It completely depends on what’s going on. Yesterday I stopped to look for a cache on a bridge on my way to an event. I had a little time to kill but not a lot, so I searched for a while but didn’t feel like I could devote too much time. I was fine with claiming a DNF, it was still a nice place to stop and look out over the river.
If a cache has a low D rating and I can’t find it then I don’t worry about it too much. I mean, it’s probably gone and spending an hour there would be silly. If it’s a higher D rating then I assume that I need to spend more time there. I can’t even tell you how many, many, many hours I’ve spent at GC3ZMA7, although half the fun in that one is bragging rights on the pain and suffering of the search.
Oh the woes of the short geocacher!
