geopad so we took the ipad geocaching. it's actually an ipad 2. i shelled out the $10 for the geocaching app. it's really an iphone app. so everything looks like it's scaled up. which it is. there were many many caches where we were going. i really wanted to have the damn thing save maps for *all* of the nearby caches. as it was g and i took turns saving 60+ caches. we didn't know which trails we were going to hike. it would have been nice if they used a different color pin for the caches i've already saved. as it was, we looked at the same caches several times. pah. out in the field we didn't have internet access. so caching the maps and descriptions caches was good. the gps was pretty accurate. ie no more inaccurate than our real aviation gps. the big bonus was we didn't have to print all this info on paper. the bad thing was we spent a lot of time hiking around with eyeballs on the ipad instead of talking to each other or looking at the scenery. or watching where we were walking. had at least one near collision. wee. using an app for the first time is always kinda frustrating. even more so cause the damn thing crashed often. the compass map was pretty nice. though there was confusion about which symbol is us (the blue dot) and which is the cache (the green pin). it did reduce the prep work. and certainly reduced the paper work. so i guess all in all it was better. maybe a future upgrade will fix the aforementioned gripes.  ¶ 8:00 AM