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Sign me up for the raiding party!

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Congratulations on number 200!
Its a lot of fun hitting these milestones.

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Add my congratulations to the list. 500 is such a great milestone.

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I have not done that one yet – I will check my schedule (same as my chore list) and let you know by email if I can make it.

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Great job Mike & Family.
Cook us up another caching trip and we will try match last time.
Only the third team from Wisconsin to make it – way to go!

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I think most of us that bring our PDA’s in the field have queries with cache listings on them so we can “go paperless”. Very handy on vacations too. They also allow you to decode the hints when you get stuck, without doing the laborious conversion one letter at a time.

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COTM while an honor is a less then perfect system to begin with as very few cachers (none for that matter) have visited all the caches in Wisconsin.
There is also very few people who vote each month in the process.
Since the last two months were mentioned, I know that in February when Kimgs Ransom won the award, I was one of the ones to vote for it and have voted for it more then once in the months prior to its winning. I have talked with others who have done the same. It not only deserves the award but was also worth my vote a few months after I visited the cache.
The March cache, Mystery of the Trolls Treasure, was mine and I can assure you that I did not call up all my relatives and have them vote for it, in fact none of them have tried it yet. I have no idea who voted for it and those that did, thanks. I personally voted for Goosey XXII by Natloh2, which I feel should have won the honor and have before and may again.
I have done quite a few COTM’s ,probably more then most, and agree that they all deserve the recognition for one reason or another but some of the very best caches never earn the honor.
I generally will seek out a COTM if I am in the area caching to see why others recommended and voted for it.
I don’t think there is anyone out there that can say that their cache is better then anyone elses and it amazes me that some of our best cache placers have not won the award even though they have many caches that deserve it.
So to answer the question “Is the system rigged” – I highly doubt it. Can any cache win – you bet.
So before anyone starts questioning the process, try out the COTM’s that have won and compare them for yourself. You might just decide like I did that someone else has one you would like to vote for this month, even if you have done it in the past.

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I would go straight to the owner and master cacher JThorson as he has offered help to many on this cache. I agree it is a tough one but once you find it you will understand the clues.

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Great job!
Its been great watching you two cache like crazy over the past months.
Thanks for some great caches you have hidden also.

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I believe the appropriate statistic here is that the average person will ingest 8 spiders during their lifetime while sleeping.
Oh by the way – sweet dreams .

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I agree – excellent choice for number 1000. This one is a classic that everyone should do long before 1000.

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Congratulations to all. How did you have time to eat three meals with all the caching?

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Great job – 500 is one of the big milestones to hit.
My congratulations to both of you.

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Depending on when it is I would be happy to bring along my Dell Axiom and show how I do it with Pocket PC Windows.
All you would need on your laptop is a downloaded query and Gpx Spinner. If the laptop has a USB port I could bring my SD and CF mini drive so it could be demonstrated.
A lot easier from what I understand.

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Well since this subject has strayed quite a bit, I might as well continue the line of thought.
My first computer was a Radio Shack Color Computer III – 8K of memory (who could possibly imagine needing more) and you hooked it up to a cassette recorder to save programs or load programs. Of course a monitor was out of the question and your TV became your monitor. Typing in programs out of computer magazines and amazed to watch them work.
Learning DOS was each users quest and much later when Windows came out I refused to use it as long as I could and insisted my children learn DOS.
Finally programming became my time taker. Basic and then Pascal were the home computing choices.

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