Over the weekend, I took the kids geocaching for the first time in quite awhile. Before heading out, I fired up our Garmin 60CSx GPS, plugged it into my MacBook Pro* and then headed for to load up some caches.
I grabbed the nearest twenty or so, but only printed out the descriptions for the nearest five or six caches since we were in a hurry. This worked well enough, but we actually ran out of caches to hunt for while we were out and about.
I had the coordinates for a bunch more loaded into the GPS, but I didn’t have the associated cache descriptions. While I managed to navigate and pull up some additional cache descriptions on my Centro, it was far from painless. Thus, I was thrilled when I returned home and discovered their mobile site:
The availability of this site means that we can easily transition to paperless caching without having to jump through any additional hoops. No need to generate , no need to sync extra files to my Centro, etc.
It’s also worth noting that has a for the iPhone. Now I just need to get myself one…
*Note: Unlike the olden days, Garmin now has .
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You can use a java enabled mobile phone for geocaching with the free program GeoShrine.
Try it out