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[grain.ben]

I'm thinking of having a go at this treasure geocache hunting hobby  for fun and was wondering which Garmin GPS handheld would be good for doing this, and would have to accept GPX files downloaded from the tinterweb.

Any comment welcomed 

[Darth Loo-knee]

My Daddy is professional Geocacher great fun too..

[chrisgixer]

He is Daz. Your Daddy took me and the gang into the woods at the lakes.

Ask Entweod.

[Darth Loo-knee]

He took us at the Lakes Meet too
Even tried it arund home, but convinced some moron had moved the Treasure Chest 

[Lazydocker]

We do quite a bit... I just use the iPhone app

[Taxi_Driver]

I use the iphone app now, used to use the blackberry app....and i believe if you subscribe to geocaching.com (10 dollars a quarter) theres no need to go onto the site....everything can be done on the apps.

But any sat nav with 'off road' facility will work  Just more fiddly and time consuming.

[TheBoy]

I think both iPhone and Android have usable apps to see if you like it before getting a better, more accurate GPS unit.  Must be worth spending the £5 or £6 for the app first .

I use a gayPhone 5, which in open air, has a GPS accuracy of approx 5m. 3GS has an approx accuracy of about 20m.  Obviously, as soon as you're under tree cover, phones lose accuracy fast.

[Taxi_Driver]

I think both iPhone and Android have usable apps to see if you like it before getting a better, more accurate GPS unit.  Must be worth spending the £5 or £6 for the app first .

I use a gayPhone 5, which in open air, has a GPS accuracy of approx 5m. 3GS has an approx accuracy of about 20m.  Obviously, as soon as you're under tree cover, phones lose accuracy fast.

My BB 9000 had an amazing accuracy on gps and was rated as good as the accuracy on geocaching gps devices, if not better than some of the cheaper models. Something BB got right on the phone 
However, one thing to consider (accuracy is not that important, as you gain experience you will know what to look for.....) if someone has placed a cache with a not very accurate gps device, your super accurate expensive gps device could say your within 1 foot, but in reality your 10/20 feet away.

So if you have a smartphone, buy the app for geocaching, the BB one is about £6, as is the iphone one....ive found plenty of caches with my iphone4/BB 

However as i said in previous post i subscribe to geocaching.com (bout 6 quid/quarter) and i believe the apps (certainly the BB one did) had limitations on what you could do if you didnt subscribe. For example i can just start the app on my phone, click get nearest caches and they download, go find a cache and then send a log of 'found it', without the need to mess about with gpx files or having to go onto geocaching.com to log the find   

One other thing to note is some caches are set to 'premium members only' and unless you subscribe to GC.com you cannot view them.

So if you are just going to see if you like geocaching, spend £6 on an app, spend another £6 on subcribing to GC.com for 3 months (you can cancel anytime) and go for it 

Enjoy 

[albitz]

Wtf is geocaching ? 

[hotel21]

www.geocaching.com

[albitz]

Mmm. Looks like a pastime for folk who have far too much time on their hands.

[MR MISTER]

Wtf is geocaching ? 

Hide and seek to you, Patrick 

[albitz]

Far cough Scouser.

I though of saying that,followed by "get a life",but it seemed a bit rude.
I thought it might have had some connection with metal detecting,as that's also known as treasure hunting. I tried that a couple of times,as swmbos family are very involved in it. I decided to stick some pins in my eyes as it was slightly less tedious.
Now have a couple of very expensive detectors some where in the loft. Iirc one of them cost me a four figure sum about 10 years ago.
Those were the days when I had money to waste.

[chrisgixer]

Mmm. Looks like a pastime for folk who have far too much time on their hands.

It's actually quite clever, some of the puzzles set, can be quite ingenious, and cheaky. Depending on the setter.
I await a post from Entwood.

[MR MISTER]

Ebay them. Someone must want them.
Although.....I believe the serious metal detectorist these days has a very advanced piece of kit. There was astory in thenews the other day about a woman who lost her wedding ring whilst picking spuds forty years ago. She sent one of these semi-pros out with his detector and he only found the bugger.