What Did You Do While Waiting For Your Gps

March 28, 2005

I'm waiting and losing my mind waiting for it to get here. The research part helps, but I need to find something that will hold me over till then. Any sugestions?

March 28, 2005

I downloaded the manual off the internet, so when it came, I was ready to use every feature!

Have fun with it. They're the new "Man's Best Friend."

24.7k · March 28, 2005

I went geocaching without the GPS and got skunked.

6.5k · March 29, 2005

figured out which cache to seek first and when, read the forums, went fishing (I used to do a lot of fishing, now not so much).

1.3k · March 29, 2005

Still waiting to be able to have the $$$ to buy one! :rolleyes:

So, I go with the bro-in-law or borrow his when he's not using it.

Lately, I use it more than he does!!

D-man <_<

March 29, 2005

I had one that kept resetting itself and losing memory, I emailed the company they said return it. It was a sad day indeed. Now I wait for my new one with a dozen caches planned and no GPS.

Thanks for letting me ramble :rolleyes:

March 29, 2005

I went geocaching without the GPS and got skunked.

been there done that. :rolleyes:

March 29, 2005

I bought mine from an exhibit at the Toronto Sportsman Show and was playing with,, umm err sorry, "learning its functions",, it the very same day :rolleyes:

Sometimes the REAL physical world blows away online/virtual shopping

3k · March 29, 2005

For me, the waiting was easy. I had two other GPSrs which had been loaned to me. Once I bought my own, I gave the other two back to their owners.

I highly recommend doing it this way. :rolleyes:

March 29, 2005

checked the tracking over and over to see if it had moved..LOL....

March 29, 2005

I went geocaching without the GPS and got skunked.

been there done that.

I've been skunked using a GPS :rolleyes:

March 29, 2005

Still waiting to be able to have the $$$ to buy one!

So, I go with the bro-in-law or borrow his when he's not using it.

Lately, I use it more than he does!!

D-man

I don't have $$ for a gps either but I found out a local Outdoors store in my area that has layaway. I put an etrex legend on layaway a couple of weeks ago.

I've been using my father-in-laws gps every now and then since last year. I too use it more than he does.

1.7k · March 29, 2005

What Did You Do While Waiting For Your Gps, just curious

I went caching with a borrowed GPSr until I decided I was hooked and ordered my own.

March 29, 2005

My first three finds were while I was waiting (or not waiting) for my GPSr to arrive. I downloaded a copy of UsaPhotoMaps, printed satellite photos of the area with the cache coords clearly marked, read the description and the logs, took the clue (just in case) and bagged 'em.

I still take the sat pix with me. Usually don't have to use the GPSr until the last minute (pun intended). :laughing:

March 29, 2005

I went to Walmart early saturday am to buy a battery charger and some NiMH batteries. My new Magellan Gold arrived saturday afternoon....Semper paratus.....(Always prepared).....US Coast Guard motto.........

By the way...I LOVE MY NEW Magellan Gold.....

March 29, 2005

I went geocaching without the GPS and got skunked.

been there done that.

I've been skunked using a GPS

I guess that'll come for me too. Good luck.

March 29, 2005

My first three finds were while I was waiting (or not waiting) for my GPSr to arrive. I downloaded a copy of UsaPhotoMaps, printed satellite photos of the area with the cache coords clearly marked, read the description and the logs, took the clue (just in case) and bagged 'em.

I still take the sat pix with me. Usually don't have to use the GPSr until the last minute (pun intended).

Thanks for the link. ///Thumbs up///

March 29, 2005

I went to Walmart early saturday am to buy a battery charger and some NiMH batteries. My new Magellan Gold arrived saturday afternoon....Semper paratus.....(Always prepared).....US Coast Guard motto.........

By the way...I LOVE MY NEW Magellan Gold.....

I was on WHEC-33 USCGC Duane ( a reef off the coast of Florida now). 1980-1982

March 29, 2005

Since it is while waiting for a GPS, I cried and whined to my financial counselor, (wife) until she said I could go get it. Before geocaching I rode motorcycles on the weekends and gimped around alot during the week. :laughing:

March 29, 2005

lefty2448.....I was never in the service of my country. I am proud to say that my daughter is currently in the US Coast Guard, stationed in the Texas Gulf area. She is a graduated of the Coast Guard Academy in Connecticut. When we go to visit her, I will have to bring along my Magellen just for fun...LOL

March 29, 2005

I downloaded the manual off the internet, so when it came, I was ready to use every feature!

Have fun with it. They're the new "Man's Best Friend."

I also downloaded the manual off the internet. I new how to use it befor it came.

Roger

March 29, 2005

I went today with compass and map to look for my first cache. Fount it! I hope my GPS is going to be delivered soon, bought an eTrex Legend on eBay...

