EXDNR

Traveling to Chattanogga earlier this week and stopped at Eastbound Over Monteagle in the middle of a freaking thunderstorm. It always seems to start raining just as you head up into the hills before Chattanogga. We were standing outside the rest area building under an overhang and just as I took a step towards the cache location...BOOM...lightning hit closer than I really care it ever to get. Scared the hell out of everyone at the rest area. Managed to recover the cache, but very nearly had to change my shorts. Not a good idea to cache in a thunderstorm!

Sounds like maybe someone trained a scorpion to find caches. Just think of all the money you could save not having to buy a GPS unit!

35 years young myself, but sometimes feeling way old (like when my back goes out)...

I am happy with my Garmin etrex vista. I am fairly new to geocaching, having been at it for only a month (29 found so far) and find the vista to have all the features I need. I paid $269 for mine at Bass Pro Shops in Saint Louis, MO which is very reasonable. It isn't color and does not have a quad helix antenna (a feature I wanted) but it works great. If I didn't have this unit I would have a Garmin GPSMap 60. This one is still grey scale, but it has the quad helix antenna.

If you use a GPS unit like a cell phone should you be concerned about the radiation flooding your brain (not to mention the satellite signals)?