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Well Hi everyone!

 

I do love a good getting to know you thread. I hope it stays pinned for a while so I can read bits of it at a time....

 

I heard about geocaching jsut a few weeks ago and I absolutely can't believe I hadn't heard of it before! I immediately got a Garmin eTrex from craigslist. It's been raining around here and I really want to bring my boyfriend, so to kill time until we get to go out, I've been on the forums a bit. I think I've learned a lot and I'm excited to go out to some woods and parks with my man TOMORROW!

 

Sometime last year I really started itching for something to do outside. I got a slackline for Xmas (from my amazingly loving boyfriend) and we've gotten it out a few times but I still had a hankering for hiking or something. I haven't even done much hiking in my life, but when I did it (and wasn't forced at grade-point) I usually enjoyed it. I was looking into orienteering because I remembered it from elementary school (imagine that) but then someone at my work mentioned his son was getting into geocaching. The rest of the story is yet to be written

 

Be back tomorrow with my first time out story!

 

~K~

[Need help with a Garmin eTrex]

ooh ooh i thought of my other question! My Garmin Etrex did not come with a data cable Where can I get one of those suckers? I looked online a bit and they seemed really high, and it looks like i need one with a male plug for my lappy, but all i saw were female.

[Need help with a Garmin eTrex]

I'm going to hop in here! This is my first post so to begin with, Hi! I'm Kelli but you can call me K.

 

I did a search for "muggles" in this forum and found this page, which answers so many questions that I hadn't even known I needed to ask...

 

I also have the Old skizzy Yellow Garmin eTrex... Bought it practically new from a guy on craigslist. I do not, unfortunately, have a data cable. I'm pretty ok with entering coords manually, at least for a while.

 

What got me to speak up tho, is your idea, coggins, of putting cache info as a note on an ipod. I was thinking that exact same thing jsut a few moments before I read it here! I have a Nano, but I think it would still work.

 

Any other tips for us using the basic-est of the basic?

 

Thanks!

 

~K~

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noob, just checking