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Ugh...Need to get a real GPS..the car dedicated nuvi is just no cutting it anymore. I have a eTrex Legend but gave up on it almost immediately for it's screen. I wear bifocals and find it very hard to read. Looking at the Dakota 10 but EMS currently has the 20 on sale for $239! Not sure if going up a model is best. My biggest question is screen readability.....I have a PalmPre phone and that is great...how does that compare to the Dakota screens? I went to three stores today hoping to see one in action..Not one place could get theirs powered up... Where can you get an Oregon 200? Seem few and far between and I am wondering if this is no long offered by Garmin? Too many choices, prices all over the place....All we want to do is day hike with the kids and take paperless geocaches with us. Any suggestions?

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I just purchased a garmin oregon 200 from the Groundspeak website and am waiting for it to arrive. I was just wondering if anyone knew if Mac OSX will support the software, or am I going to have to use windows? If anyone has any info, it would be much appreciated!!!

Me and my boyfriend just purchased our first geocaching gps today, the triton 200, and I am starting to regret the decision of buying this particular one!! The users manual was very unhelpful. We cannot for the life of us figure out how to enter coordinates into it and then get it to lead us to them. If anybody has this particular gps please help!! Thanks!!

Update: In order to test my idea and revive my caching in my home area, I have been revisiting over 200 caches during 2020! I do that with the rules that I have set up for myself: Must be at least 2 years since original find. Mysts and multis should be solved again. Only once per cache (or maybe after another 2 years, but that is irrelevant now). All revisits are properly recorded in a revisit history. Conclusion: In most cases, it feels like new! Caches are moved, vegetation has changed, I have often forgotten about the hiding place and/or the surroundings (especially when 7-8 years have passed). And I gave myself over 200 extra reasons to go out caching, often including cycling or walking long enough to be decent exercise. My own home area is suddenly fresh and new to explore as caching area. And I can do caching without travelling long distances to find ones I havn't logged.

Hi, I have been geocaching without a GPSr for about 3 years. Last week after several DNFs I decided it was time and bought an Oregon 200 with TOPO Canada. It seems that the mapping is not loaded on the GPSr. It came on a separate cd and I have installed on my computer. I just don't know how to load it onto the GPSr. Right now when we use the GPSr it only shows our location, the cache's location but no terrain details. Am I missing something? Any help is appreciated, Flavia

I have owned a Garmin Oregon 200 for about a year now. I have two questions, that I can't seem to find answers for in my own searches, hoping someone here can help. First off, is there any way to adjust the sensitivity of the screen? It is REALLY hard to scroll the screen on it, and other Oregon users have even commented on how difficult it is to scroll it. I can't use a screen protector, because it makes it even worse. It's to the point that it is actually getting scratched you have to scroll so hard. Resetting the unit does not help. Also, everything I read says that it should have wireless data exchange capabilities, but I'll be darned if we have ever been able to figure out how to do it. Anyone know? Thanks in advance for the help!

Hi All, I have an Oregon 200 thats about 6 months old. Lately evrytime I connect it to the pc it goes into "saving waypoint" mode and once it hits 100% powers down. I've tried it on another laptop and the same thing occurs. Is this an issue with the unit or software or has anyone had this happen to them as well? Any help would be most appreciated before the pc and the GPSr end up being launched thru the upstairs window into the street! just kidding.....but very frustrated.

Where can I find the best maps to add to my Oregon 200? I am desperate to get out caching but don't have any basemaps or anything on my new toy so I need some help. I would like to have Alberta, Saskatchewan and BC on the maps but anything additional would be great. What do you use? We are in Calgary and I have posted this to the calgary area cachers page as well. thanks 3 billygoats

I just loaded a new gpx and map onto my oregon, and now when I turn it on, it starts to go through the loading process, until it says "loading waypoints, tracks and routes", when it just turns itself off. Any ideas? I can't really take it to Garmin, because I'm traveling with it tomorrow.

I have a Magellan Triton 200, its a pretty basic GPS that is easy to use. We got it a year ago and found a lot of caches on it. Its a very good beginner GPS and for a good price. derkgrant@yahoo.com 209-568-6861

I have just started the geocaching hobby and have a question. I am using a Garmin Nuvi 200 and seem to have a problem getting close to caches. Does anyone else use this gps? If so what kind of luck are you having?

Received Pocket Query in e-mail program. Zip file attachment. Clicked Download on e-mail attachment and it opens up in EasyGPS program. However when I try and send to GPS it doesn't send. No error messages are produced. Unhook GPS Oregan 200 from USB cable. Turn on and nothing is downloaded. I don't have any problems going to Geocache.com and clicking on individual caches and using the send icon next to the cache listing. Also used the other link that comes with Pocket Query where you click on the link and it takes you to Geocache.com, you have the option of selecting all boxes and clicking on download. This also sends me to EasyGPS and once again no luck on downloading to GPS. Any suggestions? Thanks for your help.

is there any info on using the oregon 200 with map source or gsak? would like to know how to load gpx files so they end up in the geocache icon and not waypoints icon? also how would you change coords for multi caches?

