[Re: [Az-Geocaching] Why very few new caches lately in Arizona?]

[Mark Heitowit]

Would they have to be member only caches to make Ken happy? (Just joking,
couldn't resist).

"Trisha" <trisha@brasher.com> wrote:

> OK, not to belabor my point (but I guess this will) I just checked the
> AZ caching stats. Of the top 25 teams, all with over 350 finds, just
> over half have hidden LESS THAN 10 caches. I'm not picking on anybody
> in particular, but maybe if those who are benefitting the most (most
> finds) would step up and put out a few more caches (no more excuses!
> you have over 350 finds!) then it would make Ken happier....?
> Trisha "Lightning"
> Prescott
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 12:02:18 -0700 (PDT), Ken Akerman wrote:
> 
> 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)
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