[Az-Geocaching] Differences in caching difficulty ratings (Was: Garmin 60CSX)

[AZPAUL]

Debbie Austin and Brad Bittorf wrote:
> We had a lot of practice with the demons here in the Tucson area, and 
> we went mostly non-stop over the weekend.  We did run into a few new 
> hide techniques that stumped us, especially east of Yuma.  We found a 
> lot of hides that seemed about a full point higher in difficulty than 
> they would be if they were in Tucson.  We saw a similar thing, though 
> not quite as pronounced, when we were in Safford--they were ranked 
> maybe 1/2 point more difficult than in Tucson for the same kind of hide.
>
There are a lot of caches that are under rated in Difficulty, in Tucson.
> The Tucson community has a lot of evil in them (I say that lovingly).  
> Can't compare to Phoenix--we still haven't cached up there.
Phoenix has some really nasty caches also...
> We are using a Garmin GPSmap 60 with nRoute and Clayjar GPSWatcher on 
> the laptop.  Can't compare our GPSr to much else, ours seems a bit 
> more stable than some of the Etrex units our friends have.  We do seem 
> to be wearing out either our cable or USB port with a lot of 
> connect/disconnect cycles--not sure the cure for that.
> Brad, T9L
I have had the same problem with my 60c the usb port came undone from 
the printed circut. Luckily it also has a serial port and I had a cable 
left over from a 72 that I started caching with. The down loads are 
slower, but it saved me from having to buy another gpsr.