Breaking News: Groundspeak has Granted Lab Caches to NoVAGO for the October 28th Fall Event

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We have teased a bit that we have bigger things in store this year at our annual fall event. The Officers have decided it is finally time to share our big news: Groundspeak has given us THREE LAB CACHES for the attendees to find at our NoVAGO’s 3rd Annual Hauntingly Familiar Fall Event on October 28th!!!! … Continue reading →

Puzzled? Don’t Fret… Help is on the Way

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NoVAGO Puzzle Cache Workshop Sunday, October 15, 2017 (1:00-4:00 p.m.) Bull Run Regional Library 8051 Ashton Avenue Manassas, VA 20109 Having trouble with puzzle caches? There are a lot of them out there. These pesky little devils seem to get filed in one of two places by most cachers. There are them that loves ’em and them that hates ’em. If you are in the latter category (or in the former and just want to practice), this may be the event for you. This event will be geared toward beginning puzzlers. There will be a session later in the year geared toward more advanced stuff, but for today we want to get folks started. We welcome more advanced folks but don’t want you to be bored. … Continue reading →

NoVAGO Celebrates CITO Week with Multiple Fall Events

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On Saturday, October 1st 2017 join the NoVAGO for our Fall CITO at Burke Lake Park. This is a popular place for hiking and families with some of the best trails around including a scenic 4.78-mile fitness/biking/hiking trail which loops around the 218-acre lake. It is also home to one of Virginia’s oldest active geocaches! This is an excellent opportunity to give back to Mother Earth by picking up trash and helping with trail maintenance at this great Virginia park all while earning the exclusive CITO 2017 souvenir. The normal $10 per day Park fee for noncounty residents will be waived by the Park for all CITO participants. You will need to tell the Park Ranger at the gate that you are here for “Geocaching” AND for the “NoVAGO Fall CITO Event”. NoVAGO Fall CITO at Burke Lake Park Sunday, October 1, 2017 (9:00-11:00 a.m.) Burke Lake Park 7315 Ox Road Fairfax Station, VA 22039 … Continue reading →

Fall Auction List

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NoVAGO’s 3rd Annual Hauntingly Familiar Fall Event October 28th is is quickly approaching and with that comes our annual Fall Event and Auction.  This auction is what sets up NoVAGO’s operating budget for the following year.  Please remember that donations benefit NoVAGO directly. This is NoVAGO’s primary fund raiser, and it allows us to pay for CITO materials, event pavilion rentals, and furnish the burgers, dogs, and sausages for each of our seasonal events, and covers our web hosting fees. If you have an item you’d like to donate, please contact Awesnap via a message on gc.com, e-mail, or even Facebook.  Please describe the item, and state your silent auction opening bid if you desire to have one. Pictures are great as well! You are welcome to donate anonymously if you so desire. If you’d prefer, you may also contact any of the other officers.  Here’s the Silent Auction Catalog, … Continue reading →

Introducing NoVAGO Spotlight Questions

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On August 21, 2017 the first NoVAGO Spotlight Question was been published in the forums. Last month NoVAGO sent out an email of 5 questions to about 50 of its members old and new on 5 different topics of geocaching.  In the email it said “I am asking 5 questions and just answer with a paragraph, a few sentences, or not at all.  You can be funny (but honest), serious, scary, or whatever.  Then I will pick one question and share everyone’s answers to it in the forums.”  These “rapid quick fire questions” ranged from scary stories, to recent fantastic caches found, and police encounters while out geocaching. Hopes were that we would here from both members old and new.  Some of our members were spotlighted almost a decade ago, so this was great way to get their voices and wisdom back into the forums in a fun way. This month’s … Continue reading →

NoVAGO’s Pathtag Treasure to be Availiable at the Mary Hyde Event

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Ahoy mateys!  Join NoVAGO as we kick off the four week summer souvenir geocaching event “The Lost Treasure of Mary Hyde.  Meet new folks and build your friend teams to make way to earning a second souvenir later in the month. NoVAGO Sunday Hyde and Seek DATE: July 16, 2017 TIME: 11 am to Noon WHERE: Woodbridge Wegmans (Upstairs Eating Area) For more information on the Summer Event check out Groundspeak’s Geocaching Blog: Pirates on the lookout: Introducing the Friend League NoVAGO X PATHTAGS ARE AVAILABLE AGAIN! Earlier this year NoVAGO had a special Pathtag made for our 10 year anniversary. These tags sold out within minutes of becoming available.  NoVAGO is please to announce that we have made a second order of these and these will be available at this event and future NoVAGO hosted events.  Tags are $1 each and sold in bags of 5, 10 or 20. … Continue reading →

Scotts Run CITO a Success!

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NoVAGO would like to thank both it’s members and the MGS for making the clean up at Scott’s Run a huge Success.  Over 23 geocachers and family woke up early Saturday and volunteered to pick up trash.  Many of the usual litter suspects where there for the pickings like beer bottles, bagged dog poo, cigarettes, a shoe, and a I saw one tire made it in the pile.   … Continue reading →