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You will need some additional software, but you won't see your unit as an external drive. You'll need a newer model for that. First, download and install the Garmin USB drivers. This will make your PC recognise your Vista. Second, you will need additional software to put GPX files onto your Vista. Free programs are MapSource, BaseCamp or EasyGPS.

Arrived in Athens, Greece today prior to my Adriatic Coast cruise starting 2/11. Made my first Greek find with the first cache I looked for then DNFd two others. This time I had a Europe SIM for my phone whic worked fine. I also had my Garmin loaded up before I left home thanks to GSAK. Both devices were working well in the city. Tomorrow I plan to do a Big Bus tour to find some more - it's a Ho-Ho.

After years of reliably downloading PQs, last week my Oregon 700 suddenly stopped showing the downloaded PQ of geocaches. Oddly enough the downloaded PQ of waypoints does show up. It doesn't make any difference whether I download the cache/s by using EasyGPS or by directly moving the download into the Garmin GPX folder - the cache PQ is there in the Garmin folder but doesn't show up on the screen, yet the waypoints in the same folder do show up. I can record tracks and manually add waypoints as usual - it only seems to be cache downloads that are not working. I have deleted waypoints and deleted archived tracks from the Garmin, in case there was any space issue, although there should still be plenty of space. And I've done a reset. Nothing helps. Any ideas what the problem might be and what to try next?

I get this error message when trying to upload geocache_visits.txt from my Garmin Montana 610 "Failed to get caller activity. 'take' can not be greater than 50 is not in the correct format." The file only contains 1 line. Not sure what "take" is and why it's greater than 50? I was able to upload drafts as late as Oct 20th - 4 days ago. What has changed since and when will it be fixed? Thanks! xcure

I have an older Garmin Drive Smart unit and I use GSAK to load caches on to it. However, I just don’t load them directly onto the Garmin. I use Garmin POI Loader that interfaces with GSAK by way of a macro available on the GSAK site. The geocaches are loaded as “points of interest” rather than “favorites”. Not sure if you have already tried this or if this something different than how you were doing it with your old unit.

I have used GSAK and Nuvi GPS for years. The Nuvi died and is no longer available. I bought a DriveSmart and discovered that that GPS will not accept the GPS data. Will the Garmin RV795 accept and display geocaches?

I am now home from my South Korean tour. And, I achieved my objective to find at least one cache. I also arrived home with a travel bug - TB code = COVID 19. I managed my one and only find late at night on the last day. I tried, possibly, every possible way to make it hard for myself to find a cache. I had planned to buy a SIM before leaving home but I surmised, incorrectly, that it would be easy to pick one up in a modern, technologically savvy country but this was not the case. I did not see any for sale in Seoul airport. Hmm. I asked at my hotel and was directed to a street kiosk a few blocks away. They only sold one type with little data but unlimited calls. I thought I should try and find another store but had no luck. For the rest of my tour I did not see another The tour I was on was full on and left not a lot of free time outside of finding somewhere to eat for lucnch and dinners. There were "markets" but these were pretty much selling food and clothing. One day we had lunch in a huge department store but all I could find there was an Apple store and Garmin watch store. I resorted to minimal roaming usage after first checking areas near our hotels. There were few opportunities but time would overrule potential finds. There was one time when I was about 20m from a traditional but could not go after it as we were to board a boat for a night river cruise. Another time I accidently left my phone on the bus and found, on my return, that we had been right at an easy Virtual - Cheomseongdae Observatory - GCAJJKV DOH! My last day was very long and tiring. It included going down into the DMZ Third Tunnel of Aggression where I reckon I picked up my bug. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Tunnel_of_Aggression There are no caches allowed anywhere near the DMZ. Following a posh, eight course, Korean last-night dinner we returned late to our hotel. Back in my room I checked the surrounding area on my laptop to discover a Traditional only 150m away. This time I was using my phone with a AU$10 a day internaional roaming plan I managed to instal (after a lot of trouble with a call centre person who I could barely understand and who was more intent on trying to sell me a new phone) two nights earlier after finally getting through to my provider. Minutes later I had an easy Found it. Circular Square Traditional Cache GCAM0P7 Geocaching was an activity well down the list for this South Korean holiday. For me, it was a personal trial run to see if I could cope for the first time, on my own, without my life partner of fifty years who passed a little over six years ago. I now feel a little more confident about my Adriatic, Italy and Greece cruise coming up in two weeks. And, I intend to be a little better prepared to add a couple more countries to my stats.

