Okay, the votes are in and counted and we have results! Here are the Georgia Outstanding Cache winners for 2007 along with the runners up.

These results will be posted on the website soon. mtn-man has the 2007 banners ready (with two exceptions) and I'll post directions for using those separately. (Here's the link to Joebids' 2006 Outstanding Caches bookmark and 2005 Outstanding Caches bookmark and a link to teambeener's 2004 Outstanding Caches bookmark.)

Many thanks to all who nominated and voted and special thanks to DrPerp for tallying the votes.

So, what you've all been waiting for ...

2007 Georgia's Must Hit Cache
Winner: Oh, Deer (GCNJKB)
Runner-up: Nacoochee’s Revenge (Yonah Mountain) (GC4156)

2007 Georgia's Outstanding Cache Title
Winner: Field Sobriety Test (GC4D15)
Runner-up: Needle In A Haystack (GCH0FA)

2007 Georgia's Outstanding Cache Theme
Winner: Field Sobriety Test (GC4D15)
Runners-up (tie): 2 %'er (GCH5AK), Event Horizon (GC85CE), Survivor Atlanta – Knowledge (GC14JVQ)

2007 Georgia's Outstanding Cache Hike
Winner: Nacoochee's Revenge (Yonah Mountain) (GC4156)
Runner-up: Emery Creek Falls (GC4D43)

2007 Georgia's Outstanding Remarkable Cache Location
Winner: wiseAshe (GC2A4)
Runner-up: Richard’s Flow (GCFO8C)

2007 Georgia's Outstanding Scenic Cache Location
Winner: Tumblin Falls (GCNBDP)
Runner-up: Bell Mountain (GCG0W0)

2007 Georgia's Outstanding Hard to Find Cache - Physically
Winner: Moolah - - A Pilgrimage (GCGW41)
Runner-up: Out on a Limb with NAOMI RUTH (GC168QC)

2007 Georgia's Outstanding Hard to Find Cache - Mentally
Winner: 2 %'er (GCH5AK)
Runners-up (tie): Return to Black Mountain (GCK2OE), Yellow-Black-Stinger (GCJT4Q)

2007 Georgia's Outstanding Multi-Stage Cache
Winner: The Kanati Stone Mystery: Cache 4 of 4 (Finale!) (GCP12R)
Runners-up (tie): BENCHmarked Trail (GCVAYX), Oh, Deer (GCNJKB)

2007 Georgia's Outstanding Micro Cache
Winner: ADD Cache (GCN7TQ)
Runner-up: Watershed Mural (GCZMCC)

2007 Georgia's Outstanding Virtual Cache
Winner: New Manchester Manufacturing Company (GC379A)
Runner-up: GPS Accuracy Checker (GCGJ8C)

2007 Georgia's Outstanding Unknown / Mystery Cache
Winner: Video Killed The Radio Cache (GC10RRK)
Runner-up: Event Horizon (GC85CE)

2007 Georgia's Outstanding Event Cache
Winner: Lunch At The Lake III: (GC13N0F)
Runner-up: CACHE THE AMMO CAN / A FLASH MOB EVENT (GC14MAG)

2007 Georgia's Outstanding Traditional Cache
Winner: Dam, its Sluice (GC15RRZ)
Runners-up (tie): Chestnut Mountain (GCAD91), wiseAshe (GC2A4)

2007 Georgia's Outstanding Creative Cache
Winner: G.E.E.O. Cache Radio (GCW8CB)
Runner-up: Oh, Deer (GCNJKB)

2007 Georgia's Outstanding First Year Cache Hide
Winner: Flat Rock Falls Cache (GC135WK)
Runner-up: G.I.D.S., G.I.D.S. Thousands of G.I.D.S. (GC17TFD)

2007 Georgia's Outstanding New Cache of the Year
Winner: Puzzle Cache. No, really... (GC117G1)
Runners-up (tie): Beasely Knob (GC14KHW), Chickadee with a GPSr (GC14JTT)

2007 Georgia's Outstanding Night Cache
Winner: Find F.R.E.D. on Stone Mountain (GCJ9XT)
Runner-up: Night Owl Walk (GCG76V)

2007 Georgia's Outstanding Cache Log
Winner: Tinsparrow's Log for Roses are Red
Runner-up: benatic's Log for The Liar's Cache

Banners are now online for the 2007 Outstanding Caches. (Except for Cache Theme and Night Cache - we’ll have those shortly.)

2007Outstanding_CacheHike.jpg
2007Outstanding_CacheTitle.jpg
2007Outstanding_CreativeCache.jpg
2007Outstanding_EventCache.jpg
2007Outstanding_FirstYearHide.jpg
2007Outstanding_MentallyHardFind.jpg
2007Outstanding_MicroCache.jpg
2007Outstanding_Multi-StageCache.jpg
2007Outstanding_MustHitCache.jpg
2007Outstanding_MysteryCache.jpg
2007Outstanding_NewCacheThisYear.jpg
2007Outstanding_PhysicallyHardFind.jpg
2007Outstanding_RemarkableLocation.jpg
2007Outstanding_ScenicLocation.jpg
2007Outstanding_TraditionalCache.jpg
2007Outstanding_VirtualCache.jpg

The path to each of these is as follows:
http://www.ggaonline.org/banners/2007Outstanding_CacheHike.jpg

Just substitute the image as needed. To add them to your cache page, feel free to link directly to the image on the GGA site. There is no need to download them if you don't want to.

