krisandmel

Little trinkets and McToys are sometimes kinda cool, probably more so for the kiddies. My local hdwr store has a clearance table with all kinds of cool stuff. 4 pc sets of mini-6" bungee cords, mini-screwdriver sets, small spring clips, keychain compasses, LED flashlights, sharpening stones, watertight match containers, small tape measures, cheapo 'leatherman'-type tools, etc. All of these items are $0.99 to $3.00 each and all that I buy are small enough to fit in your palm (so they don't take up too much space in a cache). These are the kinds of things I like to find, stuff I can use, so I figure that's the stuff I'll leave for others too. -Kris

Have you previously interfaced the PC successfully with that GPSr? On my Legend C, I had to uninstall the drivers that Windows found, and reinstalled a driver I found on Garmin's site. Also, I screwed up initially by connecting the GPSr before loading the drivers. So I had to uninstall the driver, shutdown, restart, reinstall driver, shutdown, restart, and then the PC recognized my Legend C by name, when previously it thought it was an "external storage device". I also found that my PC likes me to connect the GPSr while OFF, and then turn on the GPSr once I've opened Mapsource. Otherwise it doesn't always like to interface. (Of course, I've had tons of issues with my PC lately, it doesn't always recognize itself, I think it had digital dementia!) Good luck! -Kris

Hi everyone, I got a Yellow eTrex about a month ago, but then got a Legend C when I realized I needed to be able to load street maps on it for trips. The Yellow one was an open-box AS IS sale, no returns, so it seems I am stuck with it. I haven't used it caching yet, as the Legend is so easy to use. But since both my wife and I 'cache it seems natural for us to carry along two GPSr's. On to my questions: The interface connections on the Yellow eTrex seem very strange. Just four gold dots. I've never seen anything like it. Is it worth buying or making a connection to the computer? Can I add waypoints with EasyGPS, LOC or GPX, just like on my Legend? With no thumb-joystick it's very painful to enter coords into the Yellow one manually, and I can see it would be very easy to mis-enter something. Have any of you modified the antenna and/or rigged up a re-radiating antenna to the Yellow eTrex? Or is this model just kind of limited to leaving a black trail of where I was with little aid in getting me anywhere? Thanks, BTW, I love this sport!!! -Kris

Thanks! I kinda figured I'd missed it somewhere. Well, 6 down, 281,965 to go! -K

Hi everyone! My wife and I are very new to this sport (6 finds, 1 placed) and so far we love it! I'm curious, how many caches are in the US, or worldwide? I looked around on the site trying to see if it's listed, but I didn't find anything. (If I missed something obvious, sorry.) On the Wikipedia page it says there are "well over 220,000" caches worldwide. A buddy of mine thought the number was in the millions. That's a big difference. Anyway, just thought I'd ask, and say "HI!". -Kris (of krisandmel)