gawgt

We purchased a Garmin Etrex Venture HC for a first-year, 11 yo scout earlier this year. That unit works great for geocaching! Very sensitive under tree cover, and this scout can deftly use this unit to find geocaches. I figured that it is best to purchase a lower-cost mapping model, as the unit might receive rough treatment from young hands. At least it will not be handled with care as I use mine. And we are not going to have to load many maps, so no need for the HCx model. When we do have to change maps, we'll just connect it to a PC and upload new maps via MapSource. The scout is going to use this unit during a camping outing in a couple weeks to demonstrate geocaching to his troop. Out of a troop of about 44 boys, only maybe 1 other has experience with geocaching.