GreenMiler

I hope this the right thread to attach to, but I was thinking about paperless caches and did not want to shell out big dollar$ for a PDA just to geocache. I have an older Handspring Ice that runs Palm software. With work I have limited free time to cache and the less I have to carry around the easier it will be. Any clues or info to help me out will be greatly appreciated.

Just this past week, I was at a local civil war memorial on the outskirts of town, on the way back to my vehicle. When as coming over the hill, I noticed a LLE cruiser blocking my truck in and the officer walking around looking at it. But before I reached the spot he got back in his car and pulled away. Figuring all was OK, I finally reached my truck and prepared to leave. As I was pulling away from the location, I looked ahead and saw the front of the crusier behind some construction equipment. (the town is expanding in all directions even around historical monuments) Before I reached his location he pulled off again, this made my worry meter start to beep. It wasn't until I got home that I noticed the note under my wiper blade asking if I found the cache I was looking for. I guess he noticed the cache description pages lying on the seat when he was checking out my truck. Worry meter auto shut-off. WHEEW!!

I too like to keep them as history. Aftering finding a cache and have returned to the car I add my notes about the find on the cache page and it then goes into a page protector in a three ring binder. Back home I log the find or finds on GC using the notes from the page. Once I have printed the photos taken at the cache they are then added to the associated cache page. The binder goes with me on each outing as I have the pages for caches to be found in the cover pocket. It makes a good "brag book", also and easy way to intoduce the sport to other. My grandchildren love to page through it to see what grandpa has been up to, also they can look at the pages of the caches they helped me find. When this binder is full I will start another. At least for now I am not interested in going paperless, I had enough of that in business before I retired. You will notice I am not discounting it all together. Ed We recently started caching as a family, and I decided to keep the printouts for my kids to be able to have a history of what we have accomplished. My daughter has asked to take the binder to show off at school, she is really starting to get into it and keeps her wanting to go back out instead of watching Sponge Bob Squarepants all evening

I would like to thank everyone for their input it was most helpful. I have more to consider now with the information that I have gained from you all. Maybe we will see you out on the trails or in the brush on day.

I was looking at a Magellan GPS 315 or a Magellan Blazer 12 @ Amazon.com

I recently received a gift certificate from Amazon.com and was planning to use it to purchase a GPSr. I have heard several times about different receivers that only displayed the minutes in four digits and how they weren't worth the money. How important is this to caching? I know the fifth digit will get you a little closer to your target, but isn't caching about the trill of the hunt. I guess I am asking if my family would be OK with a 4 digit display, we are just getting into caching.