tom tea

All 50 of my finds have been without GPS. Google maps and the cache description is usually good enough for me...gets quite challenging when your in a thick forest or bare field with no points of reference.

Could I hijack the thread/ask for advice for a minute? I think this comes under 'paperless', I've been geocaching for a month and really caught the bug, I'm currently using my iPhone with the GC app and Google maps but I'm fed up of loosing signal in the countryside. I've been trying to read all the beginner and q&a threads but I feel a little overwhelmed by the whole thing. I'm 'currently' not that bothered about GPS as mine doesn't work and I've been getting by pretty well without it so far but I am interested in a unit which I can just store maps on because as I mentioned, having an app and Google maps is great but they're a bit useless without a phone signal. Anyone know what my best options would be? I think I understand that you can just buy 'maps', so I guess I could put these on a PDA. Any help/advice on this? Saying that, I just discovered oMaps (offline mapping) for the iPhone so I might give that a play.

I have a question about Geocoins but I didn't think think it was worthy of a new thread. I picked up a Geocoin a while ago and took it on a trip this weekend...but every cache I found was a flipping nano so I couldn't drop it off there. Am I okay logging the coin straight in and out of 1 or 2 of the nano caches I found because at the moment it looks like I've had it 2 weeks and it's only travelled 5 mins down the road where in fact I took it on a 360 mile trip around the UK.

This my first travel bug, a friend made it for me a year ago and if finally found something found a fitting task for it. Scruff the Mitten Kitten

A Trackabulldog is 'I think' just a Travel Bug from the www.ukgeocachers.co.uk shop. Enter the tracking number into the geocache website, log where you find it and check to see if it has any missions or tasks. Drop it in any cache your visiting soon...or a cache near a motorway or somewhere that gets visitors to aid it on its travels.

I'm pretty new to geocaching and I've used my iPhone 3G to some degree with all my finds so far but over the past few months, the GPS on my phone has turned terrible (iPhone is like 16 months old?). All it seems to do at the moment no matter how long I leave it, it just sticks me in the middle of the nearest town. I find it easier to find the cache in the Geocache app, read the description and then view the cache position in safari/google maps. You rarely get a cache which is dead on the GPS spot, plus using the description and your common/geo-senses and having a little search is a bit more fun : D