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Author: Mark Heitowit
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Subject: Re: [RE: [Az-Geocaching] Why very few new caches lately in Arizona?]
We've stopped at many Utah caches on vacation. Our caches are definately a
higher quality.

"Ed Philpott" <> wrote:

> Maybe we're a quality state not a quantity state
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> [mailto:az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com]On Behalf Of Ken
> Akerman
> Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 12:02 PM
> To:
> 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)
>