Congratulations to ZippyFinn for her winning photo titled “Hamming it up at MUSTCACHE!” of Roo at the final of MUSTCACHE! We also offer a big thank you to everybody who participated in the March 2018 photo of the month contest.
Once again Earth Day is almost upon us and one of the great ways geocachers can give back to the community is by hosting CITO events. Groundspeak has announced April 21-29, 2018 as the dates to earn a virtual souvenir on your profile pages if you host or attend CITO an event during this time. Here is the list so far of Souvenir CITOs in the NoVA area: (See cache pages for more details!) Saturday, April 21st 3rd Annual Occoquan River Cleanup – Paddle CITO! Brentsville, VA Hosted by: Hooclass2002 Starts at 9am Sunday, April 22nd NoVAGO Veteran’s Park CITO Woodbridge, VA Hosted by: DePhogration Starts at 1 pm Friday, April 27th Occoquan Elementary CITO IV Woodbridge, VA Hosted by: Awesnap Starts at 7:30 pm Saturday, April 28th Fred Lynn Middle School CITO Woodbridge, VA Hosted by: Awesnap Starts at 9 am Sunday, April 29th NoVAGO 2018 Spring CITO Woodbridge, VA Hosted by: NoVAGO Starts at 9 … Continue reading
Northern Virginia has gone “event crazy” for the upcoming Groundspeak promotion “Planetary Pursuit.” Geocaching’s Official Blog describes this promotion as “The year is 2650. You are invited to join the Geocaching Explorers Club and be among the first geocachers to visit every planet in our solar system, earning souvenirs along the way. Find different geocache types to individually collect points on the Friend League between March 19 and April 8 and earn up to 10 new souvenirs to become an Official Space Explorer.” Attention space explorers! To give geocachers more time to complete their missions, Planetary Pursuit has been extended for an additional week. Please log all your finds before Monday, April 16! You cane score Points as follows: Action Point value Log a Found it on any geocache (Traditional, Virtual, Webcam, Wherigo) 5 Log a Found it on a Multi-Cache or Letterbox Hybrid 10 Log a Found it on a Mystery Cache or EarthCache 15 Log a Found it on a … Continue reading
Congratulations to JPWAVE for his winning photo titled “Lady Bugs’ Picnic!” that he described as “Somewhere…in Southern MD, there’s a ladybug picnic happening right now!” We also offer a big thank you to everybody who participated in the February 2018 photo of the month contest.
March 10, 2018 – Over 24 geocachers descended upon the Thomas Jefferson Library to attend a class titled Let’s take a cachetur. Cachetur.no is the hottest new geocaching application around that lets you plan private trips, group trips and public trips that are open for all. Current NoVAGO President Platoaddict was the mastermind behind this class came prepared with slides and some cool cachetur.co swag for the attendees. While developing this class the developers of cachetur.no reached out to NoVAGO and offered to help in anyway they could. Attendees seemed very pleased with the information from the class. “I’m sure I would not have tackled this resource without your instruction.” said LMNLanchot “Now it’s time to play around and see if I can work it alone.” Zgrav had this to say about the class “Thanks to the CO for a solid presentation with a lot of hands-on assistance and very useful … Continue reading
The NoVAGO Geocache Awards polls are now open to vote for your favorite geocaches, geocachers, and logs from 2017. Voting is open to all NoVAGO members and will be closed at midnight on March 31st NEW DATE APRIL 2nd. Go to the NoVAGO’s 2017 Cache Awards — Voting for more information. … Continue reading
Congratulations to Nothereeiether for his winning photo titled “Finding more than caches!” of HooClass2002 and Cache Clown 76 finding a special made tree just for them while on The Beaver Trail. We also offer a big thank you to everybody who participated in the January 2018 photo of the month contest.
Join us February 25th, 2018 for NoVAGO’s Winter CITO as we help clean up the area around the Jerome “Buddie” Ford Nature Center. This City of Alexandria nature center is located on a 50-acre park nestled along the Holmes Run Stream. This center provides year-round programs, interactive exhibits, as well as taking care of over 30 live animals. This event is being organized in coordination with Nature Center staff, and is designed to assist them in keeping this area clean and beautiful. NoVAGO Winter CITO at Jerome “Buddie” Ford Nature Center Sunday, February 25, 2018 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Jerome Ford Nature Center 5750 Sanger Avenue Alexandria, VA 22311 … Continue reading
On Saturday February 3, 2018 thirty geocachers piled into a classroom for Awesnap’s Planning a Geocaching Road Trip Class. Our new President, platoaddict , want’s 2018 to be the year NoVAGO host’s more educational events. On the horizon there are plans to host classes on a variety of subjects including GSAK, puzzle solving, cachetur.no, earthcaching 101, and a basic cache page creation class. The Geocaching Road Trip class was held in Prince William County at the Chinn Library. Awesnap’s presentation covered the basics of distance caching, selecting target geocaches, routing, project.gc, and a quick introduction to cachetur.no. JPWAVE wrote in his log “I learned quite a bit more than I expected!! Yeah, I may do things in my own fashion but it’s really nice to see other options and new webtools which may be more efficient. EXCELLENT class!! Really looking forward to using these tips on our next road trip!” Ezio10 … Continue reading
Congratulations to all of the 2017 NoVAGO Cache Award nominees! To see a complete list of nominated cachers and caches please go to NoVAGO’s 2017 Cache Awards — Nominees. This year a record breaking 28 cachers nominated 624 the best geocaches, logs, and geocachers of Northern Virginia from 2017. Voting will take place in late March and the winners will be announce at the 2018 NoVAGO Spring Event (TBA). Check back in the future as we update the information on this. In the meantime we encourage all NoVAGO members to hunt down and find these caches before voting. On a sad not there will not be a 2017 NoVAGO Nominations Bonus Cache, nor does it look like there will be anymore in the future. The current challenge cache rules that Groundspeak place in 2017 prohibit challenge caches based on lists of geocaches. … Continue reading