Putting Bearing And Distance Into Gps??

[monroe gang]

I recently visited a cache that to get to the second half it wanted me to: stand on the south side of the tree put the following in my gps bearing 260* and distance 515 ft.

I still can not figure out how to do this I own a Garmin etrex legend

[+AtoZ]

It is called projecting a waypoint. The first problem is going to be your gps probable only lets you put in the distnace as decmiles of a mile. So convert 515 feet to a mile. What I would suggest is uing a compas to get the bearing and then just pacing it off, or us a really long string LOL. But look for how to project a waypoint on you GPS. What GPS do you have always state that.

cheers

[+Poindexter]

He said he has a Garmin Legend which does do waypoint projection. The manual explains how to do this. 515 feet is .097538 miles.

[+NightPilot]

Or 172 yards, rounded to the nearest yard.

[+John & Hazel]

In the Main Menu>Distance/Bearing> change from statute to yards =172 or metres=157

[+Robespierre]

I think one simple way: "mark" that spot, hit "goto" and walk away in the proper compass direction until it says 515'.

[+CharlieP]

With my Garmin GPS76, either the waypoint projection feature or the Measure Distance function on the map page can be used for bearing and distance problems. When I need better than .01 mile precision, I set the Units to metric and use the measure distance function, which measures distances less than 1000 meters in 0.1 meters. I use a conversion program on my PDA to do the necessary math.