Utah Geoaching at the End of 2021
We have came to the end of another year. 2021 slowly creeps out and the new year will pop in soon. We are still here. It seems things have slowed down a bit, but I would have to see what Punk Rock Girls thinks. However to me it appears we have slowed
The reviewer numbers
I have not looked deep. Some of the old cache pages I could look at this info is gone,. So I am digging this information through other sources.
If it has not happened yet it will soon. I will pass 30,000 caches published as BlueRajah and GeoawereUSA2. I am trying to pull info now, but it has stalled for 15 minutes. I am close if i have not. That is since.2009, so it has been a while.
Punk Rock Girl has been going since 2013 and I think he passed 10,000 total published.
I had not realized the dates. Here is a list of all the reviewers that were assigned to Utah at different points. It is surprising to me.
BlueRajah - 12.5 years
Punk Rock Reviewer -8.5 years
UtahAdmin - 2 years 10 months
Red Hiker - 2 Years 6 months
Irishe - 1 year 10 months
Mtn-Man - 1 Year 10 months
Lord Stirling - 10 months
HighCountryAdmin - 10 months
What happened to them all?
Lord Sterling retired in 2020 from helping around the world
HighCountryAdmin retired from reviewing in 2017
Mtn-Man retired from reviewing in 2019
Irishe was one of the founders of Groundspeak and ran the company for many years.. I have not heard from him since his retirement from Grounspeak to work on other project.s
RedHiker - stopped reviewing for some time and left for California to work. He picked up reviewing there. He recently moved back here and still reviews california.
UtahAdmin Does not appear to be caching anymore.
Punk Rock Girl is still causing problems
BlueRajah is as well.
Utah Numbers
In 2015 we hit 29,500 in the state. Then that number crawled over 30,000 caches before dropping below, bumping above, then sliding below. Currently six years later we are at the same number.
It seems Punk Rock Girl and I archive about 1500 per year. We publish about 2500-3000 so a large number of caches are archived by their owners. Thanks for that. It is so much easier for everyone if you take care of them yourselves. However a large number either ignore their caches, or they leave the game to never be heard from again.