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/*)
>
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