Northern Virginia Geocaching Organization

What were your favorite caches of 2015? This is your chance to nominate those cache that took you on amazing adventures to amazing places! Which were amazingly creative or which drove you mad with the challenge? Did you see something new and unique or one that was extremely well executed? Does one answer the question, which is your favorite cache? Help recognize the great caches and the people who placed them by nominating your favorites for the 2015 NoVAGO Cache Awards! Every year, the NoVAGO community nominates and selects the best caches hidden in the previous calendar year. It’s an opportunity for area cachers to help recognize those that make caching in Northern Virginia a great experience and also a terrific way to highlight caches worth making a detour for. You can find information on the award categories and eligible caches in this forum thread: NoVAGO’s 2015 Cache Awards Nominations. … Continue reading →

Come out and join NoVAGO at our Winter Event (GC69PHC) on Saturday, February 20th from 9:30am to 12:00pm at the Veteran’s Memorial Park Community Center, 14300 Veteran’s Drive, Woodbridge, VA 22191. In addition to providing some breakfast nibbles, we’re also doing a brunch potluck (please post what you plan to bring in your “will attend” log). We will have two short presentations, one by DePhogration on cache containers and one by NutmegBrownie on how easy it is to host a CITO! At this year’s NoVAGO Winter Event we are holding a canned food and coat drive to help support a local charity. This winter’s featured charity is The StreetLight, a nondenominational nonprofit organization who’s mission is to “build strong community by improving the quality of life for impoverished men, women, and children, including the ‘chronically homeless’ in Prince William County and surrounding areas of Northern Virginia.” Donations are purely voluntary and … Continue reading →

Welcome to 2016! I hope everyone had a chance to earn the souvenir as a great welcome to the New Year. Thank you for all the support as we embark on a new adventure. I’m looking forward to an exciting year of caching with my fellow board members, Christina (NutmegBrownie), Mike (CacheClown76), Josh (Hooclass2002) and Chris (Awesnap). If you have the time, we’d love to see you at the Thanks! Event tomorrow evening (January 5) where we will be saying thanks to last year’s officers and volunteers. This is also a great opportunity to meet some of the new board members as several of them will be there as well. And mark your calendars for the morning of February 20 for the Winter Event, we’ll get the cache page published soon with more information. We look forward to introducing quarterly CITOs this year as well as some NoVAGO sponsored workshops. We … Continue reading →

Happy New Year Everyone! With a new year, comes a new NoVAGO Core! Thanks to the following members for stepping up to help lead NoVAGO in 2016: Katie – K8Ydd – President Christina – NutmegBrownie – Vice President Mike – CaheClown76 – Secretary Josh – Hooclass2002 – Treasurer Chris – Awesnap – Public Relations Join us in welcoming them here on the forums. Also please come out this Tuesday, January 5th for NoVAGO’s annual Thanks! event. It’s a great chance to socialize, say THANKS to 2015 and WELCOME to 2016! … Continue reading →