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

[GUY ALDRICH]

I think it's the heat!There is not alot of active
cachers here in the summer!
--- Ken Akerman <ken@highpointer.com> 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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