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My kids have been geocaching with an outdoor camp and have enjoyed it. My daughter and I are doing a short back backpack trip this weekend (should be chilly! We still have snow on the mountains, which isn't usual for early November in Shenandoah). I know there are bunches of caches in the section we'll be in, and I'm hoping it will distract my daughter from whining about how miserable she is.
It appears that I can use my 205 to download waypoints, whatever that means. Does anyone have simple instructions for the not-bright?
Use your smartphone instead? Tried with my 305 and it didn't work well. We then found the app for the android phone and that is easy as can be.
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Use your smartphone instead?
+1 on this. Tried with my 405 and it was a little frustrating.
Since then have had success with android & WP apps. I'm sure there's one for iPhone too!!
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I have the Android geocaching app, it looks pretty good but I haven't applied it in a real-life setting yet.
As for concerns about running down your battery....that is going to take quite a bit of GPS operating time. I used my Android phone as a GPS in VERY secluded Montana last year, with a mapping app, and it worked very well. You can't leave the GPS on all day, but you can get quite a few hours in without worrying about depleting a battery that started full.
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I hate to run down my battery tho when I'm backpacking with my daughter in case of emergency...
My wife has a droid razr (I still have an old dumb phone) and it eats battery something fierce. We bought one of these and it is great. At something like 3 times the battery in the phone, we no longer have to worry when we will be able to charge.
I have an old Garmon Etrex I have used for years it is simple and gets the job done . I have a 2 year old smart phone with a crappy GPS that really struggles to get a single but I love the apps for it. One App I have gotten into is Munzee hunting and this could be become bigger than Geocaching. Not too many around my area but the numbers sure are growing. .