Magellan eXplorist GC Geocaching Handheld GPS

Comments about Magellan® eXplorist® GC Geocaching Handheld GPS:

I use this product geocaching, and often times it gives me a "wandering" end point, which makes no sense when I'm dealing with a specific geographic location, or it loses signal... which is very annoying. It's also pretty slow to pick up a signal.

Comments about Magellan® eXplorist® GC Geocaching Handheld GPS:

Not very fast for showing location when walking but is quick for showing location when in a vehicle. Constantly loosing signal and then having to powerdown and than turning back on to get map tracking working. The paperless caching is great and downloading your information is easy.

Comments about Magellan® eXplorist® GC Geocaching Handheld GPS:

I use the eXplorist GC for goecaching only, but the base map is great. Almost every road is loaded onto this unit, making geocaching in the city a breeze. Auto-zoom feature is nice. Backlight is controlled by a timer of inactivity. Running the backlight will reduce battery life quite a bit. Toggle button is sometimes hard to use. If this is something that may frustrate you, you may want to look for a touch screen instead.

Geocaching with Multi's or puzzles is a challenge since the software does not have support to add additional waypoints associated with a cache. The work-around is adding waypoints with obvious names. Downloading caches is a breeze. Just drop gpx files onto the device as if it were just another file system.