March 29, 2005

lefty2448.....I was never in the service of my country. I am proud to say that my daughter is currently in the US Coast Guard, stationed in the Texas Gulf area. She is a graduated of the Coast Guard Academy in Connecticut. When we go to visit her, I will have to bring along my Magellen just for fun...LOL

I hand salute to your daughter. I thanks her for serving. I'm sure you are very proud.

3.3k · March 29, 2005

I have found at least 15 caches san GPS. I picked 1/1 caches that were located near streets, and had hints like magnetic. I would go to the area, look for things made of metal, and hunt for caches. I got stumped a few times. I also checked cache log galleries, to point me in the right area.

March 29, 2005

While waiting for my GPS, I got onto Geocaching.com and found local caches in my area THAT CONTAINED DETAIELD CLUES!

Using those clues, I then found abouth 5 geocaches!

have fun and visit WWW.NWTREASUREHUNTER.COM

ENJOY HE HUNT!

March 29, 2005

While waiting for my GPS, I got onto Geocaching.com and found local caches in my area THAT CONTAINED DETAIELD CLUES!

Using those clues, I then found abouth 5 geocaches!

have fun and visit WWW.NWTREASUREHUNTER.COM

ENJOY HE HUNT!

You cheater.

I did the same thing, but never found the one I looked for... Found it as soon as I got my GPS.

I just downloaded a bunch of LOC files, and some software to try out. EasyGPS, GSAK, Screenied/printed some TopoServer maps. I only had to wait a few days for shipping tho.

March 30, 2005

Goto the local Reatail store and pester the snot out of the clerk,

ask him questions not even relevant to geocaching or GPSr's

March 30, 2005

I have found 5 caches sans GPS so far. I've also been stumped on 4 other ones.

And, by my estimation, only about 2 more weeks or so till I get my GPS :laughing:

Unfortunatly, at thise rate I will run out of caches that I can reach by the time my GPS get here... I lack a vehicle so I do all my hunting on foot right now. That means that there's a fairly small area that I am confined to. But as the weather gets better maybe I can make longer expeditions on the weekends.

2.6k · March 30, 2005

Actually I was using a gpsr before geocaching was born. :laughing: :huh:

March 30, 2005

Actually it wasn't a problem. Our first dozen+ caches were found without a GPS.

5.3k · March 30, 2005

I used another one, I had access to several before I ever bought one.

March 31, 2005

I'm waiting and losing my mind waiting for it to get here. The research part helps, but I need to find something that will hold me over till then. Any sugestions?

Go benchmark hunting. No GPS required for those, as they have detailed descriptions about their supposed location.

After you get your GPS, go cache crazy.

March 31, 2005

I've had a GPS for quite a few years now, brought it with me hiking and backpacking, etc..

But I never knew about geocaching until a few weeks ago. I love it.

2k · March 31, 2005

I went geocaching with Renegade Knight after he got his.

March 31, 2005

Try the poor man's geo-caching. Go letterboxing. It's the same thing w/out the unit. It's at www.letterboxing.org .

Zephyr

March 31, 2005

Good news, the online store got my payment cleared up and will prolly ship 2day. Monday is my guess that it'll be here. WOOT

2.6k · March 31, 2005

I hung around the forums and tried to figure out how geocaching works. I still was a bit of a dink on my first day out

38.2k · March 31, 2005

Try the poor man's geo-caching. Go letterboxing. It's the same thing w/out the unit. It's at www.letterboxing.org .

Zephyr

Letterboxers call geocaching the 'stupid person's letterboxing".

March 31, 2005

Tigergps says it should be here this A.M. via DHL, I'm sitting at my desk at work and right now my left foot is bouncing and my right eye is twitching..how many vacations days do I have left...Hmmmmmm!

April 2, 2005

I didn't order mine by mail because I hate to wait...I just took the best internet price I found to my local west marine and bought it there....same great price no wait and no shipping fees

April 3, 2005

I have been geocaching for awhile now without a gps. I started because I find the challeng of the hunt fun. I only recently started trading items. I started doing all the level 1 in our area and have since moved up to higher levels. Yesterday I found my 133rd cache. I have gone on only three geocaching trips (a day to do just geocaching). I consider myself a casual cacher...looking for caches only when I'm in the area. My wife would disagree.

I keep saying that I am going to get a gps as soon as I earn the extra money to do so. Well, it hasn't happened yet.

Yes I have been skunked more often than not. It sometimes take me two or three trips to find some caches. When I get my gps, the first thing I'm going to do is go straight through the list to every cache I couldn't find and log it the first day!

Just felt like adding my two cents worth. Don't sit around waiting for your gps to arrive (which it probably has already!). Go out and get started!

:rolleyes:

April 3, 2005

133? Wow. That's alot of GPSless caches. And I thought my 6 was alot.

My GPS should arrive at home on the 8th and then make it up to me at my dorm is slightly less than a week after that. The wait is killing me!

But with any luck I should have another 4 caches done by today...

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