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  • 04/19/2010 at 2:27 am #1729976
    Scrappy Scout

      Well the wife and I had our 13 year anniversary this past Monday. My mother in law bought me a Garmin 205w. My question is how do I load in geocaches into the unit and is there away to have it show up while driving and stuff. Also are there any tips or tricks to the unit I should know about. Any help would be nice.
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      Scout

      04/19/2010 at 2:28 am #1927667
      cheezehead

        @Scrappy Scout wrote:

        P.S. the wife got a pair of those shoe shapper thing holy cow those things are almost 100 bucks for a pair of shoes.

        HUH?? 😕

        04/19/2010 at 2:57 am #1927668
        Scrappy Scout

          sorry it was a bad attempt at being funny. I do apologies for that.

          04/19/2010 at 3:25 am #1927669
          Barry Butrymowicz

            Step by step instructions

            http://geocaching.totaltechworld.com/

            04/19/2010 at 11:45 am #1927670
            -cheeto-

              I found that the advanced macro found here is more useful.

              Once you get the feeling for the process and macro sweetlife posted, if you’re interested I’ve found this macro:

              http://sites.google.com/site/jjreds012/download

              to be much better. Why is it better? Because it organizes your caches into types within databases on the unit. So if you have multiple databases in GSAK like “near home” and “near work” or whatever, those are categorized and within that it automatically categorizes into types: traditional, multi, etc.

              It also offers full support for alerting you when a cache is nearby and you can set how close is “nearby” and how loud the tone is for alerting. For certain models, this is the only way to get the alert to work.

              Good luck and enjoy the nuvi 🙂

              04/19/2010 at 7:09 pm #1927671
              Scrappy Scout

                Thank you everyone for the information i loaded up the first one and will try that first if i dont like it i can always load up the secound one and see if i like that one better. but thank you for all the help. as usual as for help and someone has an answer for you thats why i ama proud memeber of the WGA.

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