Category Archives: Annual NOVAGO Awards

2023 NoVAGO Spring Picnic

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On Saturday, May 6th 2023 from 10am-3pm, NoVAGO held their annual Spring Picnic.  This year the location was at the quite spacious James S. Long Regional Park in Haymarket VA.  The park was beautiful and the pavilion was HUGE. Plenty of room with tables to sit at and stage the massive buffet of munchies. Cherokee3 was our lucky host this year and did an amazing job monitoring the cache page and updating the schedule, food list and parking situation. We got quite lucky with the weather today which can be challenging in Northern VA.  Sunny, a little breezy with light clouds and temperature in the 70’s. Several board members arrived early and started prepping for fellow geocachers to arrive.  Some guests arrived early and started pitching in to help or chatting about.  With the charcoal lit, welcome corner ready with name tags, pens & the log book open, the event … Continue reading →

NOVAGO’s 2022 Geocache Award Winners

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Winners of NOVAGO’s 2022 Geocache Awards Thanks to all those who took the time to send in nominations and also to those who voted. MrPsyduck and Schwandt graciously formed an awards committee and together did the bulk of the work to get the nominations narrowed down and run a ballot. Thank you fellas! At the encouragement of the NoVAGO president, ThompsonKickers, our PR officer whipped up some extra gifts for our winner to go along with the traditional trackable tags. We gathered in James S. Long Regional Park on May 6th, 2023 to find out who would bring home the prizes as well as get to display the special winner’s SWAG on their cache pages. Drum roll, please . . . . And the winners are Best Traditional Cache Kindness Rocks TB Hotel (GC9RXFB) by HyperactiveGirl Best Mystery/Puzzle Cache NoVAGO U: Chemistry 100 & 101 (GC9ZZH5) by hrothroc Best Multi-Cache … Continue reading →

Nominees for NOVAGO’s 2022 Geocache Awards

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Nominees for NOVAGO’s 2022 Geocache Awards Thanks to all those who took the time to send in nominations. While not all nominations were able to make the final cut, we were impressed with every suggestion. The hardworking awards committee have compiled the caches on this list from the very best of 2022. We invite all geocachers to go out and find as many of these wonderful caches as possible. For a geocaching friendly list, CLICK HERE. Click Here to Vote Voting is scheduled to be open for ALL categories April 1-15, 2023. Winners will be announced at our NoVAGO 2023 Spring Picnic and Awards Event on May 6, 2023. Details of the event are in another post. Without further ado, here are the nominees: Best Traditional Cache Gods of Fairfax – Apollo (GC9VQ57) by Djglitterbunz Kindness Rocks TB Hotel (GC9RXFB) by HyperactiveGirl TB Hotel The Green Lodge (GC9K3ZN) by TheWanderesss … Continue reading →

Award Categories

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Important! The awards categories have changed. For the nominations and awards being given out in 2024 (for the 2023 caching year) please read the most current post. Each year NoVAGO honors some of the best caches that were placed in Northern Virginia. Nominations are an opportunity for you to recognize the efforts of your fellow NoVAGO cachers who have placed hides that you have enjoyed. This list is meant to help you think of some of the best geocaches you found last year. Best Traditional – The familiar green box on the map, which one made an impression on you? Best Mystery/Puzzle Cache – Whether the puzzle or the mystery was creative, innovative, obscure, devious, difficult, head-banging hard, unbelievably easy in hindsight – or all of those, which mystery or puzzle cache are you still talking about? Best Other (Multicache, Earthcache, Letterbox Hybrid, Wherigo, or Virtual) – These non-traditional cache … Continue reading →

2021 Cache Award Winners

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NoVAGO members gathered together at Mason District Park in Annandale for the NoVAGO Spring Picnic and Awards event. Thank you to everyone who helped to organize and make the day run smoothly. Here are the 2021 NoVAGO Cache Award Winners… CACHE OF THE YEAR (GC9C9C4) cschooner aka the Duckmeister: A tribute by kiisikwa GEOCACHER OF THE YEAR Thompsonkickers Best Theme or Series Name that Tune by MJBinski Best Kids Cache (GC8HV17) Hidden Woodland Critters Tree Sculpture by TheUnstealthy Monkey Most Outstanding Location or Scenery Tie: (GC95NT5) Water versus Rock: The Grudge Match by kiisikwa  and (GC9D8ZG) Ogling Eagles by Serrabou Most Creative Cache (GC9JPWK) Nightmare Before Cachemas: Sally by rlobecker Most Physically Challenging to Find (GC9F7BG) Nightmare Before Cachemas: Zero by Alice & the Rooster (ZippyFinn) Best Historical or Educational (GC99D4K) Бонус из кеша советской прото-геокешинговой лабора by Nothereeither Best Camouflage (GC9CBRG) Turning Point Suffragist Memorial by supertodd88 Best Multi-stage Cache (GC9C9C4) cschooner aka … Continue reading →

Nominees for NOVAGO’s 2021 Geocache Awards

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2021 NOVAGO Award Nominee Badge

Thanks very much to those of you who took the time to send in nominations! We had a lot of nominations this year and have been working hard to compile a list of the most popular for our members to vote on. While not all nominations were able to make the final cut, we were impressed with every suggestion that was sent in to us, making the decisions even harder.

Voting is scheduled to be open for ALL categories April 1-22, 2022.  Winners will be announced at our NoVAGO 2022 Spring Picnic and Awards Event on [Date TBD].

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2021 Cache Award Nominations are now OPEN

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Each year NoVAGO honors some of the best caches that were placed in Northern Virginia. Cache nominations and awards are a chance for you to recognize the efforts of fellow NoVAGO cachers who have placed hides that you have enjoyed.  Help recognize the great caches and the people who placed them by nominating your favorites for the 2021 NoVAGO Cache Awards! To nominate please head over to this NoVAGO’s 2021 Cache Awards Nominations Link. Categories are as follows: Cache of the Year Best Theme/Series Best Kids Cache Most Outstanding Location/Scenery Most Creative Cache Most Physically Challenging to Find Best Historical/Educational Cache Best Multi Stage Best Mystery/Puzzle Best Traditional Best Other (Letterbox Hybrid, Wherigo, Event) Best CITO Best Log Rookie of the Year (First find in 2021) Volunteer of the Year Cacher of the Year Best Earthcache Best Adventure Lab Best Photo posted in a log … Continue reading →