I've been in Iowa, as usual for me, since middle June and am only now
turning my attention back to AZ. I'll be home in about two weeks and just
now looked at all the new caches that have been placed since I left. I'm not
arguing Highpointer's views, but we all should be happy we live in such a cache
rich area, no matter how it compares to elsewhere. Here in rural Iowa
there are no caches nearby that I haven't found long ago. When the rare
new one is placed within an hour drive it's pounced on like a hungry cat on a
can of tuna.
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 12:02
PM
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)