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 →

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 →

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 →

Looking for something to do this weekend? NoVAGO is supporting three events on Saturday, November 14 going on around the Northern Virginia and Maryland area. In no particular order, they are: The 2nd Annual Occoquan Bay Refuge CITO hosted by DePhogration Occoquan Bay National Wildlife Refuge, 10 am to 12 pm This is a great opportunity to give back to the community and the parks our Geocaches call home. DePhogration has organized many successful NoVAGO CITO events in the past, and this one should be no exception. Geocaching Symposium 2015 hosted by APLCachers The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, MD, 8 am to 1:30 pm NoVAGO has been asked to support the APL Geocaching Symposium, a day of education and community-building at APL. We’ll staff an informational table and be on hand to answer questions about Geocaching in Northern Virginia, and in general. “The Great Outdoors” Expo … Continue reading →

Looking for a fun way to spend this weekend? Join us for a summer weekend in the mountains! NoVAGO is returning to the beautiful Blue Ridge Environmental Center. Trails, lakes, mountains, food, friends, and goats. What else does your summer need? The weekend kicks off with our annual Picnic: GC5Y257. Come, meet caching friends old and new, and enjoy a delicious potluck lunch. There are almost 30 caches hidden within BREC’s nearly 900 acres, so after lunch you can enjoy time relaxing in Demory Field with friends or go caching while exploring the hiking trails though the woods, babbling streams, wildflower meadows and historic farmsteads. We will have our pavilion the entire afternoon as the fun doesn’t end at the conclusion of the picnic. BREC has been gracious enough to grant us exclusive use of their facilities through Sunday evening! Therefore, do stick around and join us for camping and … Continue reading →