My delorme pn60 (and me - lousy raincoat) stayed wet the whole time, took everything I threw at it like a champ, and used a single set of AA lithiums. I spent two days hiking and caching in the woods in steady rain. You can geocache with a smart phone, but the first time you dunk your smart phone in the creek, drop it in the road, or forget the charger and kill the battery in a few hours, you'll be wanting that GPS. So - GPS units last a good long while, but like a lot of electronics, you'll want "bigger better faster more" long before it poops out on you. In addition, it used an old type serial port interface (not usb), and computers don't come with those any more (my usb-serial cable still works, but the drivers were causing communications problems across the USB ports). I retired it because it's maps were pretty out of date (duh), I wanted something with better topo scale for hiking, and the case had a few splits (particularly around the battery compartment) rendering it no longer waterproof. I used a magellan sportrak from 2002 until last year. Imagine Disney World with a virtual cache at every ride entrance. I miss the ability to have virtuals, but at the same time, seeing some of the carpetbombing road caches (again, check florida, some roads are just lines of hundreds of caches with no purpose other than boosting numbers) maybe preventing virtual carpet bombing isnt a bad thing. the EarthCache sort of replaced virtuals, requiring someone to answer questions about what they saw. But, much like lamp skirt caches, virtuals got overly prolific and took away from container caches. Check walt disney world - there are five virtuals there because placing a cache on disney property would be an awful thing to keep up with and Disney wouldn't want people being seen hiding things in brush, etc. The virtual was logged usually by the cache finder answering a question or sending in a picture. Virtuals were meant to be somewhere significant that you couldn't place a traditional cache, say at the base of the washington monument looking towards the lincoln memorial, or somewhere on private property where you couldn't place a cache. That's what would have happened had virtuals still been allowed today. Imagine a virtual cache at every lamppost in every parking lot in the world.
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