RecipeForDisaster

I’m too far away, but might be able to walk you through the computer stuff. Do you have any kind of computer? I use Macs and it’s easy with nothing to download. I just drag and drop the GPX files onto the Garmin.

Is it in the correct folder on the SD card? That said, I have had issues with this after a crash on my 66s. The gpx files are there, but the unit displays no caches. Removing and reinstalling the card after a restart does not always fix the issue.

Thank you! I would love to add some more.

We always travel with books to donate to other LFLs... when we are in other states, we make a point in visiting all we can get to. I guess we should put up a waymark for ours too!

We have a large LFL with a letterbox and a geocache in it - we put the cache out before we were into letterboxing. The cache is a huge dictionary safe. It has been a big hit! The cache and box are permanently tethered into the library... once the entire bottom shelf, the books, and both the box and cache were stolen, but we have had mostly good times with it since 2012.

How do we know that the trackable owner hasn’t -already- had their trackable stolen? This could be the replacement. I know I’ll put proxies out once the original coin has been taken.

Ours is gently and artisanally aged for several years, turned over every month or so, before it's shared with gardening friends and family. I have never used additional fertilizer!

I think they mean that fresh manure isn’t best for a garden. We have horses and do use the compost they help to make on our garden. We don’t have transportation for them, but one of our dreams is to get out caching from the saddle. In a neighboring state and other places within a few hours, there are even caches hidden at rider height so you don’t need to dismount.

I suddenly cannot see any cache logs even if I click "view logbook" in iOS 13 Safari.

I can’t bookmark at all anymore without going to the list and adding the cache as a GC code. It’s extremely frustrating. I used to open in a new tab, too, to add a note, but just being able to add the cache to a list at all would be a bonus right now...

For the past week or so, I’m not sure exactly, I have not gotten any email notification of logs on my owned caches. I do get emails through geocaching such as virtual answers. I am not sure if I’m getting notifications on my watch list or anything else. I only know because I got a virtual answer with no log, and when I went to the cache's page, there was a lot. I had missed several others as well, when I checked my last find on my owned caches. I also cannot add anything to a bookmark list without going to the list and adding it by GC number. When I hit "add to bookmark list" the page just refreshes, and I can’t even open it in a new tab anymore. My email works fine otherwise, and I’m using iOS 13 and Safari. I checked the email server to be sure the geocaching emails weren’t suddenly marked as spam, and they weren’t.

I refreshed a cache page and found that I had been logged out, which normally doesn't happen. When I logged in again (even though I have checked the box to remember me), I got the same 500 error. This is not good.

This hit too close to home as I'm hundreds of miles from home without a computer, hoping that my geocaching live PQs download quickly... For seemingly no reason, an hour into my trip, I had a catastrophic crash with loss of PQs. I removed the SD card containing the .gpx files, restarted without it, replaced the card and restarted it, and never got it to see the PQs after repeating this miserable procedure all day. I will note that being on the road, in the woods, or in a river are rotten places to have to take your battery pack and SD card out. This really wrecked my caching trip. I do love this unit, when it's behaving, so my workflow depends on having it running. When there are no caches on it, it isn't useful. I even tried to stop at a fast food place to get on geocaching live, but for the first time, the wifi had one of those "I agree" buttons that would need to be pushed in a browser, so I couldn't get it online. Oddly, the waypoints associated with the PQs, and my maps, loaded just fine after reindexing. Garmin seems to have given up... this has happened to me about 15 times. This is relevant because the unit had a nag screen about installing the new software, and after I realized it wasn't getting fixed on this trip, I let it update. I do see "remove dashboard" as an option now, but otherwise haven't noticed anything new.

I suspect there re a lot of us who use lists this way. Solved puzzles, to-do lists, etc. after each outing where I find these caches, I have to look through 999 caches and check off the ones I found... it would be excellent to have a button that says "check off all found caches" or "remove found caches".

I'm sure that prevents some crashes, but mine crashes within 5 minutes of being turned on often enough. I naturally turn mine off when I won't be using it anyway...

