be at the exact cords and you have to look around the general area, but when you look and look and look and find nothing, well it is a bit frustrating. Even with following the little arrow on the GPS and checking the distance to reading. And finding that you are at least close to the "spot" and a search still comes up empty. So one question I have is and I found myself in this situation yesterday....I was standing in the exact spot of the posted latitude, but not close to the supposed longitude....so how does that work? Yet I have been in the right area/cords and searched within in 10-12 foot radius to no avail. So sorry for rambling, maybe I just need a mentor!! Any takers out there in the PSL, FL area to show me the ropes?

last try.......... I give up...anyone?? It shows on preview, enabled box is checked.........

Once more.... logged out and back in.......trying again.

Sig didn't work...

This is a test of the emergency geocachers association.