Of course, no matter how often I check it, things can happen. But I trust the logs. If the last log is 1 month ago and says the cache was in good shape, for me that is as good as checking it. If it goes a year without a find, I'll check it. There, I've said a specific time. Well, approximately. I'll make a note to check it, it might not be exactly 1 year that I actually check it. I was talking to a friend the other day. A very good CO. He owns around 200 caches, but maintains them. Any hint of an issue he'll address it. He said he has an ammo can which he hasn't visited since he placed in 9 years ago. It gets found regularly and no issues have been reported. You can argue he is not meeting his obligations and the cache should be archived or whatever.. but to me that is unnecessary. And that's just it - if you only own one cache, visiting it once a year isn't much, but if you own 200, having to visit each of them every year wouldn't leave much time for anything else, particularly if a lot were high-terrain rated and required considerable effort to reach. If you can't reasonably manage 200 cache hides you need to cut back. Only hide what you can manage. Better to have 25 monitored and maintained caches then an extra 175 caches that get no attention and become junk. Why this assumption that any cache that doesn't have the CO constantly visiting it will rapidly turn into junk? It sounded to me like you were excusing people who owned a lot of caches. My take on what you said was: If you own one then of course you can manage it regularly, if you own hundreds of course you can't. Someone with 200 active cache hides is likely to use cheap containers. Even at a dollar per container it will cost them $200. In my experience dollar store containers are leaky. Cheap bulk buy containers like bison tubes are leaky. Most likely those containers will be pill bottles, food containers, film canisters, bulk-buy bison tubes -- anything that can be bought cheaply in bulk, or rescued from the trash for free. And it's likely that prolific hiders will not hide anything bigger then an aspirin jar because it's easier to carry a sackful of pill bottles and drop them while travelling. Cheap containers need upkeep more often. Micro containers need upkeep more often -- the logsheet fills up faster and is often unsignable because it's soaked. From my experience people who hide 100s of caches rely on others to at least replace the log when it fills up or gets soaked. And finders will, which encourages COs to continue hiding 100s of cheap containers that they can't reasonably get to when problems happen. Nice. It looks like a tiffin box (lunch boxes used in India). Metal, sturdy latch. Very nice. My one concern is I don't see a gasket. Have you tried putting it under water? If it's watertight, that's an impressive container. Can you imagine hiding 200 of these?

Hey all, CFE or Crit here. Located in Mid-Michigan and been caching on and off since 2014 as a wee lad. I'm quite younger than most veteran cachers, but have recently been reinvigorated with the love for the art by introducing a new friend to caching and we've been on a spree finding them since. For having cached for as many years as I have, it may be surprising that I just recently got over the 200-find mark. But as life tends to be, I do not have easy transport access and was really only able to find those within bicycle distance for the longest time. Hoping to change that soon and change is already in progress. I'm still very proud that the first cache I hid back in 2014 is still around to this day, even if I can't be there to do maintenance on it. I really want that ownership transferred, yeesh... Best find? Probably one in the woods with a bunch of multicolored bison tubes and only 1 of the tubes had the log inside. Either that or a walk down a deertrail to an abandoned piece of wall with elaborate graffiti on it. Cheers, and glad to be a part of this community for this long, and my goal is to keep the trade going for as long as I can, being part of the newer generation of cachers...

Does anyone know what the differences between the Oregon 200 and 300 basemaps are? I know the 300's basemap is twice the size but I don't know what the main differences are.

hey, I've got my new oregon 200 for almost a month now, and yesterday I was doing a multicache along with some friends, and at the end we needed to navigate 80 degrees TRUE for 261 meters. the friend of mine, who had a GPSMap CSx could program the gps that it would navigate for exactly 261 meters in a 80 degrees course. my question is: can I also do that with my oregon 200, if yes HOW? thanks Thiebins

Does anyone use a Garmin Oregon 200? I am looking for a middle of the road GPS and looking at one of those... I will use it on my motorcycle for turn by turn routing and geocaching but would like to be paperless. Are they paperless.. ie. can I load info from the cache page, size/terrain/difficulty etc? I notice they also accept sdmicro cards. Don't need tons of bells and whistles!!! Can you enter coords, then have the turn by turn directions? thanks

I would like to download multiple cache sites on my Oregon 200 and haven't got a clue how to do it. Can someone explain, in words of 1 syllable, how it is done. Thank you.

I just got an Oregon 200 and would like to find a destination turn x turn software. I just want to be able to pop my addy in and my destination addy... I hear there are shareware maps out there. Any idea where I might look and which are the good ones? I really don't want to pay 50 or 60 bucks for the minimal use I would use it. thanks

Does anyone know where I might find info on The Oregon 200 and whether it takes advantage of a 16MB memory card... or if it will even work in it..!?

Me and my boyfriend just purchased our first geocaching gps today, the triton 200, and I am starting to regret the decision of buying this particular one!! The users manual was very unhelpful. We cannot for the life of us figure out how to enter coordinates into it and then get it to lead us to them. If anybody has this particular gps please help!! Thanks!!

I am thinking about getting a Garmin Oregon 200 for geocaching. Any advice out there? Does anybody have one? Basically I am looking to get a unit for under $300. Have geocached before using a car GPS...painful. Advice greatly appreciated!

Hi; We are new to geocaching... We just bought a Garmin ORegon 200 and are trying to download cache information to our gps. We're not sure what we are doing wrong. Can anybody give us step-by-step directions? We have it hooked up to the computer, we've updated the driver, we've tried saving the file to the computer and on to the gps (though perhaps not in the right place). Help! Thanks!