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NoVAGO’s Spring Event, Coming May 7th!
Mark your calendars, NoVAGO is heading to Sky Meadows State Park on Saturday, May 7 for the Spring Event. More details to follow but plan to come join us for a day of fun in the sun, caching and announcement of the winners of the 2015 NoVAGO Cache Awards (don’t forget to put in your votes!) … Continue reading
Freezin’ for a Reason! Winter CITO
Come on out to help us kickoff NoVAGO’s new Quarterly CITO initiative! We’ll be gathering at Mason Neck State Park to help them get a jump start on clearing out the trash that has washed up and gotten snagged along the shoreline from the many winter storms this year. We look forward to working with the Department of Conservation and Recreation and the Virginia State Parks. Who: All Geocachers* What: NoVAGO 2016 Winter CITO When: Saturday, February 27, 2016 (12:00-3:00 p.m.) Where: Mason Neck State Park (Lorton, VA) 7301 Highpoint Rd, Lorton, VA 22079 Parking is free for all CITO participants on the day of the event, just tell the ranger at the entrance. … Continue reading
2015 Awards Nomination Open
What were your favorite caches of 2015? This is your chance to nominate those cache that took you on amazing adventures to amazing places! Which were amazingly creative or which drove you mad with the challenge? Did you see something new and unique or one that was extremely well executed? Does one answer the question, which is your favorite cache? Help recognize the great caches and the people who placed them by nominating your favorites for the 2015 NoVAGO Cache Awards! Every year, the NoVAGO community nominates and selects the best caches hidden in the previous calendar year. It’s an opportunity for area cachers to help recognize those that make caching in Northern Virginia a great experience and also a terrific way to highlight caches worth making a detour for. You can find information on the award categories and eligible caches in this forum thread: NoVAGO’s 2015 Cache Awards Nominations. … Continue reading
2015: A Year in Review
We wanted to take the opportunity to recognize all the accomplishments of NoVAGO and its members from the past year, as well as all of the volunteers, without whose help this successful and fun caching year in NoVAGO would not have been the same. If anything is missing, please let us know. 2015 Cache Awards Headed South for the Winter (event) with workshops “NoVAGO’s Picnic & Paddling at Pohick Bay” Spring Event GeoWoodstock XIII “Summer at the Blue Ridge” Summer Event “Wait Until Dark (VA Edition)” Night Caching Event Blue Ridge Center CITO Appalachian Trail Conservancy 2015 Biennial Meeting “Hauntingly Familiar” Fall Picnic and Auction “HtGSC #0: Cachemas Eve” Cachemas Event “How the Grinch Stole Cachemas” NoVAGO Annual Series “The Great Outdoors” Expo with the Boy Scouts of America Geocaching Symposium 2015 (supporting the APL Cachers) Individuals who hosted CITOs and Invasive Plant Pulls and helped give back to the … Continue reading
Cans, Caches and Coats – A NoVAGO Winter Event
Come out and join NoVAGO at our Winter Event (GC69PHC) on Saturday, February 20th from 9:30am to 12:00pm at the Veteran’s Memorial Park Community Center, 14300 Veteran’s Drive, Woodbridge, VA 22191. In addition to providing some breakfast nibbles, we’re also doing a brunch potluck (please post what you plan to bring in your “will attend” log). We will have two short presentations, one by DePhogration on cache containers and one by NutmegBrownie on how easy it is to host a CITO! At this year’s NoVAGO Winter Event we are holding a canned food and coat drive to help support a local charity. This winter’s featured charity is The StreetLight, a nondenominational nonprofit organization who’s mission is to “build strong community by improving the quality of life for impoverished men, women, and children, including the ‘chronically homeless’ in Prince William County and surrounding areas of Northern Virginia.” Donations are purely voluntary and … Continue reading
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2015 Photo of the Month Winners
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President’s Welcome
Welcome to 2016! I hope everyone had a chance to earn the souvenir as a great welcome to the New Year. Thank you for all the support as we embark on a new adventure. I’m looking forward to an exciting year of caching with my fellow board members, Christina (NutmegBrownie), Mike (CacheClown76), Josh (Hooclass2002) and Chris (Awesnap). If you have the time, we’d love to see you at the Thanks! Event tomorrow evening (January 5) where we will be saying thanks to last year’s officers and volunteers. This is also a great opportunity to meet some of the new board members as several of them will be there as well. And mark your calendars for the morning of February 20 for the Winter Event, we’ll get the cache page published soon with more information. We look forward to introducing quarterly CITOs this year as well as some NoVAGO sponsored workshops. We … Continue reading
January 2016 Member Spotlight: Sassyinmyheart
1. Tell us about your caching name. Back in 11th grade, I had to create my first email for Finance class. Sassy was my first dog and her companionship meant a lot to me and she had passed by then, so I gave my email sassyinmyheart. It’s cute because cachers think I’m sassy so it just fits I suppose 2. How were you introduced to Geocaching and what was the first cache you found? My first job, which I’ve been at 10 years now, is the Porter Library (CRRL Branch) and my supervisor asked me to shelf read because there were NO patrons in the building and we were caught up on book drop. I went out to the 600s and started. I came upon a strange looking book, that when I opened it, was hollow. I was so confused. I read the blurb on the cover, and wondered if … Continue reading
Welcome to the 2016 Core!
Happy New Year Everyone! With a new year, comes a new NoVAGO Core! Thanks to the following members for stepping up to help lead NoVAGO in 2016: Katie – K8Ydd – President Christina – NutmegBrownie – Vice President Mike – CaheClown76 – Secretary Josh – Hooclass2002 – Treasurer Chris – Awesnap – Public Relations Join us in welcoming them here on the forums. Also please come out this Tuesday, January 5th for NoVAGO’s annual Thanks! event. It’s a great chance to socialize, say THANKS to 2015 and WELCOME to 2016! … Continue reading