Help with Garmin Etrex 10

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I purchased a Garmin Etrek 10 and was wondering if anyone could tell me how I can load coordinates onto it please the instructions are very basic and just don't know what to do. Any help would be muchly appreciated.

[+EEKJeep]

You can enter waypoints manually by going to "Mark Waypoint" on the main menu. Currently, geocaches can be downloaded by connecting the unit to your computer via USB and using the Garmin plug-in. (Click on "Send to GPS" from the cache page.) I know that Chrome will soon stop supporting that plug in and I think separate Garmin software will have to be used--not sure about other browsers' future support, but they seem to be directing people to IE.

[+Bear and Ragged]

Always Pocket Queries for Premium Members...

 

FREE 30 day trial > http://www.geocaching.com/garmin/freetrial.aspx

 

IF you try it, before loading Premium Member files, DELETE all Basic Member files you have loaded.

[+GeoTrekker26]

Excellent advise by Bear and Ragged. If you feel that learning PQs might be more than you want to tackle right now, the premium membership trial will also allow you to use the Get GPX file button with which you to send single caches GPS. This gives you the hint, description, and recent logs on the GPS, which is super handy when you are looking for that elusive cache.

[+deepo]

You can enter waypoints manually by going to "Mark Waypoint" on the main menu. Currently, geocaches can be downloaded by connecting the unit to your computer via USB and using the Garmin plug-in. (Click on "Send to GPS" from the cache page.) I know that Chrome will soon stop supporting that plug in and I think separate Garmin software will have to be used--not sure about other browsers' future support, but they seem to be directing people to IE.

 

You are right, Chrome no longer supports sending data to Garmin's GPS's. I use Internet Explorer for that on my Windows 7 computer.

 

/Mogens