nüvi caching

Have been doing research on “nüvi caching”.  Earlier in the summer, while talking with DRMOO at an dinner event in Ontario, we learned how they used a nüvi to navigate to the cache locations.  Once they got near the cache, they used their handheld unit.  We plan to use our nüvi in the same manner.

To load the caches, we used GSAK with the “pilotsnipes” macro.   The macro creates an export file, which is then used as in input to the Garmin POI loader to upload the data into the nüvi.

One can set a distance alert, so that you receive a beep/visual prompt when you are within X (feet/meters) of the POI (cache).  We also have access to the description, difficult/terrain ratings, hint, and last 5 logs.  While we’re not sure we’ll give up the PDA, it will be nice to have this information readily available to us, before we attempt to go after a cache.