TheAdamsNine

I have it on good authority that the GPS coordinates will be posted late Wednesday night. I have googled the Pinnacle Soloist and it is a pretty cool FTF prize. There are also some other cool items in the cache. The more people who join up to play, the better the prizes will be.

This sounds pretty cool: Look on the right side of the page. http://www.outsidegeorgia.com/

Thank you for the insight. It was some heavy canopy where we were searching and it was a micro and leaves were falling. Tough all around. With the kids doing this we will stick to larger geocaches.

It depends which iPhone we're talking about. The GPS receiver in the 3gs and older isn't that great, whereas the one in the 4 and newer is much better. What models are you and your wife using? I have the iPhone 4S and my wife has the iPhone 4.

In researching ideas for a magazine article, I came across geocaching. I had never heard of this sport before and got very excited upon researching this activity. I have 7 children and it is rare to find an activity that can be enjoyed by my 20 year oldmson as much as my 6 year old daughter. We are hooked. So, Sunday we set out and found our first geocache. We could not have picked a better first find. In a park, down a nature trail, off the trail, hidden in a hole in a tree. Traded some cool swag and the kids were going crazy. So we went to breakfast and I upgraded my iPhone app to the paid app for me and my wife and we set out on the next adventure. We were using two iPhones and neither were on the same page. We would be standing beside each other and I would be 12 feet away and she would be 72 feet away. Made no sense to me. Well, we logged a DNF and went to the next geocache. coordinates were off but we found it anyway. Even the log book said the coordinates were off. Then off to the next one. It was missing. Then, finally, the last geocache. That is where things got difficult. We were in the middle of the woods and we could not get an accurate reading. I shut my phone down and restarted it. I would be 20 feet away in one spot, then walk 200 ft away and still be 20 feet away. My question is: I really don't want to spend $300 on a GPSr but we really enjoy doing this. Is a dedicated GPSr THAT much better than an iPhone? Thanks in advance for your input. Dan