John Stead

Yes please, if it can be done.

We already have it in waym**king (which is why I felt obliged to mention that hot potato above), and it seems to work very well. Many thanks - perhaps I should look at that site again - I did when it was new and thought it was not for me. And the idea of merger was not one I had heard about - how certain is that?

While I broadly agree with what Moss originally said and a lot of what has followed, I still think there is room for variety in the game. As has been said what is rubbish to one is good fun to another, even if it is only another number in his count. I was interested in the idea of categorization though not sure how it could be made to work - what I really object to is the sort of cache where it is obvious no real effort has been made to make it interesting, sometimes just an unpunctuated note on the lines of here it is and come and get it. One short series not a million miles from my home had no descrtiptions at all - yes I logged them as I knew the area was quite interesting (I had one of my own caches in the same Reserve) but one or two of us registered our views by logging without comment either. While I am ranting I also am afraid that more caches these days are in poor condition. I will hang my head in shame and admit that I know at least two of mine are wet and must get to them to repair. Somtimes the poor condition is the result of inadequate preparation and inadequate boxes for the conditions - but too often too I fear that the finders are responsible either by not keeping the caches out of the rain when inspecting them or by compromising the seal on the boxes by trapping bits of vegetation or pieces of the contents in the rim of the boxes when they close them. I'd better stop now or I will go on about boxes wrapped in smelly torn plastic bags and that would really be getting off topic. I think the real plea is for owners of caches to give some thought to what they are doing and to give their readers some idea of what the intention is behind the cache.

Many thanks - I will look forward to that.

I am afraid that I had forgotten all about this and wonder if it is going to go out for general release or stay in beta. I would still be willing to help with the testing.

As Anders has said it is quite easy to assign a drive letter to any drive (except c I think) and the instrustions for XP are here support.microsoft.com/kb/307844

Both on my Touch Cruise

Hope you caught the train!

I have recently (as an insurance replacement having done much the same as PUP to my HTC Herald) acquired a HTC Touch Cruise - P3650 which does it all and is very light as well, much more so than the Kaiser though of course without a keyboard which I never used when I had the Herald. I am very pleased with it and if PUP is at the Chester event this evening he is welcome to have a play!

If there were any (heaven forbid) they would have to come in threes!

Many thanks Anders - I had not realized that each track was automatically archived as you started a new one and had been manually archiving and then deleting the current track as I moved to a new cache.

I am still finding my way round the Colorado menu system (oh for a decent manual!) but can a similar screen to that shown for the HCX be found on the Colorado?

Who were England playing - odds on they lost!

Just to stir the muddy water what is not needed by one cacher might be essential to another - e.g. as I am only about 5'3" there have been times when I have used a folding ladder to reach something which a 6 footer could get without even standing on tiptoes! Maybe not specialist but certainly necessary.

I agree that v2.40 is a big improvement both in speed of operation and usability having initially been very disappointed with the Colorado. But I have found one quirk which I do not think was in V2.30. I am finding that only geocaches in a gpx file on the sd card are recognised even though an identical file was in the internal memory. If I remove the sd card (gpx file still in internal memory) - no caches and the button for geocaches disappears from the where to menu. In most respects this is fine as I had planned to keep my caches on the sd card but had also thought to keep my core caches internally and add out of town caches to the card as and when needed. I am finding that Garmin have not yet added the Colorado to their notification of updates facility as any request to be added to the list is bounced back. BTW this is a most helpful topic for a not very techie getting to grips with a new tool - but it is getting very long and may it be time to split it up to separate requests for help from suggestions for improvements?

True!

Ah Ha. Cool! I just ran a test at "the kitchen table" and you can have a usable geocache .gpx file on the SD card. This is very good news. It means you could have multiple cards loaded with different cache .gpx files to switch out as needed. That's too complicated. Magellan eXplorist has way better support for geocaching than the Colorado. I have both and I thought getting a Colorado would have been an upgrade In Magellan there is a thing called file manager, so you can have 10000 different geocache/POI/tracklog/whatever files on an SD card (only the card size is the limit), then you just select which ones are in use at which moment. For example, I have all caches in my country chopped to 200 caches per file (which is the stupid limit in Magellan). But, I *can* have all geocaches to go, and I don't need a laptop with me if I do ad-hoc caching with my car. And it works fast when I choose a cache, look at cache information (no full descr. though), and all caches are visible on the map! I really hope that Garmin fixes things to the level that they promised in their advertisements, otherwise I'm back in Magellan's camp for good. I completely echo the first part of the last paragraph as being able to shift files from the card to the internal memory and vice versa is what I want to be able to do. If that were possible it should also be possible to store maps as well as waypoint/geocaches.

Ah Ha. Cool! I just ran a test at "the kitchen table" and you can have a usable geocache .gpx file on the SD card. This is very good news. It means you could have multiple cards loaded with different cache .gpx files to switch out as needed. Connected via USB to the PC I created a new folder on the card called GPX, just like the GPX folder in the internal drive. I took all my caches (.gpx files) off the internal memory and put them all in my new GPX folder on the card. When booting up they are all there. I also tested putting my cache .gpx files directly in the garmin folder on the card. They will not show up this way. Next, I tried putting geocache .gpx files on both the internal memory and the card. This also worked! I took a test PQ of mine from 1500 miles away they are all there. I did keep the total number of caches to below the "1000 limit" for these tests. So in conclusion you can have caches on both the internal memory and the SD card. I have the 300 by the way running 2.3/2/6, with a 2GB SD card where I have all my mapping. Very many thanks for running the test - it looks as though you have answered my prayer most helpfully and I will go off and experiment myself. If I can have up to 1000 waypoints on each of two SD cards that should answer all my needs.

Sorry if this has already been answered but I have just browsed the topic and can't see it -- is there any way in which files can be transferred from the SD card to internal memory? I appreciate that it can be done via a PC but what about in the field? I was thinking it should be possible to hold one gpx file for one set of geocaches in use and another for another set to transfer if moving to a different part of the country. The idea being to limit the number in storage at any one time and thus speed up startup.

John, have a look in the GPS forum, you'll find a few posts with the instructions on how to alter the default map options so that caches do show up. Many thanks - that was most helpful in more ways than one!

I would prefer Level One of Option One. I would have been happy with Rutson's list but it includes Merseyside which in spite of what Hazel says does not exist in my book. To have Levels One and Two of Option One seems to me to be over complicated and I would be quite content with the larger spreads.

I got one last week but it is so so so slow! And I am still trying to find my way round the menus. But it is good in that it holds all the cache details, including hints and the Topo map looks good - but does not show the caches! I am sure that when I have mastered it I will find it good but today I took out my faithful old 60CS - and I don't think that is why I had a record crop of DNFs, 5 out of 7 albeit one had been archived and I had not noticed!

Eyes left

Very many thanks - I had only just noticed that the problem was there, read a bit further and it was solved!

The other day I was having trouble finding a micro and the coords took me to the door of a police station. As the hint said "Ask a Policeman" (its since been changed with the coords), so I did. He showed interest and helped me search his emergency call box and a nearby BT phone box but without success. A few days later with the revised coords and a lot of PAF, I returned, found the cache and out of courtesey took it into the police station to show what I had been looking for without actually saying where it had been hidden beyond "in the hedge". Later in the day another cacher came along and also asked for police help to be told "Oh yes he found it in the hedge" - but they still did not find it.