Yes, I have. I like to use the analogy of not being able to find a bar of soap in an empty bathtub. Sometimes I hope that the cache or waypoint is indeed missing, but usually someone logs a find shortly after. Sometimes I blame my DNF on having my dog along and not being able to concentrate on the search. Other times I just don’t care to look all that hard because the trip there was enough reward.

I had one a couple weeks ago. I went to the cache and used the clue. I found the spot that just had to be where the cache was, but nothing. Later on, I read someone found it out in the open a ways away from the intended spot. I wonder why I didn’t find it? Oh well, I figure finding it or not finding it or running up my totals doesn’t put a dollar in the bank. I’ll just keep a watch on my DNF’s and come back when the time is right.

One thing I am curious about. Were there hints or not? Good ones or too general to help?

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Originally posted by sbukosky:
Yes, I have. I like to use the analogy of not being able to find a bar of soap in an empty bathtub.

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The bathtub is empty Steve, there is no bar of soap there.

We know how you feel and loved both analogies. I think some NFs are inevitable. I can recall standing in an open area under a clear Indiana sky with fresh batteries in the GPSr and watching the needle swing this way and that as the digital distance went through a list of random numbers suitable for filling out a lottery card. Then there are days we have had rock solid fixes on THE location and came up empty … rather humbling. kaka occurs.

Originally posted by Trudy & the beast:

The bathtub is empty Steve, there is no bar of soap there.

Now that I think about it, that would be the case, wouldn’t it? I concur about the Grape Tangle. I kind of circled in on that one, first passing by the correct northern entrance then going east of it and then entering from the south. Much crawling and such was necessary and then the cache was pretty easily seen. Once the cachework was tended to, I looked at my breadcrumbs and saw that I had passed rather close to here from the north and thus found the easier way that I should have taken in. I seem to remember some kind of small pool like a sunken bathtub very near by. I hope this isn’t too much of a spoiler

[This message has been edited by sbukosky (edited 07-06-2003).]