i am up here in flagstaff... and i am actually planning a new cache in 
the flagstaff area... just haven't been able to get to it earlier

jason...

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 
> <http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?zip=85201&dist=25&submit1=Submit>, 
> but only 70 caches within 25 miles of Flagstaff 
> <http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?zip=86001&dist=25&submit1=Submit>.  
> 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 
> <http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?state_id=3&submit2=Submit>, 
> the state of Utah, which a substantially smaller population than 
> Arizona, has 1714 caches 
> <http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?state_id=45&submit2=Submit>.  
> 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) 
> <http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?state_id=6&submit2=Submit> 
> and New Mexico (424 caches) 
> <http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?state_id=32&submit2=Submit>).
>  
> *Ken* (a.k.a. */Highpointer/*)
>