I agree with Highpointer. I've been making an effort to place a new cache in the Flagstaff area everytime I head to SLC. In the past few months I've left two: 25 on 66 Wily Navigator I will be heading to SLC in July and have another one planned out. -Rob > > From: Jim Scotti > Date: 2003/06/23 Mon PM 12:57:02 EDT > To: listserv@azgeocaching.com > Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Are there any members of this listserv from > Flagstaff area? > > Well, I've done my part - I put 2 virtuals northeast of Flagstaff after a > trip up there at the end of last month, as well as another on the north rim > of the Grand Canyon.... So far, my 3 new virtuals have had exactly 1 log, > and that on the one closest to Flagpole. Not that I was expecting heavy > traffic, particularly on the remote one, so I'm not concerned about the lack > of visitors.... > > Jim. > > On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Ken Akerman wrote: > > > Are there any members of this listserv from the Flagstaff area? While it > > appears to me that the Phoenix metropolitan area is abundantly rich with > > caches, we can use a few more caches in the higher elevations around the > > Flagstaff area. The Flagstaff area, with cooler weather, is a better > > place to be in summer than the Phoenix area, and there are extensive > > forested areas with low cache density. > > > > According to a search of current caches that I have done, there are 417 > > caches within 25 miles of Mesa, but only 70 caches within 25 miles of > > Flagstaff. Thus, the cache density in the eastern part of the Phoenix > > metropolitan area is nearly six times greater than the Flagstaff > > metropolitan area. I would like to challenge Arizona geocachers to build > > and place more geocaches in the higher, cooler environs of the Flagstaff > > area. > > Also, I have monitoring the differences in number of caches between > > Arizona and Utah. While Arizona has 1574 caches, the state of Utah, > > which a substantially smaller population than Arizona, has 1714 caches. > > Why is Arizona lagging so far behind Utah? We should be outpacing our > > neighboring state to the north. > > (At least Arizona does beat some of our neighboring states, such as > > Colorado (831 caches) and New Mexico (424 caches)). > > > > Ken (a.k.a. Highpointer) > > > > > > Jim Scotti > Lunar & Planetary Laboratory > University of Arizona > Tucson, AZ 85721 USA http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~jscotti/ > > ____________________________________________________________ > Az-Geocaching mailing list listserv@azgeocaching.com > To edit your setting, subscribe or unsubscribe visit: > http://listserv.azgeocaching.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocaching > > Arizona's Geocaching Resource > http://www.azgeocaching.com >