Category Archives: Archived

Ravenquest Geocaching Presentation a wild success!

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Three NoVAGO cachers cphug, blrkt, and Buglady1 all met at Lake Fairfax Park to give a presentation on geocaching to 29 campers for Ravenquest. This camp aims at providing new discoveries to disadvantaged youth between 12 – 15 years of age. Five cache boxes were placed around the park filled with ingredients for Smores. The 3 volunteer cachers gave a presentation about geocaching and how the game works then took the groups out on a real cache hunt to find the boxes. A great time was had by all! Special thanks to our contact Chris Goldbecker who coordinated the early communication and set up support. Thanks also to TooWheelin & Rufnredy for passing this great volunteering opportunity to NoVAGO members. Pix will be posted when Buglady1 can figure out where to upload…stay tuned..

Swelter at the Shelter Event & Silent Auction

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The NoVAGO Swelter at the Shelter Summer Event is fast approaching, 20 July 08 is right around the corner and will be here before you know it. The event promises to be a “doozie” as all NoVAGO events are; plenty of caches to hunt, great food, super people, a raffle, and back by popular demand…our NoVAGO Annual Silent Auction. Please indicate your attendance and whatever potluck food item you may be bringing on the event page The Silent Auction catalog (it will be updated as additional item donations are received) can be found in the NoVAGO forums. The Silent Auction is the only method NoVAGO uses to generate funds to operate for the coming year. Check it out, there are already some great items on auction, and more will be added. … Continue reading →

REMINDER-NoVAGO Spring Fling – Redux Event!!!

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Just a gentle reminder that this year our (rescheduled) Spring event, the NoVAGO Spring Fling – Redux (GC1BHNG) is this coming Saturday, 10 May 08, at Algonkian Regional Park. Good food, good friends, and a good time!! Lots of caches in the local area, and I hear there are even some new ones. Please see the cache page for details, and if you have not signed up yet…it is not too late. See ya there!! … Continue reading →

NoVAGO 2008 April CITO Event and Picnic

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Come one Come all … to the NoVAGO 2008 CITO Event and Picnic Sunday, April 20th This is a combined event and sign up is through the CITO page at GC19V2A. It will be a great time and a chance to meet old friends and put a face with all those new names you have been seeing in the logs. Event Schedule 9:30am-10:00am arrival, log-in, and instructions 10:am-12:00 pm CITO! PRE-Picnic Caching! 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm pictures, and clean-up 12:30 pm-4:00 pm NoVAGO Spring Fling Picnic 2008 CITO Parking and Picnic Location Falcon Ridge Recreation Center 22025 Evergreen Mills Road Leesburg, VA 20175 For more details see the Cache page at GC19V2A … Continue reading →

Fairfax County Parks Guidelines

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The FCPA and NoVAGO are happy to announce the new guidelines for hiding caches in FCPA parks! On the FCPA geocaching page you will find a list of “blanket approval” parks as well as a web form for requesting permission for other FCPA parkland. We are very excited about this! It’s been a long time coming and everybody has been patient — but the wait is over! A huge THANK YOU to the NoVAGO members who worked on this project. For more information, visit http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/parks/geocaching … Continue reading →

NoVAGO 2007 Cache Awards

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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 →

NoVAGO Meet & Greet and Cryptophobia Support Group GC18KFF

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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.