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Count me in for bringing the app back for the Apple Watch 2. I'm getting one for Christmas and it just dawned on me how useful the app would be on a watch with an intrinsic GPS. I started searching the internet to see how the app would work until I found this post.....oh no! I'm guessing that a lot of folks may discover geocaching via their Apple watch if you bring the app back.

Riveritt, My GPS is set to true north, and my compass is now properly declinated to know where true north is. They seem to correlate pretty well now. Thanks!

I found out what my problem was and am ashamed to admit it. I throughly read my new compass's instructions on setting declination. They seemed crystal clear. Just for grins I tried setting the declination just oposite of what I had it. I had it set to 16 degrees West, so I set it to 16 degees East. I live in New Hampshire. Wow...now the GPS and compass correlate much better! I checked all of this out by finding a mountain summit about 8 miles away that I can view from my deck. As I'm new to this, it took a while to figure out which peak it was, even with a topo map. I then found the peak on my GPS topo map and did a "go to" and read the bearing. I compared that to a bearing that I shot directly from my compass and one I determined from the compass and paper topo map. The most error I got was about 2 degrees which I think is acceptable...no? I appreciate the feedback and I will definitely look into the navigation books suggested.

Thanks all....good suggestions. The more I thought about it, the more I am convinced that my GPS was off a few degrees. I was testing sitting under a roof on a screened in porch. Subsequently, the GPS's accuracy wasn't great. I figured if I moved 30 or 40 feet from my position, the gps bearing would be right on. I live in an area where I can see several mountain summits. I'm going outside right now to see how the GPS and compass bearing correlate. BTW, for other beginners, get a compass and map and learn to use them...it will teach you about your new GPS! It has helped me to understand my gps better.

I just got a suunto compass with declination adjustment. In NH, where I am, the adjustment is 16 degrees west. I put on the reading glasses to make sure I had it exact. I have been comparing my GPS, a garmin legend vista c, to the compass. I checked the gps and it says there is a 16 degrees difference between magnetic and true north, as it should. But, as I check bearing (to my door knob and my driveway light, and others) it seems that my compass is a couple (read two) degrees off. When I do a "sight 'n go" on the gps, it continues to point right directly at the doorknob. It says the bearing is 333 degrees from where I'm sitting. When I look at a bearing at 333 degrees on my new compass, it is a foot or two to the right of the doorknob. I am sitting about 20 feet from the doorknob. This also seems to be the case with the lightpole (farther away). I guess my question is, should I try to adjust the declination on my compass a few degrees to match my gps? Am I missing something, or am I just being too anal ( I doubt the anal part if you multiply my distance from the doorknob several hundred times to a real waypoint!) Thanks for any help or suggestions.

Oh...in the calendar, in the calendar...why would anyone think to look for dates in a calendar? Thanks a bunch! Joe B...the genius

Hi, I'm new to geocaching but am getting addicted fast! My question concerns the etrex Vista C's geocache setup. It has an option to answer "yes" to "calander entry when found". This is set to "yes" as default. Now that I'm a bit more into this, I would like to retreive that info about my found caches. I did mark the caches as found and the little icon changes to an open box, but I can't seem to find the dates I found caches anywhere. Any suggestions? Thanks! Joe B