I can often get mine to crash hard while navigating on road with guidance, when I deviate from the route. I get frequent crashes when searching for a POI by name, too. Sometimes, it's seemingly for no reason, I always give it time to "think" before pressing more buttons. I'm very gentle with it because I'm hoping to avoid crashes as much as possible. I have no mobile internet, so losing data really stinks, even if I can reindex the files from the SD card. Doing that in the woods or on the river, especially since it takes so long, is no fun.

I started out with my usual PQs (which are duplicated on my eTrex 20 - that doesn't crash with the same files) on the internal memory, and had plenty of soft and hard crashes, and for a long time I have only loaded maps and PQs to the SD card. It continues to crash with the same files that doesn't give the eTrex 20 a problem. I used regular batteries, then Eneloops, and now the Garmin internal battery - none affected the rate of crashes. I have multiple friends, some using GSAK to load a GGZ file rather than GPZ, with the 66s, and they have the exact crashes that I do. I try to get them to contact Garmin, but I think they see me wasting my time on that and don't feel compelled to do the same. I'm glad I can take out the SD card, reboot, and reindex those files on the road, but it takes serious time, and I despise having to remove a tiny SD card with wet/dirty hands in the middle of the woods or a river. If I don't have caches in the device, it isn't much use to me, so I don't care too much if it runs smoothly that way. The fact that the eTrex 20 can handle the same exact files tells me that the 66s should have no issue either.

I have the exact same issue and this is a replacement unit, no better than my first. Garmin acts like I'm the only one so please do contact them. They have not been very helpful in solving any of my issues. I do love the unit and will keep plugging away... but those hard crashes are very destructive!

Great idea. I've asked myself briefly if there was a way to only view DNFs on a cache page , for instance.... then I'm disappointed when I realize there isn't. You can search the page, but it doesn't work well especially when the page needs to scroll to load... you won't hit results where the logs haven't loaded.

I'd second the eTrex20 for simple, expandable, and accurate. It's what I would have liked to have started with and what I still often use now. It's not too big but has a decent screen that is good for displaying maps.

I know this is big surprise, but it turns out that the lock and lock containing other people's trackables (that should never be a sentence.... if you want a big box of them, for heaven's sake, buy your own like we did) , that never made it out caching with the holder, is missing!! They did apologize... I give them a little credit for that and for getting back to me, not that I should have had to reach out in the first place, but I said that he should at least let the other TB owners know. I'm SO glad I didn't let the original coin out, but still. The proxy is hand painted and shaped like the item on the coin... not a quick remake.

I'm finding a lot of people who hoard 20-40 of other peoples' trackables and never move them again. This doesn't make sense when they are proxies, compared to nice coins that one might steal. One answered me after I reached out - he's had my proxy over FOUR YEARS and doesn't even dip it , at least not for the past year plus. I handmade it and want it moving for our anniversary - he claims it's "probably in his garage" and he "doesn't remember to take them with him when he caches" but "doesn't think he's ever lost one". It's hard to lose something you're hoarding, but does it matter if it's lost or just held forever??? Come on - why do you think you should take other people's trackables if you KNOW you strand them in your house and lose / hoard them????

Garmin has been unable to solve any of the issues with my 66s ("search near" not working, hard crashing when deviating from a route, losing data to the point of not seeing the SD card after a crash...) , so if someone is smarter and more helpful than who they have "troubleshooting" with me... I'd appreciate it.

A caching buddy and I have the same problem with our 66s units which are new and up to date on their firmware. I'd say it doesn't work about 3/4 of the time. I haven't heard back from Garmi about it.

You're probably right, or that wasn't one of the ones I tried- I don't have it on me, but I have about seven maps on the SD card and toggled each of the routable ones on at a time to see if it would still crash. It did. The worst part was the device losing data, then not seeing any of the SD card contents after the crash, even after reindexing... I don't get how repeated restarts fixed that, but I hope it never happens again.