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Congratulations on hitting 200 at Lidwell Chapel last Friday.. well done !!

this is my first gps and it is great for geocaching. I get within 10 feet of the cache under a decent amount of tree cover. defenetly great for anyone starting out or at a medium level of intrest. Good, tough and water resistant. the case is decent also. note: go to amazon i got it for $99 before shipping.After shipping it was $120 and the case was 10. I also got an unexcpected rebate that ends tomorrow for $30 so i ended up buying it for $100 case and gps.

Congratulations to skate, who reached 200 finds at my and Maz62's Torquay View (Devon) cache today!

what should i get? im not compeletly sold on eirhter

I've read through the full manual & can't seem to fine an answer to my question. I have several local (close to home) POIs in my unit. When on the map screen they all show. Is there a way to only show the "GoTo" one you're currently working on? The rest just clutter up the screen. Thanks for your help.

Bought one yesterday for my grandson. He doesn't want it unless there is an audible beep when the cashe is close. It does not tell on the packaging. It does not tell on the website. Can someone that has one please answer this? TIA

This is not a "Getting Started" question, so I moved your thread to a more appropriate forum section. From a Reviewer's perspective, your proposal would give me nightmares. We already see people doing all sorts of creative things to get around the 528 foot proximity rule. Enabling them to simply choose "Large" as the cache size in order to skirt the rule just means that they can switch the size post-publication to achieve their "objective." How do I enforce the special rule for "Large" size caches only? These are fairly rare, by the way. Do I require a photo and verification that the container size meets the minimum standards? That will add time to the review process. What happens if I say that a 50 cal ammo box is a "Regular," not a "Large?" How do you know that this would "not be a hard change for the IT folks?" Do you have insight into the Reviewer toolbox, and specifically the Litmus Test module? It works great now, but it would be quite a change to the UI to call out "Large" size caches only, in addition to the underlying code for the exemption. What is the shorter separation distance you're advocating for? 400 feet? 200? In my experience, "Large" caches are either hidden way out in the woods, where muggles are less likely to come across them, or as gadget type caches at someone's residence where there is less likelihood of a cache saturation issue. Micros out in the woods, where a Large might be hidden, tend to be frowned upon. If micros in the woods are prevalent in your area, perhaps the better path might be to hide more non-micro caches in the woods and encourage others to do the same.

Congratulations to my UK geocaching friend, walkergeoff, for reaching geocache find #200 on Saturday, September 23, 2005! Geoff, may you find many more caches! Happily, Darsantre (in Turkey) PS I know this isn't under the Pinned: Congratulations thread, but after seeing it was 9 pages long on the discussion of whether to have a pinned thread on this topic or not, I didn't want others to get so bogged down by reading the whole 9 pages before they added their congratz to WG as well.

Congratulations to rev n doc on reaching 200 caches over the weekend. Great show and thanks for placing some cool caches around these parts, we have enjoyed all the ones we have done. We have now forgiven you for grabbing the first Milton Keynes White Jeep the other week. Gary (KiwiGary)

All right everybody, yes, i know, im probably nuts, but if anybody has a used eXplorist 100 or 200 and wants to sell it between $25 and $50 dollars, i might be interested. Keyword is MIGHT, still thinking, but i am trying to maybe get my friend a GPS for Christmas. I would also like a backup for myself, so that when i go geocaching with friends it is not necessary for one of us to miss out on the fun of holding the GPS ALL THE WAY TO THE CACHE!!! It helps eliminate questions similar to are we there yet, only in geocaching terms, "How much farther" every, i dunno, 60 seconds. Take mercy on me, im young, don't got a job (don't blame me for that, they won't let me until i'm sixteen.) If you have one of these models (or a different one for that matter, im not to fussy, especially if you wanted to give me a eXplorist 60 for 15 dollars or a Garmin Legend for 2) and are interested in selling them at these prices, drop me an email at tucsongeocacher@gmail.com and we can negotiate a potential deal. At this point i am not too serious, but depending on the price i just might buy it!

Hi everyone, Another new guy here, trying to figure out what works best for caching and of secondary importance--road trips. Radio shack is selling the Ex500 for 175 after rebates, and I saw a Cx for $242. Which is the way to go, or is there a better option? I saw a very attractive 210 package, but I'm a little worried about not having a card for it. Which brings me to my last question--I just bought a Palm M500, so do I even need a GPS with a SD card? If you made it through all that and can help me, many thanks!!! P.S. Found my first cache today--hoorah!

I see that the running cache info on the website's homepage is about to roll over to 200,000 active caches! Wow. Congratulations to all who have contributed to geocaching's growth. I just passed my one year mark and am having a great deal of fun. Kudo's to Jeremy and staff, moderators etc - this site runs pretty darn well given the number of people involved in this activity.

