Report your GPSr Christmas Presents here...

[+Centaur]

What did you FIND or HIDE under the Christmas tree?

 

If you gave or received a GPSr for Christmas, please note its make and model here.

 

I'm giving Patch (my better half) a Garmin GPSmap 76S.

(She dosent need auto-routung, she knows how to get from here to there. Me, I need my V because I get lost crossing the street. )

 

[shrekTBA]

I got my Vista really early, but was notified that was my gift, I love it.

 

It's not a sport unless there is something dead in the back of the truck when you get home.

[+DirtRunner]

Magellan Meridian with 128Mb ram and Canada Map CD...nyuk...nyuk...nyuk...

 

And there's still a ton-o'-crap under the tree...

 

DirtRunner.

 

Your not first...But you could be next.

[+Wander Lost]

Lost One is getting a basic yellow Etrex. At 5 years old he doesn't need anything more. (That's him in my avatar)

 

This will make us a 3 GPSr family. Lil' Lost One will just have to wait until he can talk before we buy him one.

 

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people??

 

[+Big Tom]

I am giving my bro-in-law and nephew a e-trex and a ammo box that is all set up and ready to place.

Big Tom

[+yumitori]

I don't know yet what's under the tree, but we held a holiday event with a gift game involving items worthy of placing in caches -

 

MOOG's December Party

 

Ron/yumitori

[+Mr. 0]

I'm giving my brother a Magellan Meridian tomorrow, and hiding a few other little things for him in an ammo box near his house. I already stored the coordinates in the GPSr

[+niskibum]

My sister and I are giving my dad a rino 120 fully loaded with the area topos and all the caches within 100 miles. He's got no excuse for not geocaching now!

[Eeyore and Shadow]

Shadow is getting a set of trekking poles and some new flashlights. My birthday was a month ago, that was where we splurged on the caching gear. I got a SporTrak map with mapsend topo, a .30 cal ammo can, several decon cans, hand warmers and various other small caching related items.

 

Eeyore

 

It took a GPS to get me away from technology.

[+geospotter]

When I told my wife that I bought a Meridian she said "Merry Christmas".

[+Goodguys]

There's a Rino 110 in the missus' Christmas stocking. (I'm hoping she reciprocates with a 120 in the New Year).

[iweb]

Magellan Meridian Platinum with a 64 meg chip and my friend got a Magellan Sports Trak Pro. We went out today and found our first cache! Both are hooked.

[+carleenp]

I gave both my boyfriend and his 12 year old son a yellow etrex.

 

[+TeamJiffy]

We gave my dad and my sister Vistas, as they loved going Geocaching with us in the fall.

 

It turns out that the closest cache to my parent's house in Minnesota happens to be within 50 yards of the back yard fence line!

[+oregone]

I got a CD burner, so pdx-area cachers can expect more annoying caches like this one.

 

all rights reserved, all wrongs reversed

[targetdrone]

I placed a few envelopes on the tree containing coordinates to packages hidden in the back yard. They each contained lights for night caching for the Bratpack. I already gave LS7673 his a few nights ago while hunting a cache at night. I did get a large tin of popcorn. I better start eating it now if I want to use it for a cache.

 

"I can't find the longitude for the North Pole"

[+ict X ckr]

Got a CamelBack M.U.L.E.

[+The Cheeseheads]

No Geocaching-related gifts, but I did get a new Packer sweatshirt and the complete 14-disc Monty Python DVD set! Yay!

 

Although I did treat myself to a copy of ExpertGPS with the $10 off coupon. What a cool app!

 

And I'm saving up all the film containers for micros...

 

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Wisconsin Geocaching Association

[+Pepper]

it's only 6:47 AM out here on the west coast. Will report back hopefuly with happy caching gifts.

 

Merry Christmas to ALL my fellow caches out in Christmas Cache Land.

 

Pepper

 

Horizontals where it's at!

[+chillas]

Santa brought me a bright, shiny, new SporTrak Pro and Map Send Topo. My future brother-in-law and I are going out to cache shortly ... heheheheh

 

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Memory is a prism through which yesterday's light is passed.

[+MercRocks]

Merry Christmas All ..Santa was very generous this year....He brought me a 12v power cable and handle bar mount for my mag 315...New Suunto compass...and a whole lot of cache goodies...Ye ha and best wishes....

 

"Do a cache, haul out some trash, one piece at time, we'll get the world clean, in no time"....

[+hoovman]

Four emergency blankets, 2 whistles, a flashlight, a compass, and a PC cable for my yellow eTrex. Now I have to search the forums for info on software I can use.

 

[Boron]

New underwear and some incense..are they trying to tell something?

 

Diplomancy is the art of saying 'Nice Doggie'...til you can find a rock.

[+bigredmed]

HRM Queen Mikki I gave me a Panasonic Digibino digital camera/bino combination. Expect to be using this heavily while caching. Sometimes its good to be the Royal Geocacher...

 

By appointment to the Court of HRM Queen Mikki I.

[+Pepper]

The husband got the me the wife Map Send Topo, cig cable for the car, a cradle for my Megallen Gold and a cachin' T-Shirt.

 

Yup, Yup, Yup after lunch I am gonna do me a Christmas Day Cache.

 

Merry Christmas to all!

 

Pepper

 

Horizontals where it's at!

[+yumitori]

A big box of mini bottles of Tabasco (my signature item) and a Princeton Tec Aurora headlamp, with a Pulsar for backup.

