Congrats on a “lonely”year! 😀

Thanks all. It’s been a fun year exploring some remote places and solving some gnarly puzzles. For us the fun of the game is finding things that haven’t seen the light of day for a while, in some cases for over two years, and to work on “clearing the map.” The adventure meant more than any score–although I will admit it is fun to rack up numbers and there were times I wouldn’t have minded having the extra “minor maintenance” points of the 2008 season.

It will be interesting to see how many of the single-season marks set in 2009 get smashed in 2010, and by whom. With unfound lonelies getting farther and farther from our home base–something Dave and Alex can surely appreciate as well–and with our personal penchant for logging no revisit points, I’m pretty sure that we are one-year wonders.

So………………….who’s next? 😀

Congratulations, Gotta Run, on your most impressive achievement! And for showing many of us a great model on how to play the game, for the benefit of the sport. 😀

Kudo’s to the accomplishment. I’ve watched your numbers since I started caching in July and have wondered “How do they do it?” I still don’t exactly know, but it had to be fun considering the excitement I get finding a lonely still in tact after many months.

@Sagasu wrote:

Congrats on the awesome year, Michael, and welcome to the club of more limited opportunities! 😯

You got that right! But that’s as it should be, provides more encourgement to new players…especially those with a penchant for solving puzzles in the Appleton area…

@gotta run wrote:

…especially those with a penchant for solving puzzles in the Appleton area…

I had no idea Appleton had any puzzle caches 😕 😉 😕 😉 😕 😉

@-cheeto- wrote:

@CodeJunkie wrote:

@gotta run wrote:

…especially those with a penchant for solving puzzles in the Appleton area…

I had no idea Appleton had any puzzle caches 😕 😉 😕 😉 😕 😉

Crazy Talk I tell ya.

I know you thought the purple pushpins were Tinky Winky tribute caches, but they’re actually puzzles. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. 😥