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Getting dismissed at noon:)
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Ahhh! The spinal tap wore off 🙁
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Have a great view from my hospital bed. I can see Lambeau Field from here. Feeling good. Everything went well. Thanks for sharing your adventure koolma. I’m living vicariously now. Keep them coming 🙂
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I just bought a Garmin gpsmap 64…hasn’t even arrived yet. But it’s an upgrade to the gpsmap 62s which was my previous unit…until it finally died a couple of weeks ago. I bought a Garmin etrex Touch 20 at Cabela’s. I loved its ease of use but it didn’t get very good satellite reception in wooded areas…and that’s huge when geocaching! I returned it after testing it for a couple of weeks (great return policy at Cabela’s). The 64s has a great external antenna and that was my determining factor in purchasing it. Like the 62s, I can load pq’s on it from my computer, it records field notes for easy logging, and can send/receive caches remotely to/from another enabled unit like the Oregons. I ordered the new one from Garmin…they offer a 20% discount when sending in your old unit.
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Always nice to welcome someone back to the game 🙂 Meanwhile I’m taking a hiatus…hip #2 to be replaced on Tuesday morning.
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My friends at the Oconto Barn Quilt event did say they noticed a glow about you:) Hope everything is going well.
Would have come to your event, but we had planned on the road rally several months ago.
Your name was in the paper local paper today as having won a prize at the Barn Quilt Rally…didn’t say what you won but, after they announced what some of the prizes were for, I suspected it was for “getting lost the most”:)
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My friends at the Oconto Barn Quilt event did say they noticed a glow about you:)
Hope everything is going well.Oconto...the birthplace of western civilization:)
Had the bedroom window cracked open last night…was awakened by the sound of pteradactyls in the marsh this morning. That’s what my wife calls the cranes. There’s some huge flocks forming now. And it sounded like the duck hunters were finding success too…I may need a nap later today.
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You’ll get used to it. The biggest difference of course is you’re switching from a push button model to a touchscreen. Some find it easier to use a touchscreen and it’s certainly faster to enter the data, but longevity can sometimes be an issue with the touchscreen models. The 25 has the capability of receiving both the 26 U.S. satellites as well as the 24 Russian GLONASS satellites for a total of 50, but the 62s has a better antenna since it has that “thumb” bumpout, but they’ll be close in performance.
You’ll find that unlike the push button 62s, you’ll have to take your gloves off to push the touchscreen, which can be inconvenient in winter. But those who have touchscreens (like on a smartphone) usually wouldn’t have it any other way. It has a small but very sunlight-readable screen, which is nice.
We have had several touchscreen GPS units over the past six years, all from Garmin, and eventually had to replace each one when they partially or completely stopped working. Still liked them though. As far as push button models, our 62s lasted for about 7,400 caches when the power button finally wore off, but it still worked! We recently got a GPSMAP64s to replace the 62s. We also have an Oregon450 & 650, which are both touchscreen models. We like the eTrex series and they’re fairly fast and accurate, and a good value, but prefer the eTrex touch35 over the eTrex touch25 because you can send wirelessly back and forth cache and waypoint info to other Garmin units with the 35, but not with the 25. That’s a dealbreaker for us because we constantly use that feature when caching as a couple or with others.
So the eTrex25 gets a thumbs up from me if you don’t care about sharing data wirelessly to other units. I’d recommend deleting the preloaded 250,000 (yep, 250k) geocaches – they’d be outdated after the very first week. Enjoy your eTrex!
I like it…I like it a lot! Everything you said about it is true. But I see what you mean about the lack of a good external antenna. I’ll miss the speed of the 25 but I think I’m going to swap it out for the 64.
P.S. I see we must have passed each other on 41 today…while you were headed to Oconto, we were heading to the Mountain Bay Trail caches starting in Green Bay. Congrats on the FTF’s.Oconto...the birthplace of western civilization:)
My wife and her girl friend went up to Copper Harbor and the Keewenaw for a couple of days looking for color and to go hiking…I’m guessing they’re a little soggy too.
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Thanks:) I called Garmin tech support today to see if I could do a factory reset on the 62s…it worked once before but not this time. I found out that if I ordered a new Garmin for them I could get a 20% discount by sending in my dead model. So I may return my new one to Cabela’s…after testing it out on the Mountain Bay Trail tomorrow…and go that route. And if I don’t like the touch screen, the 64 would be my next choice.
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The DNR has been trying to rid itself of some of the small seldom visited state parks for years but nearby communities don’t want to give up the status for tourism reasons. Oconto has been concerned with Copper Culture State Park…the DNR would like to turn it over. They have major budget issues maintaining their state parks.
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GC1Z7GQ is a good one with lots of favorite points…GCXB1A is a great hike to a very scenic location…GC37GKP has a great history…and I’d recommend the gadget cache GC2ZM2K but the container appears to have gone missing. GC4HT2G is at a unique place. GC5XRAW and GC2MD1A are both great TB hotels. Hope you enjoy your time there…it’s a beautiful area. My wife and I have been spending a week at Star Lake every summer for our anniversary the last few years 🙂
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Congratulations to Hearty Soles and Big Jim 60 for having their milestones published in FTF Magazine 🙂
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Congratulations, Chris, on all those 🙂 ‘s.
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