Easy GPS???

[tripletrouble]

The Easter Bunny brought our family the Magellen 400. We were hoping to use it to go geocaching, but we had a lot of problems getting it to work correctly. Does anyone have any recommendations on another GPS that is very user friendly that would work well for geocaching.
Thanks!
Missy

 

[tinkerlisa]

We like our Tom Tom. I bought it for DF for Christmas and thought I would never touch it. Anyway, I am basically the only one who uses it now!
We used it going to D.C. this past week and the whole time DF kept saying: This is way better than Mapquest!"
I paid 200 for ours but have seen them as cheap(just as good quality as mine) for 100.

 

[tripletrouble]

Thanks for your reply! What model do you have?

 

[tinkerlisa]

Tom Tom One I think I dont have it on me right now. Its in the van.
What is Geocaching anyway?

The Tom Tom is Very user friendly. We actually know someone that had the Magellan and didn't like it and bought the Tom Tom at our recommendation.

 

[ReAnSt]

What type of problems are you having with the Magellan? Which version do you have an Explorist or Triton? Or some other version?

If you have not read through the instruction manual I recommend you read it from cover to cover.

Geocaching is a hi-tech hide and seek game. You use a GPS Receiver to hunt for hidden caches. Caches are hidden by other Geocachers, they take coordinates when they hide them. Caches typically have small things in them you trade, a log book and pen. They post the coordinates, other clues and perhaps a puzzle to geocaching.com or another website, then others try to find the cache.

The seekers, enter the coordinates into their GPS and head out to find the cache. When the cache is found they sign the log book and can bring an inexpensive item to trade. Such as a carabiner, small toy, mini first aid kit, etc. Some caches are smaller then a film canister so they have just a piece of paper to sign as a log book. Others are larger then a 5 gallon bucket. Most are in between those two sizes.

 

[camkiss]

My family and I use a Garmin eTrex Legend for geocaching. It is an inexpensive hand held that has decent accuracy. Even my 6 year old can get us to the cache when we get close. You can buy them at large sporting goods stores like Bass Pro or Cabelas for around $100.

 

[LPNmom]

We have two GPS, both are garmins, but one is hand held works great for geocaching, and hiking. The other is for traveling in our car for vacations, tells us resturants, entertainment, finds street address, but doesn't work well for geocaching because it doesn't read within a few feet of the geocache. So if you have to go into a park to find the geocache, good luck finding it. We found this out a few months back, the travel GPS works great for getting you near the geocache, but the handheld one gets you right next to the geocache!!! Go Figure, who would think that you needed two types of GPS!!

 

[Eoywin]

My DH got me a TomTom Go in March - I love it! It's very easy to use