Handheld GPS Unit For GeoCaching
I'm looking for advice or input about a handheld GPS unit to be used for basic geocaching. I guess I'd like to stay under $150.00 if possible. Any advice? WoodGlue
Forum Discussion
camperpaul wrote:
It seems to me that most of the people responding here have never been Geo-Caching.
To find a cache, you enter the latitude and longitude in degrees minutes and seconds (accurate to 0.01 seconds) and follow your GPS to the cache.
Up to date road maps are useless when the cache is two or three miles from the nearest road (those are the easy ones for beginners).
One of my most memorable finds was in the middle of an open field; when I reached the lat/long coordinates the published altitude of the cache was 35 feet above the elevation (MSL) shown on my eTrex.
You may have guessed it; I had to climb the one tree in the middle of that field.
Hit "Ctrl+A" to see how I found that cache.
You may be right that some people have not ever been Geocaching, but they seam to all about it.
My GPS is made just for Geocaching and works good and my favorite finds are in the mountains, the beach and the desert. I use my netbook laptop to get me to areas that I have not been to, I have the caches downloaded to it from the Geocache.com site, Im a member their.
I have found caches from Oregon to Colorado
