VinceHayter: When I first moved to MD 20 years ago (good grief, has it really been that long?), Last Lap Gang’s (Russ and Erin’s) caches were among the first I found and more than one gave me the slip…repetitively. Ironically, I look back on those hard won DNFs because they embodied the nature of the game at its best in its early days - get out into nature, and have an adventure. I will always be thankful to LLG for the experiences they provided through their hides. To that end, “LONG LIVE TIMREK!” (IYKYK…)
However, nothing lasts forever. The game moved on, I moved on; and while this is a beautiful area, it’s ready for something new which will better fit what the game - which is good and, frankly, overdue. It’s been made fairly clear to me that no one enjoys the challenge of this hide any longer, and I genuinely take no pleasure in keeping something around that no one is enjoying. This should have happened earlier, but for weal or woe, it’s being put to rest now.
To keep with the spirit of the cache, I close with these words of Alfred Lord Tennyson,
“Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,
In looking on the happy autumn-fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more.”