+cache-man-do Posted March 18, 2004 Share Posted March 18, 2004 GPSr came first. My wife gave me a Rino for Christmas and I was playing with the features and noticed a Geocache icon and a Geocache found icon. I asked Jeeves about Geocache and he told me all about this sport. ~Mark Quote Link to comment
biopat Posted March 18, 2004 Share Posted March 18, 2004 The GPS came way before Geocaching. As an avid offroader I have owned a GPS, (Eagle Exlorer) for many years now. But I must say that I have now outgrown that particular unit and had to upgrade as soon as I was caught by the Geo bug, (Magellen Sport track Map). Geocaching has also helped me to use much more of this fantastic tool then I ever would have used before. It has increased my skill and confidence with both GPS and general route finding. Quote Link to comment
+Red Clover Posted March 18, 2004 Share Posted March 18, 2004 I heard about Geocaching from a female co-worker.. looked it up and it seemed like a great expansion on my love of nature and hatred of TV .. so I bought the GPS afterwards.. Quote Link to comment
+Latitude 26 Posted March 18, 2004 Share Posted March 18, 2004 The GPS came first, but only by a month or so. I found out about geocaching by accident while browsing the web for GPS stuff. I refuse to look at the new models. I like my current one (Garmin GPSmap 76S). I am a gadget addict - my iPod makes a nice caching companion! "Bassmedic" Quote Link to comment
+JayFredMuggs Posted March 19, 2004 Share Posted March 19, 2004 My Etrex Legend came first, bought as a back up unit for the boat and the car. I stumbled across geocaching while looking for waypoints on the internet. Shortly after discovering geocaching on the internet, our local paper ran an article on it. Quote Link to comment
dsandbro Posted March 19, 2004 Share Posted March 19, 2004 I began using GPS for work in 1989. My personal ones came later when the price dropped. Quote Link to comment
+olbluesguy Posted March 20, 2004 Share Posted March 20, 2004 My old magellen trailblazer reminds me every time i turn it on [1994] I bought it for a hunting trip to the addirondaks and laid out a topo map on the kitchen table and made wypoints before i left. dadgum if I didn't shoot a deer right where I thought he'd be. Been hooked ever since. Quote Link to comment
+MtnMike Posted March 22, 2004 Share Posted March 22, 2004 (edited) First = Mountainbiking and writing/drawing trails on paper with mileage notes Second = GPS course, bought Legend, learned of something called Geocaching Third = Have GPS mounted to handlebar of my bike and I never get lost. Now = Geocaching has become something I do by car, with family and it's fun! MtnMike Edited March 22, 2004 by MtnMike Quote Link to comment
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