[Az-Geocaching] If It's Not a Find, What Is It Then?

[Scott Wood]

At 10:26 PM 12/7/2004, you wrote:
>That's an easy one.
>
>I use a "Note" for situations just like this.  The only situation you've 
>described is the 4-time attempt... I would log a DNF there.  What I've 
>done in the past is edit the old DNF note and update the date and log to a 
>'find' when I eventually succeed.
>

This has come up before on this list, but I am sure that there are many 
here who were not around for many of the discussions.

I completely disagree with you when you say that you edit your note to a 
find.  I believe that you should leave all of the logs intact.  Those logs, 
whether they are finds, no finds, or notes, are part of the history of that 
cache, and thus are part of that cache itself.  If I couldn't find a cache, 
and I later did find it and simply edited my could not find log, then the 
fact that I did try to find it, and failed, is lost.  The real history of 
that cache is that I failed once, and did find it the next time.

So far, in the time we have been caching, we have had two of our logs 
deleted by the cache owners.  One was a find, and one was a could not 
find.  It upset me far worse on the could not find log than it did on the find.