What equipment do you have?

[dthurk]

We have 2 units that we use.  In the car, we have a Lowrance iWay 350 navigator.  It works quite nicely for us and didn't cost a huge amount of money, probably $370 or so.  Not bad for a unit with a hard drive and detail maps of the USA, Canada and Mexico.  I did not want to buy a unit that required swapping memory cards for detail, nor did I want to spend a lot of money.

The Lowrance does not work well at all for GeoCaching, so we bought a Magellan eXplorist 500 as a family Christmas present this year.  We really like this unit.  We've used it to find several caches to date.  We're looking forward to exploring new areas on our camping trips, as soon as this weather breaks.

[OGCG]

I've used the old cheap Garmin etrax for 2 years,now
(145 caches ) "works for us" .

[beacher]

For the past two years I have used my trusty Garmin Rino 130 for everything from Geocaching, to long summer trip Route planning with MetroGuide.  It's also my handy FRS radio, compass, and en-route gas station and restaurant finder.  I can also see my exact altitutude, (but I hardly ever use that feature).

If I desire fancy color autorouting, with voice prompts for when to make a turn,  I simply plug it into my Palm Zire PDA running DeLorme Street Atlas USA.

[sacrawf]

I use a Garmin Etrex Vista that I purchased in a Gander Mountain Stores kit with the topographic map software, computer interface wire, and a case.  I added a bicycle handlebar mount and a suction cup windshield mount. I have been pleased with it so far.

[Jestercat]

We bought our first GPS in 2004.  A Garmin 76S.

We recently bought the first Garmin Etrex Legend of several we plan to purchase in the next couple of months.

Mommy B is a certified GPS instructor and she is gearing up to start her own business, teaching others about GPS, topo navigation and Geocaching.

I for one am sold on Garmin, they seem to have the best user interface of any I have seen or tried.

Just my .03

(which is .02 for our American friends here)

J

[mlslocks]

explorist 300 & etrex

only 7 finds so far. I don't get out as often as I'd like.

[sacrawf]

My older Garmin Etrex Vista sometimes acts like it "shorts out", making lapses on tracks on hiking trails or making it difficult to locate a cache.  The software download helped some, but it may be time to start thinking about a new one. Does anyone have experience with the Garmin Colorado 400t or Oregon 400t models?  (I use the Etrex a lot with a bicycle mount, hiking, geocaching, and marking fishing spots in the boat, and it has been dropped more than a few times).

[haroldPE]

have an eagle for the boat, but in the car and for caching, been using the garmin nuvi 350.

seems to work fine for caching, getting close in the car, then switch to 'off-road' pedestrian mode and zoom up for the cache.

whenever we go camping, we download bunches of nearby caches, convert with GPS-babel, and upload with POI loader.  This puts points in their own directory on the garmin, and does not co-mingle them with other POI's.  That way, I can delete all the camping poi's in one step after the trip.

I use a sprint treo to access geocaching.com for displaying descriptions during the hunt, resulting in totally paperless caching.