[RE: [Az-Geocaching] Why very few new caches lately in Arizona?]

[Mark Heitowit]

We've stopped at many Utah caches on vacation. Our caches are definately a
higher quality.

"Ed Philpott" <ephilpott@tbirdfurniture.com> wrote:

> Maybe we're a quality state not a quantity state
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com
> [mailto:az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com]On Behalf Of Ken
> Akerman
>   Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 12:02 PM
>   To: listserv@azgeocaching.com
>   Subject: [Az-Geocaching] Why very few new caches lately in Arizona?
> 
> 
>   I've been looking at the list of new caches, and it appears that there is
> very little new cache activity in Arizona during the past week.   There
have
> been only two new caches approved in Arizona since Sept. 2, while in Utah
> there have been 19 new caches approved in the past seven days.
> 
>   There are many great places to put caches in the high elevations of
> Arizona.  There are still many regions of the state of Arizona that don't
> have many caches. I may make one or two new caches and hide them this
> weekend, potentially near the Mogollon Rim.  Don't complain about the heat
> in the Phoenix area - the high elevations are less than two hours away and
> the gasoline is less expensive in towns like Payson and Prescott than it is
> in Phoenix.
> 
>   Why does Utah continue to outpace Arizona in cache activity?  Utah has
> less than half the population of Arizona, yet Utah has 1,893 caches as of
> today, while Arizona has 1,733 caches.  We really should have more caches
> than our neighboring state to the north.  (This has always irritated me
that
> Utah has more caches than Arizona.  Why should Utah be a better geocaching
> state than Arizona?  I would like to challenge Arizona to become the best
> geocaching state in the USA).
> 
>   Ken (a.k.a. Highpointer)
>