My Technology Stack

I use a variety of different devices and software, depending on what geocaching I’m planning to do.

• The Geocaching website for logging finds. I always create drafts logs on my devices, upload, and then process them through the website.
• An iPhone with the cachly app and the official Groundspeak geocaching app – for occasional and unplanned finds.
• A Garmin Montana 700 for long days out, where the phone would struggle with battery life and/or the phone signal might be dodgy.
• GSAK (Geocaching Swiss Army Knife) for planning batches of caches to load to the Montana.
• Either memory-map or Garmin Basecamp for visualizing geocaches at home overlain onto various different mapping layers.

That’s quite a lot of different tools for a supposedly free hobby. None of them quite did everything that I wanted. This lead me to pursue quite a lot of customization, as you can see from the posts below. Searching the internet for new techniques brought me back quite regularly to my own blog posts. I can only conclude that I am now a proverbial big fish in a small pond for some of the subjects here.

Many of the posts here include downloadable items and instructions on how to use them. All of the downloads are free, but I will take a dim view if you change a single word and then sell it on as your own.

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