Over a decade ago I was shocked when mid-vacation my Garmin Etrex 30 said it had no caches loaded. In fact, it had a GPX and had been reading it fine for the last couple days. A day or two later, the Etrex just as abruptly found the file and its geocaches again. I thought this was a fluke. I think that GPSr had one similar brain fart a few years later. I now have an Etrex 32. I used the unit just fine yesterday. Today I turned it on and it was asking me to load geocaches. Is there any known cause for this sporadic bug, or is it just an unpredictable fluke? Without having a computer handy to actually reload the GPX files, is there any trick that might make it recognize the current GPX files?

Estou a tentar montar uma cache com um arduino e com um ponto intermédio com um Geocaching Garmin Chirp mas não encontro nehum sitío para vende alguem vende em 2ª mão?

There is also a Statistics setting in your general Privacy settings: Make sure that one's set to Public too. It's possible you may have inadvertently changed some settings when not wanting to, like if your phone is bumping around in your pocket or you accidently clicked on something while moving the mouse across the screen. I have that happen frequently on my Garmin GPSr then spend ages trying to get it back the way I want it.

With any computing device, you should have backups. Doubly so when it's a portable that you can easily lose, drop, dunk, or drive over it. Lee737's correct. Your data is plain ole GPX. GPX is one of the best supported file formats in the industry and GPSBabel will probably help get it into those that can't read GPX. IMO, Garmin's adoption of GPX really is one of our (the GPX creators & maintainers) success stories. Your data isn't held in a propiretary file format; you can (usually) just drag and drop the files into whatever eats GPX files and get to a happy place, unlike the terrible old days of Mapsource's era of reverse engineering binary formats to promote interoperability.

You can save a copy of the Garmin/GPX folder from the device onto your computer - all of your saved WPs are in there.... its worth doing. Mine went into my pocket unlocked once, came out with everything deleted....

I still have and use a Garmin Oregon 750t; it works well, although the "lifetime" maps are no longer supported by Garmin. I have marked and saved a bunch of waypoints over the years, including every campsite we have (RV) camped in since we started in 2017. I would like to transfer all that data to some sort of program/application for posterity, but not sure it can be done.

I currently cache with an iPhone and Cachly after a long history with Garmin of various sizes, shapes, and screen quality. Most of the Garmins eventually died or wore out (the power buttons on the Dakota 20 were a particular weak spot). The two remaining advantages a dedicated GPSr has compared to Cachly and an iPhone is it's ability to draw a track on the map combined with the Trackback feature and push buttons when it's cold enough to need gloves. Otherwise the larger variety of preloaded maps, larger screen size, ease of entering a log and images in the field, access to caches anywhere, and ease of use of the touchscreen makes the cell phone the clear choice for me unless the temperature is below freezing. (I've tried the "touch screen" gloves but haven't found they work well). Once I figured out that you do not need a cell signal to cache if you plan ahead, the Garmins were retired from the Game.

I waited until I'd made the recommended 20 finds, which took me 2 months from the time I started caching. While there were a lot more caches around here than there are now, I was still in full-time work then and caching was strictly a weekend-only activity that had to fit in with everything else that could only be done at the weekends. For someone starting here now, they'd have to do a fair bit of travelling or be keen on long T3+ hikes to get to 20 finds, especially if they were a basic member exclusively using the official app. My first hide was fairly mundane as such things go, being a 400ml Sistema placed in a hollow between a large rock and a tree in a bushland reserve close to home. Its coordinates, which I took with my Garmin GPSMAP 62 and averaged over several visits, were within the accepted tolerance, and it got 53 finds and no FPs (and no DNFs, NMs or NAs either) in its 18 months of life. I archived it when a large tree fell right on top of its hiding place, which was rather ironic as the cache's "One Windy Night" theme was all about a particularly fierce wind storm a few years earlier that felled several large trees in the reserve. Had I waited until now, with over a decade in the game and nearly 2000 finds under my belt, I probably wouldn't have done much differently for my first hide. The Sistemas make good reliable containers as long as they're kept out of direct sunlight, and placing it close to home I think is a good idea for a first hide. Most of what I've learnt since about cache-hiding has come from the experience of hiding caches and seeing what worked well and what didn't, not from finding large quantities of them.