Jeremy and all Geocachers, Congratulations on making it past the 200,000 mark!!!!. This is a major milestone, and means I only have 199,590 to go, and 216 more countries. Again, CONGRATULATIONS!!!

I have a Magellan Explorist 200...just found out this weekend at the INKY Geo Picnic that I can enter in waypoints! What else am I missing??? )

TigerDirect has them here.

Hey Fellow Geocachers! I just bought my first GPSr and dont know if the results are fair, good, or bad. I bought a Magellan eXplorist 200. Ive been using it and finding that it takes alittle time to get a connection and then the accuracy is so so, its either between 80ft and 130ft, or it goes down to 20 ft to 36 ft. How does this compare to units within the $150 to $250 or so price range, and is there a better unit? Also I dont need many bells and wistles. I have a GPS navigation system in my car so that helps me with getting to caches on the larger scale. Thanks, Jeff B

A big congratulations to KandG who joined the UK Hall of Fame today in completing their 200th find whilst also completely Messe's new AQY series around Banbury that ends in the idyllic surroundings of Wroxham Abbey Carry on Caching and lets hope the next 100 are just as good as the last ones .... Well done ;-) (Thought you were going to get to the Bonus while I was stuck in the office today ... almost sorry we didnt get there together )

A HUGE congrats to Gary & Margaret for hitting 200 at the Shropshire event. It was a real pleasure to cache with you two, The Jnr's loved your company too, especially with a Dinosaur pressie at the end of a cache. Hope you have a few more finds in this country, before you head off home! Well done!

Well done to Mick & Chris, who passed 200 on Sunday! Cheers! Dom

Hallo Accu, der Unterschied zwischen aktiviert/unaktiviert ist ein bisschen wir genutzt/ungenutzt. Da man Coins eigentlich immer aktivieren kann (wenn man den Aktivierungscode hat ;-)), sind sie unaktiviert als "Neumodell" tendenziell etwas wertvoller als Sammelobjekt, aber natürlich unaktiviert auch zu nichts anderem zu gebrauchen. Es kann schon sein, dass so eine Serie einen gewissen Sammlerwert hat, wenn sie heute nicht mehr hergestellt werden. Es gibt ja manche Cacher(innen), die Coins sammeln und die zahlen da vielleicht schon ein paar Euro dafür. Reich wirst du aber nicht werden. :-( Eine gute Richtlinie, was die Coins wert sind, wäre für mich, was du selbst bezahlt hast. Ich nehme an, dass du die Coins vor Kurzem geholt hast und nicht schon 10 Jahre rumliegen hast - Wertsteigerung passiert hier höchstens über die Zeit, wie gesagt, zum Beispiel, wenn die Coins nicht mehr hergestellt werden. Wenn du die vier Coins vor Kurzem für sagen wir mal 50 Euronen gekauft hast, dann würde ich jetzt nicht damit rechnen, dass du sie für 200 wieder verkaufen kannst. Was hast du denn - Größenordnung! - bezahlt? Normalerweise würde ich vorschlagen, bei deinem Plan zu bleiben, aktiviere sie, nimm sie zu Events mit, zeige sie Freunden - dann haben die Coins einen gewissen Sinn. Ich nutze Tracking-Codes schöner Coins auch gerne als Gimmicks zum Entdecken in meinen Caches. Ansonsten würde ich mal schauen, ob du Geocoin-Sammler-Foren oder Facebookgruppen oder so etwas zu dem Thema findest. Ein echter "Coiner" kann dir sicher mehr sagen und auch ein Angebot machen. ;-) Herzliche Grüße und viel Spaß beim Cachen - Trackables haben da meiner Meinung nach eigentlich recht wenig mit zu tun - Jochen PS: Ich fand deine Anfrage übrigens völlig klar formuliert und verstehe Alferics Beitrag nicht.

Hello All, I saw so many posts looking for a low cost starter GPS that when I saw this posted on another forum I figured I'd post it here as well. link It's at tigerdirect.com if the link doesn't work. It's the best price I could find anywhere for a new unit. Here's the thread from where I first saw the post fatwallet link Just for easy comparison here's a froogle price comparison froogle Hope this helps someone. Bibba

Congratulations on reaching your 200 Weary Banker & Bookworm Onwards and upwards!

Congrats to Stellarscapes on find #200! The milestone cache was GCQ0PN Honey Run Hide.

CONGRATULATIONS!!! Felipe and family, Nice job on collecting smiles.....

Big congrats to The Land Rovers got their 200 on my church bridge set today