 

Ron/yumitori

[+Rusty O Junk]

I got a car mount and cables for my meridian, an 18 speed mountain bike (at 54 I just got my first new bike), a fold up umbrella to cover the cache while logging in during a rain and an electric coffee cup that plugs into the cigarette lighter plug (most important during winter caching).

[bteague2]

i got a timex watch with a digital compass built into it pic and info

 

it seems pretty acurate when compared to my hiking compass

 

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

[+yorelken]

I got one of those vests with a multiude of pockets. My wife/social director said "Let's see you fill THAT with geocaching gadgets." I consider that a challenge.

[+Markwell]

Yellow Geo-vest.

 

Markwell

Chicago Geocaching

[codetalker]

Garmin eMap

MetroGuide USA

8 MB Data Card

Car Mount

Beanbag Mount (for wife's car)

 

Time to party!

[+CCrew]

A nice hiking stick, and a sweet Swiss Army Knife

 

Roger

 

Sometimes a majority only means that all the fools are on the same side

[+leatherman]

I got a pair of Motorola T6400 GMRS radios. I wrote a small review.

 

If you do not extend your expectations unto others, you will not be disappointed by the stupid things they do.

Mokita!

[+MysteryLady]

I got my husband a Garmin Street Finder III Deluxe. He loved it!! I also got a yellow etrex for my 10 year old granddaughter, SleuthGirl, and my 13 year old grandson, GottaBeNike. They both were thrilled. Had a great day - too much snow, though. We can go caching on Friday!!!

[+Smitherington]

My adult daughter bought me some goodies to put in geocaches when I go hunting. I love it!

[rm17]

Got my first GPS reciever ever. A Magellan 315. Been using it already quite a bit today. Works real well, pretty darn accurate so far, locks on very quickly and have had no problems at all so far. I also am getting those strong engineering screen covers for christmas but they didn't arrive in time to get under the tree today. Same with a carrying case, either the ultimate one or a camo one off of basspro-shops.com. Not sure, person just said it was either of those but it still hasn't arrived.

[+evergreenhiker!]

I gave my father an Etrex Legend. He's really impressed with it. His old gps are one of those old Magellan 2000 gps of ten years ago or whatever. Huge step up!

[GeoNutz]

My Geocaching Items:

• Garmin Legend GPSr

Garmin Protective Case

12v Power Cable

Brunton Compass

Lightweight Jacket

 

I have already picked/downloaded/ready to find a few local caches and benchmarks. I can't wait until this weekend.

 

quote:

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A Hunting We will Go!

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Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

 

[This message was edited by GeoNutz on December 25, 2002 at 10:08 PM.]

[UncleCoreo]

Santa was good to me. He gave me a Magellan Sportrak Pro bundle pack from Costco!

[+ron50eli]

I got a nice sweatshirt with the legal logo airbrushed on it with my users name. Wore it to Christmas dinner with my green pants, red toe socks & my pixie socks. Happy Holiday's to all. Even the Scrooges'.

rocker51

[+Genius Loci]

New set of long underware! (now I can take the old set off to wash it)

[+BWidget]

For myself

I bought a Magellan Meridian

[+bitbrain]

ChinaJack (my father-in-law) gave me an auto mount for my SporTrak Map & got himself a SporTrak Pro.

 

- If the cat had kittens in the oven, we wouldn't call 'em biscuits. -

[GeoBard]

a haiku of christmas geocaching gifts:

 

a leatherman tool

sportrack gps unit

and flannel-lined jeans

 

okay, so it's not a good haiku. still, i'm ready to

take on the world!

 

"What country, friends, is this?" (Twelfth Night I.2)

[HackAttack]

Ma Bell and I got Chameleon a meridian gps. Turns out it's way better than her 330 map, so I think she is confiscating his Christmas present. Bad Mommy...

 

The mother in law bought me some more of my signature pins. If anyone is interested in a real cheap source to buy pins and patches go here:

 

http://www.epilogsys.com/littleawards/

 

Pins and patches are $1.50 each. No set up fee. No minimum order. And real cheap shipping.

 

My Avatar is the pin she did up for me.

 

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"Boredom is the state of one's mind"

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[+Binrat]

GeoGranny got me a St. John's first aid kit that attaches to your belt. After slicing myself earlier this year on Binthair's "Damit" cache http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=18230 , it will come in handy. St. John's has a great site for kits and stuff, check it out.

 

https://nt2.magma.ca/sja/english_catalog/category_display.cfm?Category_ID=2

 

Binrat

P.S. I still have scars from doing "Damit"

 

"Blood is thicker than water.......Unless the water is frozen!"

[+st_richardson]

If anyone in the Atlanta, GA area get a Rino, email me! I'm trying to get enough people to some of the cool Rino games.

[Rubbertoe]

I got one of those fancy color-screened digital phones with the GPS ability when using 911. I read a couple other posts in the forums about it - and from what I gathered, it isn't true GPS... but some sort of GPS-ish locating system using the communications towers/satellites, rather than the GPS system.

 

Hope someone comes out with a program to allow usage as a simple location indicator. I don't need tracks, maps, and all that crap - but it'd be awesome if it would give lat/lon location if you wanna hide a cache on a spur of the moment and don't have your 'good' gps with ya.

 

The Toe Pages

[ajoygardner]

I bought my husband a Garmin etrex Legend

[+MedicP1]

Bought the family a pair of FRS units, for our next caching trek. We won't use them till then...Ya right the little ones have already scanned the channels and started chatting with anyone within range.

 

GPSr's...A step in the right direction!