cphickie

I agree. If you've ever geocached on Arizona State Trust land, you will see that there is often LOTS of illegal dumping on these lands. Also lots of off road trails and new trails that get illegally cut (even though your are told not to do this when you purchase your annual permit. The "footprint" of a geocache compared to illegal dumping and new trails is laughably small. I would suggest that if we petition AZ state government, that we offer some sort of a trade--like a bag of trash out every time we place a cache or go caching on state trust land, as well as a promise that whenever that parcel of trust land is sold, all caches will be immediately archived and removed. An argument could be made, also, of the tourist impact to Arizona that this ruling would have (though I don't know how to calculate that. -Chris

Bummer news re: state trust land (just found out about this after submitting a new cache: -------------------------- Hello Geocaches on Arizona state trust land (ASTL) are not allowed to be published anymore. This also includes cache listings with bogus coordinates/waypoints that list on ASTL. A decision from the land managers has not yet been finalized on the existing caches that are on ASTL. The Natural Resource Manager has said, "Cachers seem to think that as long as they have a recreational permit from the department that they are free to place caches. The permit application is very specific about placing/leaving items on trust land: The Permittee shall not …cause any refuse or allow any other foreign objects to be deposited on State Trust Land. Here is a link to the complete application: RecreationPermit So, while we greatly appreciate the fact that many cachers have taken the time to obtain a recreational use permit, caching is not an approved form of recreation. Therefore, cachers are not abiding by your placement requirements when placing their caches." You can contact the Natural Resource Manager of the Environmental Resources & Trespass Section if you have any further questions on this land issue and their rules. Contact information can be found at their website Arizona State Land Department. Groundspeak respects the wishes of land managers and land owners. The rules mentioned above are their rules, belonging neither to the reviewers nor to Groundspeak. Responsibility for meeting these rules rests with the cache owner and responsibility for enforcement of those rules rests with the land manager. Thank you. --------------

There is an app called "Garmin Exchanger" for android phones (in the Google Play Store) that looks like it might work if you aren't able to get the phone to see your GPS60 on a straight connection. But (disclaimer) I have not yet tried it for my droid4 to gpsmap62.

Thank you for your help, everyone! All 3 suggestions will work--now I just have to finish the puzzles! Chris

Hi everyone, There is a series of 107 or so puzzle caches near me (Tucson, AZ--the Looney Bin series--starting with GC491QA)that I'd like to try and claim in one long outing--although maybe not until the weather gets cooler. As I'm solving the puzzles and saving the coordinates in the Personal Cache Note field for each cache's page on geocaching.com, it has occurred to me that I don't have an easy way to run through these caches out in the field. I have an android smartphone and run both apps Geocaching and C:geo on it and also use a Garmin Edge 305 as a (primitive--it's made for bicycling, not geocaching) backup. I could of course simply have a notebook and key in the coordinates from the notebook into my smartphone one by one out in the field (into a GPS app like GPS Status), but it is hard keying in coordinates in the bright sun and 107 is even more time consuming. I'd really like to have all 107 geocaches loaded and ready to go out in the field. Is there a way to do this with the above smartphone apps or my Edge 305? I've also been looking at getting a more geocaching-friendly GPS unit (one that I can upload files to, like a Garmin GPSMAP)--again, is there a way to upload cache coords and an indentifier for each cache into a more advanced geocaching GPS unit so I can keep track of where I am at while being able to move quickly from cache to cache? Thanks, Chris