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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.
On August 21, 2017 the first NoVAGO Spotlight Question was been published in the forums. Last month NoVAGO sent out an email of 5 questions to about 50 of its members old and new on 5 different topics of geocaching. In the email it said “I am asking 5 questions and just answer with a paragraph, a few sentences, or not at all. You can be funny (but honest), serious, scary, or whatever. Then I will pick one question and share everyone’s answers to it in the forums.” These “rapid quick fire questions” ranged from scary stories, to recent fantastic caches found, and police encounters while out geocaching. Hopes were that we would here from both members old and new. Some of our members were spotlighted almost a decade ago, so this was great way to get their voices and wisdom back into the forums in a fun way. This month’s … Continue reading
Congrats to Awesnap for his photo “♫ ♬Nanos in the rain, just logging Nanos in the rain, what a hap, happy feeling… ♬♫” taken as the drizzle started pouring down on Schwandt at SNAP!!!-land 059 (GC507W8). We also offer a big thank you to everybody who participated in the July 2017 photo of the month contest.