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Congratulations on 1000 finds.

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Hitma4’s Military Series
GC26E2A Navy Seal
GC26E70 Army Airborne
GC26E4C Marine Expeditionary Force
GC26ERC Air Force Pilot

Great Series of caches with a special reward at the end. 😀

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The Geomate Jr is a good tool to use for some basic caching.

It has limitations, because it only shows caches of difficuty 4 or less, and the screen is monochrome without a backlight. It also only gives you a direction an bearing, so you have to navigate to GZ by watching the navigation arrow and distance for the driver, and tell them where to turn. After finding the cache, you then read the GC number, to write it down so you can log the proper cache later.

We used it on a trip to the east coast and wherever we stopped, we turned it on to see if there were any closeby caches. We grabbed over 30 caches that way on the trip.

It has the same 3-meter accuracy rating as more expensive units.

The update kit allows you to update the caches stored in memory to the latest active cache database. Right now, there is no limitation to how many times you can update the unit.

We usually bring it along on our caching runs, but only use it if we get out of our pocket query range.

Regards,
Rich

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I use a geomate Jr as a secondary GPSR. When we went on a road trip to the east coast and back, we used it to find caches wherever we stopped for a rest. With the limitations noted above, the unit is cheap and accurate.

You can only get the GC number, not the cache name. It points out distance and bearing to the next cache. It gives you the cache size and difficulty/terrain number.

So if you don’t know where you will stop, and don’t have the time or inclination to load in caches along a route, then this works fine. We found about half of the 57 caches found on our trip using the geomate Jr.

My primary unit is an Oregon 400T.

Rich

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