......Im not noob, caching almost since its interception in the UK, I must have created hundreds of PQ's in the past but now for the life of me I cant do it, I want GPX files for my Garmin 700 and want to get it emailed to me, but I can't get an email and all i get from the query is a LOC files, help its driving me crazy, and BTW I do have a correct email (primary) and have gpx format in the box.

An old phone with no SIM card. Remove all unnecessary apps. Load a caching app that works well fully offline, eg Locus Map on Android, Cachly on iOS as particularly offline-happy examples. Load maps and caches over WiFi (or cable, if you can disable WiFi somehow) at home, much as you would an old-skool Garmin. Include a power bank and cable (modern equivalent to "spare batteries"), though the built-in battery should last longer without cell connection and many apps active. PS, congrats on raising kids who are happy doing longish hikes in the countryside! PPS, satellite view probably won't be free, nor will the best software that includes it. PPPS, on my recent trip to UK, I bought a chunk of OS maps (also not free), and was appalled at the quality compared to OSM, OpenStreetMap. Check out OSM, which comes in many apps under various names. PPPPS, a single app subscription with a cost (eg for stuff like satellite view), will cover any number of devices under the same account, eg including the kids. So buy it once for yourself, and the kids get it for free. You could even have multiple geo-accounts sharing a single Android account.

At this point, it may be worth just getting an older phone, putting a geocaching app on it, and then linking the data to your phone. As long as it has data incoming, it can load maps and do the rest without needing a SIM card or phone plan. Edit, you said you'd looked at this, and I skimmed past that part. For battery power, you can get a 3rd party battery pack. We have our daughter on an iPhone 5, I think, with a form-fitting battery pack. (And no SIM.) But a used Garmin Oregon would be doable for this. Not the hugest screen in the world, a Montana would have a bigger display, but it's also chunky and more awkward for 7 year old hands.

Sadly, I lost interest in Geocaching years ago. It was more fun to me with the old school Garmin GPS. The world has actually changed quite a bit in the short amount of time since then... I used to live in a big city, but it was a nice area at the time and a lot of fun. When smart phones became something everyone had all of the sudden, it attracted the wrong crowd. It went from mostly respectful people, really into the hobby to random people with just no respect at all. I'd post a cache and come back to see the cool little spot I was sharing with everyone suddenly covered with graffiti & trash. It seems that people have just gotten really awful in the 15 years since I found my first geocache. I've posted caches and waited for them to be approved by the mod... only to have them found before they were ever posted. Of course the moderators had some of the highest "first to find" counts in the entire hobby. Seriously? What kind of person takes pride in "winning" like THAT? I've had caches just a few feet away from my house stolen or vandalized so many times per month, I had to archive them because it just became too much. Finding used gum, crumpled up trash and other stuff like that in my caches at the nice spot I set up for everyone, became regrettable fast. Luckily, I quit before the homeless epidemic of today. Most all of the best hidden & tucked away spots I used to find or hide caches in, now have tents in them or are being used for "bathrooms"... or worse. Off the top of my head, I can think of at least 3 times of being confronted by noisy neighbors or bored security guards shoving cameras in my face and trying to intimidate me because they had no idea what I was doing... so it must be something bad. Then there's the lazy, entitled people who can't bring a simple piece of paper, a container or DO ANYTHING to contribute at all to the hobby. "TFTC"... really? How creative. Don't even bother. Just type an "F" so you don't have to work so hard. So bring all the kids, trash the place, leave your tags everywhere, contribute nothing and wonder why nobody wants to entertain you anymore. So there's your many reasons for the decline. Believe it or not, I'm not here to trash Geocaching at all; I really miss it. There's just a lot of elephants in the room dragging it down. It seems to me, it's moving more towards rural areas only. Something for hikers and locations that are FAR away from the riff raff that have messed it up in urban and even suburban areas. People who have to travel and put in effort to find something are a lot more likely to be thoughtful, respectful and not trash what they find. It's also moving more towards a "pay to play" experience. People who invest money into a hobby have something invested and care about it more. I feel that everything just needs a serious update. A few strategic additions could really make the entire thing popular again. Here's a few ideas: Advertisement... a lot of it - Few people even know what Geocaching is. It needs to start attracting the right types of people. The right "influencer" can make something blow up overnight. Retail exposure - Seeing a few GEOCACHING items in Wal-Mart & Target would clearly bring in new blood. Sponsorship - I've seen people literally get into fights over a free T-shirt they'll never even wear. It's amazing how free stuff or things that are "exclusive" attract people like flies. Corporate sponsors have piles of free stuff to give away. You just have to tell people about it... and make it part of events. Highlight the best caches a LOT more - Make people compete and have better rewards for the best of the best caches. Weed out the LPCs and low rated ones to bring up quality. Keep people interested - NEW SPINS on things like "Scavenger Hunts", "Mazes", "Night Caches", "Races", "Capture the Flag" and other features that come AND GO may keep people from losing interest. Don't get me started on "things human beings will do for a physical medal, trophy or plaque". Updated trackables - Things like Air Tags or new electronic gizmos need to be introduced more. Something with a time limit that needs to stay moving has to become a thing. And yes "we're already doing that!" ... of course. If so, then I'm just talking about finding new spins or different approaches to keep thing exciting. So there's my TL;DR rant. Hopefully I was able to contribute something positive. Maybe some day when I return, it will be as good or better than how I left it.

