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Thanks. Don’t find it that intuitive overall but still preferable to my smart phone and I’m slowly getting to grips with it and the kind forum folk / community help too!

Ok. Thanks. Like I said hoping to try it out on this basis tomorrow. Annoyingly having to use on classic mode to prevent the silly issue makes the existence of a dedicated geocache profile rather redundant. Thanks again for all input from everyone.

A potential solution to a design flaw! Thanks. I’m hoping to go out with it at the weekend so I’ll test all these useful tips out.

Classic mode is off. Thanks.

Thanks. I’ll happily take any assistance / thoughts I can get.

Cool. Thanks. I’ll give the routing setting a whirl. I actually only updated software at weekend and TBH I’ve not had it out caching since then.

Thanks. They are added as caches and the symbols are clearly caches rather than waypoints and I’m doing it through the geocache profile on the menu. Really annoying. Thanks for the quick replay by the way.

Hi. I’m relatively new to geocaching but have an etrex25 to save using my phone and on the whole I like it and get on well with it. My two questions, which I’d be grateful for answers on from fellow 25 owners are: 1) I load the cache and GPS happily navigates me there which is grand. However when I seem to get there (ground zero or thereabouts) it seems to lose the cache from the active navigation. This means I have to ‘go’ to cache again to see the cache page (hints, logs, descriptions etc) which is really annoying and seems to need doing multiple times due to this issue. Is there a way to stop this? It’s like a car satnav at when it reaches the destination it removes the destination from active routing. No issue in a car satnav but annoying when you want to look at cache page when your in the caches vicinity. I end up having to look at cache page on my phone which largely defeats point of dedicated GPS. I’ve just updated to v3.80 of software by the way. 2) Has anyone got details of the optimum set up that works well for them is using the device exclusively for geocaching? I do do appreciate there are manuals for the device but don’t really feel they help answer the above. Any comments relating to the etrex25 gratefully received. Thanks!

Thanks. It’s like you know me as I don’t have the tiniest fingers so this was one of my worries. I’ll also be unlikely geocaching the peak of Everest so gloves are not an issue. The 20x is cheaper too. Any other thoughts welcomed.

I’m considering buying a GPS and am torn between the etrex 20x and 25. While there is a lot of information available about the differences between the two (mainly one being joystick based and one touchscreen, and a few more points), does anyone have hands on experience with both and can offer an informed decision on their preference and why? Thanks.