How to retrieve the "Next Stage" coordinates from an eTrex 30x

[+Gill & Tony]

I use an etrex 30x for caching and I often have to use the "Next Stage" entry to post intermediate and final coordinates for multi's etc.  The last such entry is usually the final coordinates for the cache

 

Is there any way to retrieve the final "Next Stage" coordinates for a cache once I have plugged the eTrex into the computer?

 

Or, to put it another way, how do people update the final coordinates for a multi?

 

Advice would be appreciated

 

Thanks

 

Tony

[+HHL]

https://gsak.net/board/index.php?showtopic=35501&view=findpost&p=272259

[+Gill & Tony]

Hi, Hans

 

That approach doesn't work on the etrex.  

 

I followed your advice trying to get an answer from a garmin specific forum and, there being no response there have come here to try and get an answer which will work on an etrex.

 

 

[+Mineral2]

What HHL posted. There isn't a direct way because the next stage is a temporary geocache waypoint that doesn't get saved to a GPX file.

Personally, when I'm doing a multicache that just posts the coordinates, I'll take a photo in case I need to come back to those coords later. If the multicache is a field puzzle, then I have my notepad with me or I'm working in a virtual note on my phone and my work gets saved either way.

[+Gill & Tony]

Ah! Thanks for providing the crucial bit of information - that those coordinates are not saved.  Obviously I cannot retrieve them automatically.

 

I'll revert to pencil and paper and manual input.

 

Thanks again

 

Tony

 

 

[+JPatton]

https://www.gpsrchive.com/eTrex/eTrex x0x/index.htm has information on how to save the Next Stage coordinates. Select your gps and then Function and Geocaches. About a third of the page down, there are instructions for saving the Next Stage as a waypoint.

[+Atlas Cached]

45 minutes ago, Gill & Tony said:

Ah! Thanks for providing the crucial bit of information - that those coordinates are not saved.  Obviously I cannot retrieve them automatically.

 

I'll revert to pencil and paper and manual input.

 

Thanks again

 

Tony

 

 

 

As already suggested, you can save each next stage waypoint as desired for later review, and you can view a demonstration of exactly how that is done at: GPSrChive > eTrex 30x > Pages > Geocaching > Next Stage > Save as Waypoint.

 

Just remember to edit each 'Next Stage Waypoint' to give it a meaningful name after you save it.

 

 

 

Edited March 2, 2021 by Atlas Cached

[+Gill & Tony]

Thanks to all who have replied.  I had never seen that menu (save as waypoint) and I don't remember seeing it in my manual, even though it may well be there.

 

Sorry to Hans for saying that your suggestion didn't work on the etrex.

 

This will save me a lot of work.

 

Thanks again

 

Tony