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.
On Saturday February 3, 2018 thirty geocachers piled into a classroom for Awesnap’s Planning a Geocaching Road Trip Class. Our new President, platoaddict , want’s 2018 to be the year NoVAGO host’s more educational events. On the horizon there are plans to host classes on a variety of subjects including GSAK, puzzle solving, cachetur.no, earthcaching 101, and a basic cache page creation class. The Geocaching Road Trip class was held in Prince William County at the Chinn Library. Awesnap’s presentation covered the basics of distance caching, selecting target geocaches, routing, project.gc, and a quick introduction to cachetur.no. JPWAVE wrote in his log “I learned quite a bit more than I expected!! Yeah, I may do things in my own fashion but it’s really nice to see other options and new webtools which may be more efficient. EXCELLENT class!! Really looking forward to using these tips on our next road trip!” Ezio10 … Continue reading
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Congratulations to Pfenix for her winning photo titled “I’m a kiss-kiss tree with a kiss-kiss face, for spreading cheery-cheeries all over the place!” of a tree that she discovered while following The Ghost Deer Tale. We also offer a big thank you to everybody who participated in the December 2017 photo of the month contest.
Congrats to Serrabou for his winning photo of Roo titled “Up the trail a bit from 
Rick the “Lonewolf’s” Letterbox.“ We also offer a big thank you to everybody who participated in the November 2017 photo of the month contest.
Congrats to both hrothroc and DePhogration for their winning photos.
DePhogration wins for his photo titled “Fire & Water” and hrothroc’s win was for her photo of LPCBoy scaling the rock wall at Roo’s Runaway. We also offer a big thank you to everybody who participated in the October 2017 photo of the month contest.
With laptops, paper, and pens in hand it looked more like a university setting than a geocaching event. On October 15th geocachers gathered at Bull Run Regional Library and sat at the ready to learn the basics of geocaching puzzle solving. Since 2011 Two000miler has held 8 puzzle caching workshops throughout the Northern Virginia area. His class today touched on substitution, playfair, bacon, vigenère, and other cyphers as well as understanding where a puzzle creator can hide clues on a cache page. His most important advice he gives on solving puzzles is “Read the entire cache page, write down what you know, and look for patterns.” … Continue reading