Factory Reset doesn't erase user data, it just resets the settings to their factory defaults. You may need find and delete the following files from the main Garmin folder: Geocache_visits.txt Geocache_finds.xml Then go into the GPX folder and verify that there are no old GPX files in there.

I was recently given an Oregon 300 I gave it full delete of all previous userdata and did Firmware update...it was factory Fresh. I created some searches on here in an area of the country I have never bee to before, never foudn Geocaches i this area. So my search of this new area, i sent the Geocaches to the Oregon 300 using " Send to Garmin". The Garmin app pops up and transfers the geocaches to the Oregon and they appear in the geocache section. But weirdly many of them appear under the "Found Geocaches" section of the Oregon 300 even though I have not yet found them. Have not yet found a way to mark tham as Not Found. Only other threads I have seen about this say to either download the Geocaches after deleting from the device or trying to edit the geocache_visits.txt file Neither option works. A whole section of caches still show in the " Found " section even if I have never selected them or done a "GotTo" on them

this is the geocache_visit.txt file off of the Garmin Oregon300 Do i just have to find them manually on here and log them myself ? GC25EMW,2024-09-07T11:27Z,Unattempted,"" GC25EMZ,2024-09-07T11:29Z,Unattempted,"" GCA4G1R,2024-09-07T12:30Z,Found it,"" GCAFF5X,2024-09-07T12:38Z,Found it,"" GCA4B9T,2024-09-07T12:51Z,Found it,""

You don't need the Garmin USB drivers, they are only needed for old devices with a USB connector (which your eTrex H doesn't have). You do need drivers for your Digitus adapter, but since your eTrex can bee seen by your PC they are already installed. Garmin Express is not suited for older devices, it simply doesn't see them. Garmin MapSource or Garmin BaseCamp can send waypoints to your eTrex H.

Hello everyone from my unfortuantely deceased girlfriend, who was my partner in geocashing so many years ago I inherited the Garmin etrex H. So far so good. since I don't wanna put all those waypoints manually in the device I want to connect my device with the PC. So I downloaded the Garmin express software, updated it, updated my garmin device and also downloaded the garmin usb drivers. But the software don't recognize my device, so I downloaded easy gps, but they say I have to download the usb drivers - which I already did. But it still doesn't work. so yeah, I do have windows 11 pro edition. Is there a possibiltiy to get this thing going, or am I doomed to put the waypoint manually in the device?? oh yeah, I also have a special thing called Digitus that connects my device with my PC. I can see the device in my PC. so pls help if you can. thank you

I've been using Garmin GPS equipment professionally since 2001, and from 2007 also to practice Geocaching. Over the years I've used all Oregon models and currently have an Oregon 750 that I highly recommend, whose characteristics can be found at the following link: https://www.gpsrchive.com/Oregon 7x0/index.htm