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Garmin Colorado Wiki: Miscellaneous The earlier thread suggested you look at questions M11 and M12.

Hi, rkstiens. Welcome. First, a possible problem that is easy to fix. The "Send to My GPS" popup defaults to DeLorme. Have you clicked on the tab for Garmin? If that is not the issue, it would help to know what operating system and browser you use.

Hi, rach641. If you can find a Magellan eXplorist GC with a European map, that may be just the ticket. It has buttons, like a remote control. It was made strictly for geocaching. I see North American units in your price range. You cannot add or upgrade maps in this unit, which is why you must make sure you are getting a unit suitable for the European market. It might also be possible to get a Garmin eTrex 20 in your budget. Garmin has more recently come out with a model called the eTrex 20x, so the plain "20" is a bit older. This GPS also uses buttons. It is newer than the eXplorist GC. It can do more than just geocaching. Free maps are available. Small size--it would not be too unwieldy for a child. An older Garmin that is worth a look is the Dakota 20. It is small in size, has free maps available, can do things besides geocaching. It has a touchscreen, like a smartphone. It can find Chirp caches. This might be out of your price range, though.

Before you drive to that location again, see if the geocaches really are on your GPS. Can you bring them up if you search by name or GC number? Second, have they been marked as found?

The default for "send to my GPS" is DeLorme. Are you switching to the Garmin tab?

Do you retain ownership? Or will you let the recipient adopt the coin?

If you had some elbow joints, you could make a complicated-looking contraption where the finder had to drop a golf ball in one end to get the cache container to shoot out another opening. If you did this, though, you'd probably also have to provide instructions on how to get the container back in its "impossible" spot. Maybe a capped pipe on a T-joint.

I tried to get two existing pocket queries this morning. One worked, one didn't. The PQ that hasn't run today was last used more than two months ago, and is a route. I'm going to try unchecking it and asking for it again, and see if that works.

It was working for awhile, now hosed again. SeaMonkey on Win XP Pro SP3. It is similar to the image in the first post, except I don't get even the yellow dot anymore. Dashboard says I have a new message, but I can't see ANY messages. After I cleared cache and cookies, I got a Communications Error.

Same here, in SeaMonkey on Windows 7.

Welcome. Regarding the mysterious containers near the trail, you should be aware that there is also another older game called letterboxing. Some geocaches are letterbox hybrids, that is, they are both geocaches and letterboxes. A letterbox should have a rubber stamp in it. Visitors use the stamp in their personal notebook, and in turn, use their personal stamp on the letterbox's logbook. If it's near a mountain peak, it could be a summit register. The containers could be abandoned or never posted, as you said. Or they might not be a geocache at all, just something random and odd.

I sincerely hope not. I do not want to be required to use a third-party site for any aspect of geocaching, hiding or finding. Since Project-GC relies on pocket queries, this option would block basic members from challenge caches if finders as well as hiders were required to use the checker.

Did Not Find. Sign the log, get a smiley. There's not an exception for Saw It, Got Within Five Feet of It, Had a Scare, and Narrowly Escaped Injury. Great story, but not a find. Or, the other way around, not a find, but a great story. You can regale other geocachers you meet with the dramatic story of your adventures trying to get this cache.

How to use a Geocoin (travel bugs work similarly.

Yes, as a cache hider you would be responsible for replacing the log if it gets filled up or cannot be signed anymore.

Not sure how it works with a smartphone, but if you use the web site to log your finds, every time you write a log about a cache, there is a list towards the bottom of the screen with all of the geocoins and travel bugs you have. Next to each trackable, there is a dropdown list for "Action". Arrow down to "visit" before you submit your log.

It's safe to delete the whole folder. If you want to be extra cautious, you could copy the folder to a computer or thumb drive, and then delete it from the GPS.

Fantastic! I'm glad the file transfer is working for you.

No, highly unlikely. The .gpx files are not binary; they use ordinary text and simple markup, like an HTML file would. You could open a .gpx file in a terminal or text editor and read everything that is in there. Here are a few more possibilities, although they are shots in the dark. 1. Are the caches that don't show up on the Garmin ones that you have already found? 2. Or do you have a large number of .gpx files on the Garmin? It doesn't sound like it, but just checking. 3. Or is there some overlap, where you might have information on the same cache from different dates, e.g., one time it is by itself, and another time it is in a PQ you ran at a later date? 4. Or do you have a mix of .gpx and .loc files for geocaches? 5. Or did a hider go crazy with the fancy formatting on the cache page for one of the caches that won't show up?

That sounds like the right place if the first GARMIN is the mounted device. Are the caches in this pocket query distant from your current location? If so, you may have to look for them by name or by using the map.

Which folder on the Garmin are you copying the GPX files to? And if there were two GPX files when you unzipped a pocket query, did you copy both of them to the eTrex?

I think I may have found the answer. You have to be using the geocaching profile on the Montana when you are looking for geocaches. If you are not in the geocaching profile when you mark a geocache found, your only choice is to choose the next cache from the list or turn the unit off.