Finding My Dnfs

[+kbootb]

I thought I would spend a little time having another go at caches I had failed to find. I could remember a few of them but there are about 5 that were in an area I don't know well and for the life of me I can't remember the cache names, or for that matter where abouts I was. I can remember a few (visual) details but it could have been when I was on holiday or just a part of London/Essex I don't normally visit.

 

It doesn't seem possible to search for DNF entries you have made.. unless you know different.

[+Orchards Finest]

My account

Tab: Geocaches

Show: Didn't find it

[markandlynn]

click here

[Deego]

****

Edited February 27, 2006 by Deego

[+kbootb]

Thanks guys, I never spotted that one.

 

Found the list of DNFs (now got to find them for real)

 

No wonder my memory wouldn't work. They were caches near an airport that I had to pick my daughter up from. I had a couple of hours to kill... but I had forgotten I had even been there.

[+Tharagleb]

I also keep a bookmark of my DNF's for future reference.

[Deego]

I also keep a bookmark of my DNF's for future reference.

 

I keep mine on a web page DNF's Must get back to a few of mine as well

[+Chaotica_UK]

At what point do you go back and do DNF's?

 

I know it depends on the particular circumstances, but personally if Im the first not to find after a sensible duration of searching I log it and wait to see if the next couple of visitors find it without a problem if so I go back and try again.

 

The trouble Ive found in my local area is that if you record DNF's against caches others are reluctant to make the trip out to search themselves so Im always very careful about when I do record DNF's.

 

Mark

[+The Bongtwashes]

I also keep a bookmark of my DNF's for future reference.

I keep a note of them on my watchlist. I keep being reminded of them if others find them , but also get notification of them if they've been muggled and then again when they've been replaced .

[+Chaotica_UK]

Yes I put them on my watchlist as well.

[+Tharagleb]

At what point do you go back and do DNF's?

 

I know it depends on the particular circumstances, but personally if Im the first not to find after a sensible duration of searching I log it and wait to see if the next couple of visitors find it without a problem if so I go back and try again.

 

The trouble Ive found in my local area is that if you record DNF's against caches others are reluctant to make the trip out to search themselves so Im always very careful about when I do record DNF's.

 

Mark

 

Since my DNF's haunt me I try and pick them off whenever I can. Sometimes I have to wait for the snow to melt before I can attempt them. I also get nofications from my DNF bookmarks so that if somebody else finds them I know they are findable by *someone*. I have a seperate bookmark list for archived DNF'ed caches, since they are permanently out of reach.

[+Alibags]

I will try to clear up DNFs by revistiting them when I can, but if they are well out of my usual caching area, then sometimes they just have to wait. I have just had a look at my list :

 

13 not found, but subsequently returned to find 10 of these (still not been back to Green Park yet)

 

14 not found which were subsequently confirmed as missing. About 2/3rds of these are archived now, the others have been replaced but I have not got back to as they are out of my area.

 

1 DNF because the cache page was in dutch and I got awfuly confused. Will have another go at it in 2007 when I am back. My friends have taken the numbers I gathered and gone back and found the cache with them, and I was ever so close, just didn't understand what the setter wanted me to do with the numbers... nor the clue (But top marks to Alice Band for effort!).

 

I reckon that if I always found EVERY cache there would be no fun in it, and you need the occasional DNF to keep you on your toes... just as you need DNF logs on your caches to let you know you have not made then ridiculously easy!

[+Pharisee]

I only bother to go back a second time if I consider the cache or location to be 'worthy' of a second visit. If it was a cache that had little or nothing 'going for it' then I don't bother. I'm not at all interested in lists or 'clearing them off'. There are too many new ones out there to be found without wasting a second visit on a cache with little to commend it (and there seems to be an awful lot of them about now.... but that's a whole new can of worms!!! )

[alistair_uk]

I keep a mental note of any DNFs and do like to go back and find them. Doesn't GeocacheUK have a facility to track caches that you DNFed and have not found?