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Hey, I’ve got an idea. A wonderful, brilliant new idea.
Everyone should log when they DNF rather than being too lazy or too proud.
I’ve logged every single DNF I’ve ever had. Even multiple DNF’s.
There… now I got that off my chest.
I always log our first DNF on a cache. If I go back the next day and still can’t find it, I doubt there’s much added value in adding another log, so I tend to just log it once.
cheeto, I like your thinking! This is a big pet peeve of ours, too. No shame in missing some.
Well, maybe some, but still….LOL.
We agree… it really helps the owner and other searchers know what is going on. We had a DNF today and it was obvious that others have been there searching but no DNF’s…????
TE
I just checked my stats and to date I’ve logged 76 dnf’s. Occasionally I skip one, but that’s only when I’m positive that I’m just “stupid” that day and I probably should have made the find. I have a lot of hides and check on them when there are multiple dnf’s. I also read every log for my hides which on some weekends exceeds 100. It helps me maintain my hides and make adjustments where necessary.
I’ve logged 171 DNF’s over time, I log a DNF if I’ve been able to give the area a good search, I usually post a note if I had to leave due to muggles or other non cache specific reasons. As a cache owner with multiple hides it is nice to have DNF’s posted and I can get out and work on a hide if needed instead of it just not being found for a while and I check on it and it is gone with no DNF’s posted and cachers finding all my other ones in my area over and over. I find it funny that experienced cachers would not post a DNF. I could understand if newbies are the ones and are not so sure of the game.
I am going to build on this topic also. I just checked on a cache that had not been found since May. Well it was missing but there were no DNF’s posted. Did it just disappear and nobody hunted the cache in 3 months? Probably fell into the I couldn’t find it but pride got in the way of letting the owner know it’s not there.
There is a cache in the Green Bay area – It’s Not About the Numbers : DNFs. I did not know how to look up my dnf’s til I read this cache.
I have over 470!
I looked at mine…
I currently have 639 find logs and 121 dnf logs
man am I bad at geocaching…..
I have 117 listed and there are likely another 50 or so which I did not log because I gave up after walking to the site and seeing a major bushwhack or a swamp or….well you name it I was too lazy to do more than a cursory search.
We can claim 255 DNF logs. The only time we don’t log one is if we were the last people to search and had already logged the most recent DNF.
I do think that most experienced finders log their DNFs. You can see this by looking at the DNF logs on the recent logs page. I would think that anyone posting here probably already understands that posting DNFs is necessary to keep the cache listings accurate. Now if we could just get all the cache owners to pay attention to them…
But…. what if you find everything you look for?
Like most here, I log DNFs if we really looked. If we gave it our best shot, the cache owner should at least get a good chuckle or know that the container may be gone or the difficulty may be too low.
It’s not about the numbers, but in the past year I think we’ve DNFed in five states. 😆 😆In the beginning of my career I DNF’d a lot. Now I have pretty good luck finding the cache if it is there to be found. I do limit myself to 15 min. Rarely will I search longer than that. I have limited patients and time.
@nohandsgps wrote:
In the beginning of my career I DNF’d a lot. Now I have pretty good luck finding the cache if it is there to be found. I do limit myself to 15 min. Rarely will I search longer than that. I have limited patients and time.
You do know, if you jump into the pool with all the big guys, you are going to get picked on?!!
And who are your ‘patients’ that infer with your caching? Perhaps you should another line. 8)
I can handle getting picked on. Heck I wear my GPS on my chest.
I don’t know how you power cachers do it. If I was caching in a group and looking for 50 caches in a day…somebody would be left in the woods.
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