2007 Geocache Award Voting Below are the caches and cachers up for awards. You have until the end of March to vote. If you have time, visit the caches below, and then vote by picking one cache from each category, and email your vote to: novagoawards2007@gmail.com … Continue reading
From now and until the 25th of February we will be taking the nominations for the categories below. The list of nominated caches and cachers will be posted for everyone to check out, and then vote on, starting on or before March 1st and will continue until 31st of March when voting will be locked. The winners will be announced at the meeting in April, in Loudoun County Please email your suggestions to the following email address: matsusie(at)gmail(dot)com Cache Eligibility: 1. Cache must have been placed between 1, January 2007 to 31 December 2007 2. Only 2 nominations per category 3. We will be submitting the top 3-5 nominees in each category for your votes. So the more nominations we get, the easier it will be to discern the best of the best. The Categories: Best Theme/Series Best Kids Cache Best Location Best Hike Best History Related Cache Best Multi-Stage … Continue reading
This month’s Member Spotlight is Zgrav and yelraM! Tell us about your caching names. My caching name is Zgrav. It is a one syllable variation on “zero gravity”, which pulls together a way to use my middle initial “Z” with some kind of science-fiction context. yelraM’s caching name is just a reverse of her real name ( Marley) . Tell us how you were introduced to Geocaching. I bought a GPS on sale because I could use it hiking outdoors. I have been a caver since I was a kid, and grew up plotting latitude and longitude on paper topo maps to mark or find cave entrances. When I looked on the internet for tips on using a GPS I discovered geocaching. I was hooked with the idea, and remember the fun of going out on those first searches. yelraM actually made our first find, which she will be quick … Continue reading
Please mark 2 February 2008 on your calendar, and plan to attend!! The “Event” has been in the scrolling window on the homepage for awhile, but it is easy to miss… so I thought I would throw out a reminder. The first Event of 2008 promises to be one you will not want to miss. You will get a chance to meet the 2008 NoVAGO Board, and to participate in a general membership meeting. Put faces to names, renew friendships, meet the new members, and before I forget…bring any and all new ideas on how we can help NoVAGO grow and prosper. There will be a puzzle cache solving presentation after the general membership meeting, great for those of you (us) who are puzzle challenged.
Thanks to NoVAGO’s trusty and loyal leader to help out a fellow cacher in a bind! I am happy to Spotlight him this month and thanks to the others who have volunteered to be in the spotlight in the coming months! **************************************** Introducing rufnredy Tell us about your caching name. Well, not to date myself or make myself seem older than I really am, but my caching name is based on a cartoon show I watched as a growing boy called Ruff and Reddy. In 1957, it became (one of) the first syndicated cartoon shows on TV and was Hanna-Barbera’s first successful cartoon show of many. Some twenty years ago or so, I was looking for a good nick and I came across this show in repeats and decided it was the one I wanted. At the time names were limited to 8 characters so I shortened it to rufnredy … Continue reading
Tell us about your caching name. I took my caching name from a beautiful wildlife preserve in Loudoun County that I have visited as a birder for years and where I volunteer from time to time. Here is a description of the names Origin: In the early part of the 19th Century, the owner of the farm now called Banshee Reeks was said to be of Irish/Scottish descent. In the Gaelic language, banshee is a female spirit and reeks refers to hills and dales. The story goes that one night the farmer went into the town of Leesburg to attend to personal business and also paid a visit to the local saloon. Upon arriving back at his farm very late at night, with the wind howling and the night animals making their noises, the farmer was in such a state of mind, that he claimed he heard a banshee on … Continue reading
Setting up a CITO takes just a bit of motivation, organization and effort which results in a huge difference in the areas we play our game. You are obviously interested so below are a few thoughts I put down based on my limited experience. Hopefully others will add their wisdom. … Continue reading
Tell us about your caching name. First- “Zygote2k”. Around 1999 when everyone was freaking out about the millennium, I heard a Chinese fable about when the 1000 year egg hatches; the world will undergo great changes. At that time my life was undergoing a great deal of changes so I adopted it for my email and caching name. Tell us how you started caching/how were you introduced to caching. In 2003, my new girlfriend- Hayseed 40 was interested in mapping and GIS so I bought her a Garmin etrex Venture for Christmas. During my search for information on GPS, I ran across the geocaching website. 3 days after Christmas, we found our first cache- “Signal Knob”. Tell us about your GPS receiver. I originally had a Garmin etrex Vista, but the click stick broke after 2 years. I took it apart to fix it and realized that was beyond my … Continue reading
Don’t miss the WWFM (World Wide Flash Mob) event on November 10th at Reston Town Center. Event page can be found at geocaching.com. For more information on the “Flash Mob” concept, see Wikipedia. … Continue reading
Tell us about your caching name. Rinauldi is a nickname that I was given in Jr. High School. There isn’t much of a story behind it, but here it is anyway. One of my closest friends had parents who did a lot of international travel. His mom was from France and his father from Rio and they had family spread everywhere. Of course, has was often brought along. For some reason I reminded him of someone he knew from his travels named Renalto, but he thought Rinauldi sounded cooler and started calling me that. I couldn’t walk down the hall at school without hearing “HEY RinnnnnAAAAALDI!” It stuck. College was no escape as we both went to the same school and pledged the same fraternity. I guess at some point I embraced it and made it my own. I came with me into the early days of computer BBS’s because … Continue reading