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We’re interested in meeting up around the campfire Saturday night (work calls or I’d come join the fun), but haven’t been able to contact Lil Otter. Anyone who can help out with some coords? Thanks!
Welcome to the club! Come on in the water’s fine 😀 !
Okay, I guess my math was a bit off, I forgot about the Leopold Legacies and I counted the Solar System as before bookmarking.
I doubt either of us will convince the other to change their viewpoint on this topic. The votes have been there to make these series COTM. The voting has also made the majority of COTMs single caches. I don’t see this as a “growing problem”, I see it as good caches getting nominated and winning.
I don’t see series as having an unfair advantage. People are just as likely to try a series as a single cache, and most series are geographically isolated to an area just like a single cache. The cachers in that area are usually the biggest supporters in the voting.
I also recommend caches regularly that will never see COTM. I feel the recommended caches forum is underused, and I could put something in there after every weekend of caching if I wanted to. This state is full of quality caching. But that’s an entirely different subject 😀 .
It’s interesting that bookmark lists are being partially blamed. Looked back and found that only seven series have won COTM, and of those it looks like five won before public bookmarking was available: The Subs, The Universe, Cheesehead Trivia, High Brass and Scatterbrains 2. Which leaves us with The Yellowstone and Chippewa River Trails, both sterling series. That’s a humongous pile of talent for only seven months worth of winners stretching back to ’02.
Honestly, I see the nomination of series as a non-issue. Sometimes the whole is greater than the sum of it’s parts. Route 66 is an American icon. If you made me nail the greatness of it down to just the hotel with the concrete teepees, a lot of people would be left scratching their heads. But add in the burger stands straight out of American Graffiti, the unique signage, beautiful scenery and maybe a tourist trap or two, and you have something.
I did the complete Yellowstone series before some revisions changed a few caches. It wasn’t the bridge to nowhere in Hudson, or the hardware at Butte des Morts, or touring the old breweries of Milwaukee. It was the building sense of what it was like when it took days to travel across Wisconsin and every town was a small town. The unique little places that have no place in our current society. That’s what probably made it COTM.
The Milky Way series down in Milwaukee is all about one really, REALLY well-crafted string of multi-caches. They haven’t made it yet, but they might…
As for the metro areas getting the attention, we’ve seen Lone Rock, Peewee’s Small Falls, Willie’s Mountain Cache and Dr. Evermore and Lady Eleanor. All outside of the southeast and all outside metro areas. Even the ones in cities are getting attention outside the southeast, with Metamorphosis, Shaun’s Castle and Jesus’ Tomb. And this is just in the last year. The only area still lacking attention is the Northwoods, but the body of cachers up there is growing, and if they really love it, one will make COTM.
COTM only brings attention to quality caching. It’s not a stamp of approval. We should welcome everyone into the tent as long as their caches make us smile. I’ll be interested to see where the vote ends.
Congratulations my friend! Thought for sure it would be in merry old England, but that is much more appropriate. I’ll have your cache out soon.
You Picked A Fine Time To Leave Me Lucille. One year and three tries later we found it. Canoe caches definitely don’t see the action, but we’ll be the first to say thank you for placing them.
Hey! We did the Surf Ballroom cache on the way to Oklahoma last year. There’s another one that actually walks out to the shrine at the crash site too. Maybe on the next trip…
Congratulations! Which cache and which state?
Big ups from the Bunnies!
Congratulations! Start polishing that millenium club acceptance speech 8) !
Big ups from the Bunnies!
Don’t know why I haven’t posted to this yet… We’d be glad to help out with an event. Maybe just a simple meet & greet would be nice for starters. Agree on a pizza place everyone likes and then take it over for a couple hours. Get our feet wet and see how many from our area are interested in events?
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I’d prefer something a little jazzy and light, maybe some Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass?
Big ups from the Bunnies! Couldn’t have happened to nicer frommage afficionados. And your new signature items are pretty slick too. How much is a gross of mini-cheeses?
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