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Mountain Moji: I can get a couple of hours out of a full charge. We've been locating easier caches with hikes of up to an hour, so no problems so far, and I charge in the car between caches. But for longer treks or trails with several caches, I'm considering an extra battery as well.

I've just started geocaching and I use the iPhone app plus a premium membership. The iPhone has worked very well so far for several successful finds, and I'm about as rural as you can get. I haven't worked with Trimble, but I do have an app called Free GPS for entering in coordinates manually, like with puzzle caches. (I can't figure out how to do it on the Geocaching app.) I bought the premium membership because in the last week of geocaching we've spent about 15 hours at it. An afternoon at the movies for the four of us could easily add up to $30. Paying that much for all of the hours we've spent hiking and gathering as a family in just one week is a bargain.

We're new to geocaching, but we found quickly that carrying a small camera puts most non-geocachers at ease. Photographers go just about anywhere for a great shot, so why wouldn't I be hanging upside down off a fishing pier poking into the rip rap?