Here’s the html coding:

<div align="center">
<img src="http://www.ggaonline.org/banners/REPLACE_THIS_TEXT_WITH_YOUR_BANNER_NAME"
alt="2007 Outstanding Cache"></a><div align="left"><br>

Thanks to mtn-man for doing these.

This message has been edited. Last edited by: mertat,

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I'll create another Bookmark for these shortly.
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Wow, I'm humbled that some of my caches made the list. Cool. Thanks all.

~erik~

Edited to add, Mtn-man, could you add a banner for CacheTheme to the list above? gracias.

A very big thanks goes to all who came out and attended and voted for Lunch At The Lake III. It couldn't have been possible without Johnnie and P-Bak. Thanks again, and We'll see ya'll at the lake in '08. BD83.

Will there be nominee banners this year?

Sorry about that. I thought I got them all.

2007Outstanding_NightCache.jpg
2007Outstanding_CacheTheme.jpg

Congrats everyone! I am very honored that my New Manchester Manufacturing Company cache was selected as the outstanding virtual cache. It is one of my favorites and is such a beautiful place.

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Originally posted by Ga Mountaineer:
Will there be nominee banners this year?

Yessir, I have nominee banners just about finished for this year. I will post one tonight for your perusal with further info how to get yours.

This years' sample. If any one has a cache that has been nominated but did not win in their category, and you want a banner to display on your own cache page, email me thru my profile with the banner desired and a return email address, and I will send the banner to you. You will have to host it yourself on your own page.
Congrats to all that were nominated.

As it appears on a cache page:
Along the Way #69

Its good to see some of the old classics like Wiseashe, Field Sobriety Test, and New Manchester Mfg Co on the list. Some of the newer ones go on my to-do list. Thanks to Mertat and DrPerp for a job well done.

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Georgia's Outstanding Caches 2007
. Bookmark created.

Results have now been posted on the website.

Also, mtn-man has created a bookmark of all the GGA Outstanding Cache winners. Note: this bookmark hasn't been updated for the 2007 winners yet but will be soon.

Thanks again to all who nominated and voted and to DrPerp for tallying all those votes!

Updated.

I like seeing the multi-year winners and the multi-category winners. Cool stuff.

Thanks for the award for my "Puzzle Cache. No, really..." I did not realize it had won an award until someone asked me confirm coordinates today.

Thanks from georgiabuddy and downychick for Outstanding Scenic Location award! We were just looking at the winners to see which ones we wanted to try, and their was Tumblin Falls! Cool.

I think that this slate of winners is an excellent representation of GA caches. But I must admit to being saddened at the absence of some of my favorites. Caches like Rocktown and the Toccoa Suspension Bridge and others are still caches of quality even though they are older and may not get nominated or receive votes for that reason.
I would hate to think that a visitor to GA may zero in on the latest and greatest list of caches and drive right past some of the best caches in the state just because the newness wore off of them.

Would it be possible to create a "Hall of Fame" for caches in GA that have excelled or pushed the envelope or attracted admiration/respect over the years? I would like to see that list published as a bookmark so that visitors can see the Georgia's showcase of the best of the best.

Perhaps it would be possible to present a slate (selected by an independant committee or something) of five caches per year (at the same time that the awards are being nominated) then let the membership vote yes or no for each cache nominated for the Hall of Fame.

You've been elected to head up the committee!

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Originally posted by phat.bak:
You've been elected to head up the committee!

WHAT?!?!

Seriously, what is the general opinion on the idea?

I think the bookmark list of the past winners is a great idea. I think the person who would create such a list would be a scholar and a gentleman.

http://ggaonline.org/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/9426060551/m/78...901077974#1901077974

I think that list pretty much shows which of those are some of the Hall of Fame type caches by winning multiple years. For example, Rocktown is on the list with five outstanding cache awards over the years. Several have three or two awards listed. The bookmark list is linked off of the Outstanding Caches web page on our GGA site. I am not sure of a better way to feature those caches other than that. What other way could you promote them? I think an additional category to vote on would be redundant with regard to the "Must Hit Cache" category.

Perhaps mtn-man is right. I certainly appreciate the outstanding cache bookmarks and I try to hit them myself whenever I am near one and have the time to go after it.
But I must admit that when I am going to be in an area, I generally don't look farther back than one or two years at the most to see if there are any award caches in the area. I suspect out of state visitors would do the same. And in doing so they would miss great caches like Arhimedes Spiral, Rocktown, Invisible Cache, etc. These caches are just as fun now as they were in the early 2000s, but because they are not new, they seem to have fallen off the recent outstanding lists.


I guess what I am suggesting is that there should be a list that recommended caches that have exceeded the normal "outstanding cache" mantle. I would like to see a listing of caches that exclude "one year wonders" and truly set apart the best of the best so that a visitor to GA can go to one place and get a listing of caches that will have them coming back for more. It would be Georgia's showcase for geocaching.