[Az-Geocaching] AZ STATS

[Roping The Wind]

>From: "Creepin' Jeepers - Geocaching 7/01" <creepinjeepers at cox.net>
>Reply-To: listserv at azgeocaching.com
>To: <listserv at azgeocaching.com>
>Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] AZ STATS
>Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 20:34:42 -0700
>
>Scott,
>
>You question is answered here; http://tinyurl.com/bempb


:) Thanks. Yea, I didnt see that at first. But after digging around a bit... 
I found it. :)

I like it! Finally, a more accurate scoring method. As the site suggests... 
a more challenging mountain climbing or long hike cache will see much less 
visitation than an urban cache. That is likely true in 99.9% of the cases. 
It is very true that many, many times you will find a cache with a terrain 
rating of 5 that isnt even a 3! But using the reasoning that the less visits 
on a cache... along with how long the cache has been in existance... 
certainly suggests a given cache is more difficult.

I wish I knew about this ranking system a long time ago! I would have never 
gone after an urban cache in the first place. I love hiking caches and more 
difficult to get to caches.... and now because I have done literally 100's 
and 100's of urban micros... my CP ranking is tarnished forever! :)) LOL  ;)

Unfortunately, while I am more selective in the urban caches I do these days 
(I no longer feel the need to get every cache in the valley!)... urban 
caching is always going to be a part of geocaching for me... and since there 
are sssssssoooooooo many of them.... I will probably never get above my 
current ranking of 7th place! :(  It's hard to not want to go for a cache 
that is 1 mile from home! :)

Scott
Team Ropingthewind