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What You’ll Need Here’s the essential equipment you will need for a geocaching adventure.
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A Geocache Crash Course
I stepped outside and immediately reached for my sunglasses. Sunny and cool. It was a good day for an adventure.
First, I had to drive to New Smyrna Beach to meet Jetskier911 — my nearly fearless guide for my first geocaching excursion.
Enthusiast Fegan’s got something to hide
Fegan.
The name popped up numerous times as area geocachers recounted their most memorable finds.
Often Fegan and Survivor Florida were uttered in the same breath.
Who is Fegan?
High-tech gadgets steer geocachers to treasures
It's probably happening within blocks of your housein a park or a parking lot.
You may have seen them — people walking, peering intently into a device a little larger than a cell phone, and then stopping and scanning the ground looking for something.
4 Popular GPS Units
GARMIN ETREX LEGEND
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- Price: $159.99
- Screen size: 1.1 inches by 2.1 inches grayscale
- Batteries: 2 AA
- Average battery life: 18 hours
- Controls: Keypad
- PC interface: Serial
- Waterproof: Yes
- Geocaching mode: No
- Cacher comments: 95 Camaro Couple (Paula Tedrow of Orange City) says they started geocaching with a used Garmin eTrex Legend. It was an accurate, no-frills unit. They have recently upgraded to the lightweight Garmin eTrex VistaHCX because of its color screen, geocaching mode and the ability to download information directly from geocaching.com.
MAGELLAN CROSSOVER GPS
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- Price: MSRP $199.99
- Screen size: 2.11 by 2.81 inches color
- Batteries: Li-on rechargeable
- Average battery life: 8 hours
- Controls: Touch screen
- PC interface: No
- Waterproof: Yes
- Geocaching mode: No
- Cacher comments: The Princess (Pam Atkinson of Ormond Beach) says the Crossover “puts us where we need to be. It’s accurate and has nice features.”
GARMIN 60CSX
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- Price: $399.99
- Screen size: 1.5 inches by 2.2 inches color
- Batteries: 2 AA
- Average battery life: 18 hours
- Controls: Keypad
- PC interface: Serial and USB
- Waterproof: Yes
- Geocaching mode: Yes
- Cacher comments: Jetskier911 (Michelle LaMoia of New Smyrna Beach) says the Garmin 60CSX is accurate in normal use, but experiences some trouble under heavy foliage. She likes the unit’s geocaching mode which allows you to see where you have been, and has ability to download the geocache information directly into the unit from the geocaching.com Web site.
GARMIN COLORADO 400T
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- Price: MSRP: $639.99
- Screen size: 1.53 inches by 2.56 inches color
- Batteries: 2 AA
- Average battery life: 15 hours
- Controls: Keypad
- PC interface: USB
- Waterproof: Yes
- Geocaching mode: Yes
- Cacher comments: Fegan (Forrest Egan of Port Orange) says the technology in the Colorado 400T is “far superior to anything else right now.” All the information about a geocache can be logged into the unit, and geocachers can “hunt for the cache” — paperless.
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