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I had an old Blue Etrex, I have a 60CSx and last year my wife upgraded me to the 62st. The 62st kicks butt!! I have never have a problem getting a signal lock and it locks on super fast. It is a a bit difference set up than the 60CSx, but easy to learn once you get familiar with it. I do believe that the external antenna helps a lot too. I like that it has buttons and that it’s still easy to use while wearing gloves.
I bet I have over 75 different trails mapped on it while the CSx only let you store 10 or so. You can also store I think 10,000 waypoints on it and pretty sure you can load the whole City Navigator North America disk on it and still have room. And it is also paperless and can use it for Chip caches but does not do WhereIgo’s, but neither did the CSx.

Now Sandlanders recently got a the new Etrex 20…I think. It also does paperless. I know she has ad some issues with it, but I think it was with the setup or did not do the recent upgrade. I have never used a Colorado or Oregon and have never used anything other than a Garmin. Some love their Megellens too.

If someone were to ask me what I would recommend, it would have to be 62st. For me and where I live, the Topo maps are very handy. It is a tad pricey thou. I do think that the new Etrexs are good and are not as expensive.

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Up North, we call this ” Doing the Woody” ^^^ That is Woody1

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Caches at Minnesota DOT waysides are allowed as long as they are registered with the DOT.

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But Jim, he gave up using those kind of light bulbs awhile ago…..

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Ok, but I maybe wrong, I would think that most people do it the old fashion way. But again, I very well could be in the minority by doing that way.

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@Lacknothing wrote:

I think a litttle more clarification is in order. I don’t know about the rest of you, but when I log my find on my GPSr and upload it to http://www.geocaching.com, the correct date is automatically posted in my field notes. So the reality is that even if I do not get to logging those finds online for awhile, they are still going to have the correct date because the date is automatically posted. The only way the date will change is if I physically change it.

No, that’s not quite right. When you go to make the 1st log, it will show the date that it currently is. If you go back and log caches from the day before, a week ago or a month ago, it will stay that date till you change it back. If doing multiple cache logs.

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***DERAIL ALERT**** *** DERAIL ALERT*****
Hippie, you don’t have to worry about getting eat’in my no cat cuz your too damn skinny!

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Sooner than you think. WI DOT does not allow geocaching on it property.
It is me belief that these type of caches should ever get approved.
Nothing will happen till some one gets severely hurt or killed along a road way. People who put these kind of caches out should ask themselves,”WOuld I want my child attempting to find this cache?”

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@gotta run wrote:

@CodeJunkie wrote:

Sorry for beating the dead horse, but ran into a scenario today that gives all cachers and geocaching a bad impression to the public.

New caches published and the page clearly states they aren’t available after dark. The parking area also has a sign (where one of the caches is located) that clearly states the area is closed at dark. The one at the sign right at the parking area and is logged last night as a FTF and I blow it off as “OK” because it’s near the road. No other logs on the rest, so I give the benefit of doubt that they did the right thing. I did two others on the way to work this morning and noticed lots of footprints near both GZ’s. Sure enough the same cacher(s) signed these 2 logs which meant they were trespassing last night in a nature area. The online logs also clearly state the time and it’s obviously well past “dark”.

Maybe that falls into the “don’t tell me how to play the game” category… 😛

23+ years of working Grocery/Convenience Store Biz, I have learned 3 things. People can’t see, people can’t read, people only read what they want to read.
Perfect example. Tuesday, with strong wind, out front door kept getting blown open and newspapers and such kept getting blown off the racks.
We had to lock the that doors and put up TWO signs asking people to use the other entrance. How may people do you think ran into the door and continued to push one the door?

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And remember that they are volunteers and do have lives other than geocaching.

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Aren’t all caches park & grabs, unless you have walked from your house to get the. Your park, walk a mile or so and then you grab it. No?
Hmmmmmmm…….that gives me an idea……. 😈

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@mongo1965 wrote:

With the price of gas I’m boycotting everything over 50 miles away unless I going by them for another reason.

Mongo, I’m going to place a big, new shinny ammo can 51.1 miles from your house 😈 😛 8) 😉

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http://coord.info/GCC0CE-I went on vacation, and forgot my….

This was my 1st cache find and adopted a few years back. Being that is a little bit out of town, it doesn’t get found all that much. It’s the original as far as I know.
I found with a an blue Etrex that I bought with our wedding money. Almost got divorced over it. Was manning the store we use to own one day and saw this “geocaching” thingy on it. Punched the addy in to the computer, punched in the zip. Whooooo! There some in Hayward?!?!?!? Looked at the map. Well I know where it’s at! That night I went and looked for it and found it right where it should have been. As I looked back at the logs, I see it was Team Smith Lake’s 1st cache too. It is because of their two cache puzzle series that I got hooked in this game.

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@Northwoods Tom wrote:

@vtwinspin wrote:

This is whats going to kill the game. when a cacher creates a Boycott club my caches first then some other cachers. this really wants me to just arcive all my caches and stop hidding caches , Putting No VTS caches on a geocaching page what is your take this way to play this game ? pretty childlish is you ask me

I didn’t see any mention of the boycott you mentioned but I didn’t look real careful. Gives me a reason to head to western Wisconsin… To do “Your” caches!

Look at his profile page and the pic he uses non his logs.

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Don’t worry about it. I don’t know the story behind the boycott, but no one forces anyone to go find a cache. If he becomes a problem, contact the Frog.

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