At 02:23 PM 4/18/2003 -0400, you wrote:

>I agree... History is what it is.  The six tries it took us to find the 
>"Railway Museum" are best viewed as they played out over the course of 
>several days.  Likewise, "Chandler Mini".  Our rule is simple: If we get 
>out of the car, we're looking and that will either result in a find or a 
>no-find... We only use notes for re-visits to a previously found cache 
>(and logs on our own, of course).

I have a rule of thumb.  If for what ever reason I can't really look, like 
the park is to crowded, or something prevents us from getting in the 
general area I will post a note.  If we actually look for the cache and 
can't find it we post a no find.  This goes for caches that are no longer 
there but we still looked because of older data.

I have had a cache find log deleted by the cache owner before, and while 
that bugged me a little,  I had a cache owner delete one of my no find 
logs, along with about a half dozen other no find logs, and that one really 
upset me.  The cache was later found with coordinates about 150 feet off, 
and the mail I got from the cache owner led me to think that my no find log 
somehow detracted from their cache.


>I have even replaced no-finds that a well-meaning cache owner removed when 
>it was ultimately an error in the posting.  The hour spent lurking around 
>a neighborhood in the dark was more storied than the eventual find!
>
>I preserve all of our log entries locally so I can recover them when 
>necessary.
>
>Tim
>Team AZFastFeet
>
>============================================================
>From: Scott Wood <scott@myblueheaven.com>
>Date: 2003/04/18 Fri PM 01:45:03 EDT
>To: listserv@azgeocaching.com
>Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] no-find?
>
>At 10:32 AM 4/18/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>
> >Anybody else feel the same way I do? Or am I alone on this?
>
>I agree.  I always log my no finds.  I do know that there are also people
>who delete their no find logs after they do find the cache later, but I see
>that as cheating the cache of it's actual history.
>
>
>
>Scott
>
>scott@myblueheaven.com
>www.myblueheaven.com
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