This tutorial will teach you how to set up your geocaching.com account to send you an email when a new cache is published to help aid you in being the first to find. To take advantage of this you need to be a premium member at geocaching.com

1. You wil need to go to your profile and look for the section on the right side labeled “Premium Features” and chose “Set up Notifications”

2. Choose Create a new Notification

3. Give your new notification a name and choose what type of cache you want to watch

4. Choose for what you want to get a notification for the cache type you just selected. For first to find hunters you will want to choose Publish Listing. This will send you an email when the reviewer publishes the cache. Then choose what coordinates you want to search from and then the distance from that point that you want to get notifications. So you could put your home coordinates and then choose 10 miles and you would get an email when ever a cache is published with in 10 miles of your house. THen click Create Notification.

That is the basics on how to set up notifications on geocaching.com

One of the best things about GSAK (Geocaching Swiss Army Knife) is the ability it gives event hosts to prepare and load their new caches into a variety of GPSRs for the attendees. Version 7.6.2 of GSAK now supports the DeLorme Earthmate PN-20/30/40/40 SE broadening that range of supported units. I’ve done some quick tests with my PN-40 in prep for a New Year’s Day event I’ll be attending and it looks to be pretty easy. The first thing you’ll need is the DeLorme USB cable, which of course you could ask the attendees to bring, but the cable is available for $12.95USD direct from DeLorme. With that and a few quick changes to GSAK’s set-up you’ll be able to load your new caches into the PN-40.

The first set is to go into the GPS Setup (from the menu; GPS -> Setup…) and select the “Delorme” brand, then the model. Click “OK” and move on.

Then go to the Send Waypoints dialog (from the menu; GPS -> Send waypoints…) and click the “Change Symbols” button. From the “General” tab pick the “Cache Type Only” and click on the “Save” button.

That’s all there is to the set-up. Simply connect the DeLorme Earthmate PN series GPSR to the computer through the USB cable and click the “Send” icon.

Hopefully this will give the event hosts an easy way to load-up the new caches and the DeLorme users a quicker means to get caches into their GPSR.