Congratulations to platoaddict of her photo of America’s Oldest Humpback Bridge near Covington, Virginia. We also offer a big thank you to everybody who participated in the Jun 2018 photo of the month contest.
The District of Columbia Department of Parks and Recreation has implemented a new Geocaching program in which various facilities have been outfitted with geocaches along a Geocaching trail. The DPR hopes to educate geocachers about the eight Wards that make up the District of Columbia and their local histories, and to also highlight nearby parks and facilities throughout the eight Wards. Once you have logged all nine caches and affixed the unique stamp from each cache in your family passport, mail it in to receive your free EIGHT WARDS OF WASHINGTON, DC GEOTRAIL geocoin (only one geocoin per family while supplies last). … Continue reading
NoVAGO Members have been going above and beyond representing our hobby over the last few months. On June 9, 2018 Hooclass2002, Sassyinmyheart, and PlatoAddict along with others were honored for their participation in the Find Your Chesapeake Geotour Kickoff Event in Pennsylvania. Both Sassy (Pictured above) and Hooclass placed geocaches in Virginia for the geotour, while Plato was recognized for her contributions by staffing the FYC Table at Geowoodstock 2018 in Ohio. On May 6, 2018 DePhogration (Pictured above) and PlatoAddict were also both speakers at Geowoodstock 2018. Set on the Land of Oz stage at Coney Island, Plato gave a Cachetur.no demonstration and DePho gave his presentation “Geocaching & Avoiding the Bomb Squad.” On May 18th Platoaddict (Pictured above) was a guest on the GeoGearHeads Podcast episode #333 titled cachetour.no I. This episode was broadcast and recorded live on YOUTUBE. Podcasters ChrisOfTheNorthWest and DarrylW4 talked with her about Cachetur.no. … Continue reading
Congratulations to Hooclass2002 for his winning photo titled “DeFIREgration” of DePhogration prepping the grill at the May 6, 2018 NoVAGO Spring Picnic and Awards Event. We also offer a big thank you to everybody who participated in the May 2018 photo of the month contest.
The Find Your Chesapeake Geotour Kick Off Event has been published. The event will be held at the Zimmerman Center near Wrightsville, PA on June 9th, 2018 from 10am-Noon. NoVAGO members joined the MGS, the Chesapeake Conservancy, the National Park Service, and Susquehanna Heritage to place caches for this huge endeavor. This geotour will have over 60 caches within Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. A trackable geocoin will be awarded to the first 300 geocachers who find 20 geocaches on the trail, while supplies last. You will need to find 20 geocaches on the trail, gather the code word, to earn one of the 300 geocoins. For more information on the Find Your Chesapeake Geotour please visit the information thread in our NoVAGO forums. … Continue reading
Congratulations to Serrabou for his winning photo titled “Rhododendron Rock” of Roo visiting an earthcache on Mount Rogers. We also offer a big thank you to everybody who participated in the April 2018 photo of the month contest.
Congratulations to ZippyFinn for her winning photo titled “Hamming it up at MUSTCACHE!” of Roo at the final of MUSTCACHE! We also offer a big thank you to everybody who participated in the March 2018 photo of the month contest.
Congratulations to JPWAVE for his winning photo titled “Lady Bugs’ Picnic!” that he described as “Somewhere…in Southern MD, there’s a ladybug picnic happening right now!” We also offer a big thank you to everybody who participated in the February 2018 photo of the month contest.
March 10, 2018 – Over 24 geocachers descended upon the Thomas Jefferson Library to attend a class titled Let’s take a cachetur. Cachetur.no is the hottest new geocaching application around that lets you plan private trips, group trips and public trips that are open for all. Current NoVAGO President Platoaddict was the mastermind behind this class came prepared with slides and some cool cachetur.co swag for the attendees. While developing this class the developers of cachetur.no reached out to NoVAGO and offered to help in anyway they could. Attendees seemed very pleased with the information from the class. “I’m sure I would not have tackled this resource without your instruction.” said LMNLanchot “Now it’s time to play around and see if I can work it alone.” Zgrav had this to say about the class “Thanks to the CO for a solid presentation with a lot of hands-on assistance and very useful … Continue reading
Congratulations to Nothereeiether for his winning photo titled “Finding more than caches!” of HooClass2002 and Cache Clown 76 finding a special made tree just for them while on The Beaver Trail. We also offer a big thank you to everybody who participated in the January 2018 photo of the month contest.