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Yup, saw it with my own two eyes. Congratulations Marc!
Update your PQs…1001 got published today, so one more for the fun. Actually started looking at these and I’m salivating over 301.
My Leatherman. The most versatile thing I own. I use it several times daily.
Add the male half of the bunnies to the list. Had to restrain myself from trying some of this series when we were in the area for Easter feasting. Look forward to the fun.
Congratulations on the millenium mark! And thanks for all the caches in your area too!
Not to hijack the thread, but I believe we are overdue for another visit with the Echoes also. Have kayak, will travel.
Big ups from the Honeybunnies! Expecting another Cheesy celebration in no time.
Was it only that long? I do remember we got there in mid afternoon, because the sunlight was already changing, and I know we went quick, but wow! We even had time for a stop at Culvers and a few more caches before dark.
But, that’s beside the point. This is a fantastic series and hopefully a future COTM, although I spent my vote early in the month on another worthy perpetual also-ran *cough*Dr. Evermore*cough*.
The quality of these caches was consistently good, the bonus coords were harder than the caches themselves, and each cache following a theme for the WPs always made you look at things differently. Nice all the way around.
The central Wisconsin contingent speaks…
1747 in my hundred mile radius, found included714 filtering out finds
and a paltry 7 left within 50 miles.
So watch for Team Honeybunnies, coming soon to a cache near you !
Trip and Waypoint is packaged with the unit, and City Navigator with the street maps and turn-by-turn is 120.00(I think) extra. Not sure on backwards compatibility. Yeah, kinda’ hidden costs, as my 500.00 unit was 700.00 by the time I added software, a power adapter and AA charger.
The workaround for GSAK is pretty easy. You export the waypoints to the Mapsource Trip and Waypoint Manager(comes with the unit) and then download it from there to the GPSr. Adds one step with very little hassle. I was a bit apprehensive too, but GSAK has a nice thread on their internal forum that explained it all.
I’ve been using my new 60 CSx for about 3 weeks now. The first caveat is that I have not owned a previous model in this series, and the second is that I have not played with many other cachers’ receivers.
That said, I have used the word “sexy”, frequently in earshot of others when describing it. Uncle_Fun has posted some logs with glowing recommendations as well.
I’ll describe what I’m seeing in the field and you can take it for what you will. In the car moving, first satellite acquire of the day, seems only a bit faster. I can’t quite quantify it. But after turning it off, every subsequent acquisition is sub 2-3 seconds. I’ve regularly had it on indoors and maintained a lock under 25 feet accuracy. My average seems to be 17-21 feet outdoors. Better, but not earth-shattering. Haven’t had it under heavy foliage yet(like just about everyone else in Wisconsin). I did maintain lock under heavy pines while others were losing, but haven’t seen many caches with dense pines in the last few weeks either.
Memory with the supplied chip holds enough to cover all of Wisconsin, all of Chicagoland and room for a bit more. Upload with USB (my old unit had serial) is under 3 seconds for the 500 or so waypoints I load weekly.
As for turn-by-turn, if I miss a turn, recalculation is almost instantaneous. Scrolling is faster from what I’ve been told.
My only complaint has been the tendency to walk past the cache and then come back. I’ve always heard other people talk about this, but didn’t experience it much with our first barebones unit (Garmin Geko 301).
I’d be interested to hear from people who HAVE had both.
I’ve pulled down somewhere in the area of 150 caches since it arrived, and my overall impression is extremely favorable.
More ups from the Bunnies!
More ups from the Honeybunnies!
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