Cheers, guys.
My current 'out of the car' gps is a windows mobile running Tom Tom. If there is a road within about 1/2 a mile of my current location then my software likes to assume I'm on it
. But yes, you're definitely right about the trees - it was fairly accurate until will got to the vicinity of the cache, and then it was all over the place.
I'm thinking of getting the Garmin Vista HCX, although I hear rumour that there's a new model out shortly (Colorado?) - any suggestions would be gratefully appreciated. I like the idea of something that tells me a distance and a direction rather than trying to line up a big blue arrow with a big yellow star
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I'm back home tomorrow, and discovered there are a couple of micro caches in my village, so I'll go looking for those either tomorrow or the day after.
I've given up on riddles now (they're stupidly difficult, and very vague even when you know the answer), but may still have a go at the free Isis search.