[Az-Geocaching] Are there any members of this listserv from Flagstaff area?

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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 <jscotti@pirlserver.lpl.Arizona.EDU>
> 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/    
> 
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