What's your favorite way to find 'em?

[+Bubbles&Bonkers]

I've been using pretty much the same technology since 2009. What's the easiest way to have the info to cache these days??

 

Right now I look up a place I want to go on the site.

Download the caches to my Garmin eTrex (I think it is).

Write down on paper the GC# and a little info and/or use my iPhone for all the pertinent info.

 

Still seems like some work before ever getting out the door.

 

Help an old timer out...

[+BAMBOOZLE]

I use a 'paperless' GPS ... just download pocket queries from here and all the info you need is on your GPS.

 

+1....you can't beat the new paperless GPS units. Everything is on your unit, no stack of papers or PDA.

[+Bubbles&Bonkers]

I use a 'paperless' GPS ... just download pocket queries from here and all the info you need is on your GPS.

 

+1....you can't beat the new paperless GPS units. Everything is on your unit, no stack of papers or PDA.

 

Ah, okay. They had those several years ago. Maybe they've come down in price for me! THANKS!!

[+MountainWoods]

In 2012 I paid less for my eTrex 20 with paperless caching than I did a few years earlier (I think 2006) for the old eTrex Legend that did not know anything about caches. My old Legend now sits, without batteries, of course, on a box on a closet shelf, where it has nothing to do. I would give it away except that it has had "power problems" (I think) for years. It'll be running and then suddenly the display shows a series of vertical lines, and the unit is hung. Have to remove the batteries and replace them before the unit works again. The 20 has issues of its own, but it does a lot.

[+Chrysalides]

I use a 'paperless' GPS ... just download pocket queries from here and all the info you need is on your GPS.

I use a combination of paperless methods - loading caches from GSAK into my Oregon, loading POI into my Nuvi, and smartphone app. Smartphone app, if where you're going has decent reception, is by far the easiest. But I'd still enter the coordinates into my Oregon to do the actual find.

[+Bubbles&Bonkers]

Thanks for the info! I hope I find one in my stocking. Does anyone need my addy?

[+geodarts]

The paperless gpsrs are still not quite paperless enough for me. Earthcaches often need graphics that they do not automatically provide. And following detailed descriptions for letterbox hybrids and some mysteries is not the easiest for me on the handhelds I use.. But the iphone/gpsr technique works for me.

 

I download all caches I might want to my iPhone 5 (either through a pq or live search) and use Geosphere to maintain particular databases. I export any groups of caches to my gpsr through the phone (using kingston MobileLite). 95 percent of my caching is done through the phone, which often gets me closer to caches than my Oregon 600, even in steep narrow canyons or forests. The offline maps I use are as good or better than what is on my gpsr. But when I want to use the gpsr, the cache information is near at hand.

[+Team CowboyPapa]

AFAIK, to geocache paperlessly, regardless of make and model of GPSr, one needs to have a Premium Membership.

[+Bubbles&Bonkers]

The paperless gpsrs are still not quite paperless enough for me. Earthcaches often need graphics that they do not automatically provide. And following detailed descriptions for letterbox hybrids and some mysteries is not the easiest for me on the handhelds I use.. But the iphone/gpsr technique works for me.

 

I download all caches I might want to my iPhone 5 (either through a pq or live search) and use Geosphere to maintain particular databases. I export any groups of caches to my gpsr through the phone (using kingston MobileLite). 95 percent of my caching is done through the phone, which often gets me closer to caches than my Oregon 600, even in steep narrow canyons or forests. The offline maps I use are as good or better than what is on my gpsr. But when I want to use the gpsr, the cache information is near at hand.

 

I've cached a lot with my phone, but the battery dies out and I think my eTrex gets me closer. At least that's my experience. You're throwing words I don't know: Geosphere, export, Kingston MobileLite. Maybe geocaching is too complicated for me now. I haven't been to the forums in a while...

[+Bubbles&Bonkers]

AFAIK, to geocache paperlessly, regardless of make and model of GPSr, one needs to have a Premium Membership.

 

When I originally read this post, I thought AFAIK was another geo-term I didn't know! Like, yeah, I've definitely been away from the boards too long. Then I googled it. Haha! Yes, I do need to get my premium membership back, I let it lapse awhile back.

 

TYVMFTI. (Thank you very much for the information )

[+MountainWoods]

The paperless gpsrs are still not quite paperless enough for me. Earthcaches often need graphics that they do not automatically provide. And following detailed descriptions for letterbox hybrids and some mysteries is not the easiest for me on the handhelds I use.. But the iphone/gpsr technique works for me.

 

I download all caches I might want to my iPhone 5 (either through a pq or live search) and use Geosphere to maintain particular databases. I export any groups of caches to my gpsr through the phone (using kingston MobileLite). 95 percent of my caching is done through the phone, which often gets me closer to caches than my Oregon 600, even in steep narrow canyons or forests. The offline maps I use are as good or better than what is on my gpsr. But when I want to use the gpsr, the cache information is near at hand.

 

Perhaps. But I can download geotagged photos into my eTrex 20 and have the geocache and/or waypoint (I do Waymarking) linked to the photo. I've used that several times when I thought something might be difficult to locate, and there was a useful photo to assist me. It is not sophisticated, but it works.