MikeAndHike

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I can only point you here! Hope it helps!

One thing I will mention that I missed in the how to but was frustrating to me. Move the Geocache Viewer into your "my places" in google earth. It loads into temporary places the first time and won't be there after you close Google Earth unless you move it. Hope that helps. I am sure that is in the how to but like I said I missed it and it was frustrating.

Haha, i can't help but remember thinking in class "When will I ever need to use this?" and I promptly forgot it. I bet you could google search incline physics formulas or some such and find some help that way. Good Luck

7rxc I do hope your eyes recover I am going to enlarge the photo as its been two days and I don't want all the seekers to lose hope

My 2cents! I am also shopping and I have also narrowed it down to the 62s and 450. I finally made it out to a store with both models available for trial. The staff were great and gave me all the time I wanted with the units without any pressure to BUY NOW! So my thoughts on them after about 30 min of play time. Garmin 450 Touchscreen - sensitivity was very good. Bare handed it worked great and responded quickly and accurately to my touch. Better than my Nuvi by leaps and bounds. It also worked well with a pair of insulated leather gloves. I live in Alberta, Canada so I had good reason to have them there for the test. With the gloves the accuracy of the touch was slightly off as you would expect but the screen still reacted quickly and never missed a touch. Also was easily viewable in as many different light conditions that I could test indoors. Well they did let me go about 3 feet out the doors to get satellite reception so some overcast as well. Still good. Ease of use - Menu was instinctive. If you have ever had a smart phone, ipod, pda, etc.. it just makes sense. All of the geocaching and waypoint use that I tested (the store actually had a couple caches loaded) was very easy. The only tricky bit was placing a waypoint. I had to get the waypoint setting on and found I had to zoom in a lot to get it to place accurately. Maybe there is an experienced way around this. Feel - Was a great fit for my hand. Yeah, I know, that is almost useless in a review as we will have different hands. None the less it felt like a well built sturdy unit. I probably wouldn't be willing to test it on my own unit though. Garmin 62s Screen - Is less than .5cm smaller than the touchscreen. I was amazed at this. From photos I always thought that the 62 was losing screen real estate to the 450. Not so. Insignificant difference in my opinion. Also, for the sake, of completeness, not a touch screen. The screen was equally good in the lighting conditions available. Ease of use - This is the biggest difference from the 450. While navigating to and from the menus isn't hard, it isn't as instinctive as the touch screen menus of the 450. The button layout is less instinctive as well. I think it is a "having it long enough to remember where the right buttons are" thing. I did find my self having to look down at the buttons a lot. Now what this unit did easier was place waypoints. There is a mark button on the unit. You just hit the button and blam waypoint. Feel - This unit feels tough. Tough enough that I really wouldn't worry about it getting banged around in my pack or worried if my three little rascals got a hold of it. Again the "fit" of the unit was very good. Different from the 450 but still a good fit. It is a good bit longer taking into account the antenna, almost same size screen, and buttons and the space to place them. My decision, I will be buying the Garmin 62s. IMHO from what I have gathered and feel, going to be the longer lasting. Going to get stronger signal in the badland valleys and mountainous terrain I will be taking it. And has all the other abilities of the 450. I am now actively shopping for one. Come on awesome sale!! A quick bit about me. I first heard about geocaching one day before this account was opened. I know, I must live in a box. I have years of GPS use for hunting, fishing, hiking and some S&R. I am a very techy guy with a serious weakness for all forms of gadgetry. I am live just on the outskirts of the badlands in AB and can't believe I never knew my favorite activity exhisted this long. To think of all the places I have been and all the caches I could have found Guess its a good excuse to make those trips again though. Mike Soon to be Cache Crazy! EDIT: Screen Sizes from Garmin 450 - 1.53"W x 2.55"H (3.8 x 6.3 cm); 3" diag (7.6 cm) 62 - 1.6" x 2.2" (4.1 x 5.6 cm); 2.6" diag (6.6 cm) Like I mentioned earlier, very very similar sized screens closer even than my estimate.

Got 3 from me as well. 85th. 9 voters 3 votes each. 27 votes puts this in 85th. To get this up to the top ten in souvenirs we need around ten times these votes. We can do it.

Well here is my 2nd attempt. Hope it is a little bit harder than the first.

GC15GWW Wish I was into geocaching when I visited this part of the country a few years back.

This is the page I used to become semi literate earlier this year. GeoLex Hope it helps.

Bingo!!! Your up mTn_biKer65!

Be that as it may be. In my past I have lived From Nipawin to Broadview, from Onion Lake to Sturgis, and places in between and I have yet to see mountains in Saskatchewan.

Hope I did this right...

True Hiker's Cache2 GC1F07V I had been looking in NFLD but had given up on it and headed west. Finally found one!

Testing Testing.... Is this thing on?

Off topic I apologize. Is that an alien in the water next to the cache? Check out the satellite image!

From what I understand, the .loc only contain that information. If you want the full breakdown/info you need to use the .gpx version. Hope that helps. Mike

You would think that those unique ponds/dugouts would be somewhat easy to find info on. And maybe they are if you are looking in the right area. So far I have not. Love this game though.

Thanks for the welcome Doug 7rxc, I have been lurking a little while and am in the processe of picking out a gps to start my geocaching career. Back to the quest at hand. I have looked into north and northwest flowing rivers. I have taken a look at the shadows. I have googled as many things into account that I have yet to think of. I have found some really similar shadows along a river flowing the right direction but the colors are off a bit and there is no island(s) as I see in your photo. I haven't given up but I think I have to try out some new rivers. Mike

Well I am definitely ready for another hint. I am thinking and searching along the wester side of the Rocky mountains. There are roads of that size and orientation running along a lot of the waterways. And there is a lot of camping/hiking areas if that is a trail head. On the other hand if it is a dadgum then I am also covered as there are a lot of those too. No luck so far but I will keep at it a while yet. Not the quiting type. P.S. I did originally think it was northern Ontario near Hudson's Bay but I gave that up for a couple of reasons.