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
Congrats to Serrabou for his winning photo titled “Yesssss? Can I help you?” of a snake that he encountered at M.I.L.L. Race: Barracks. We also offer a big thank you to everybody who participated in the September 2017 photo of the month contest.
NoVAGO Puzzle Cache Workshop Sunday, October 15, 2017 (1:00-4:00 p.m.) Bull Run Regional Library 8051 Ashton Avenue Manassas, VA 20109 Having trouble with puzzle caches? There are a lot of them out there. These pesky little devils seem to get filed in one of two places by most cachers. There are them that loves ’em and them that hates ’em. If you are in the latter category (or in the former and just want to practice), this may be the event for you. This event will be geared toward beginning puzzlers. There will be a session later in the year geared toward more advanced stuff, but for today we want to get folks started. We welcome more advanced folks but don’t want you to be bored. … Continue reading
Congrats to Mrs. Seadog for her winning photo “Lonely Cacher” and a special “thank you” to Mr. Seadog for braving the elements to make this photo happen. We also offer a big thank you to everybody who participated in the August 2017 photo of the month contest.