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NoVAGO OLYMPIAD2020

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Citius – Altius – Fortius NoVAGO is pleased to announce that a new series will begin on October 24th. 15 hiders will publish Olympic caches and cachers will be able to earn a medal for their country in several ways. But first, you need a country! Country bibs (Greece / South Korea / Jamaica) will be distributed at the NoVAGO Fall Event on October 24th (https://coord.info/GC8JZYQ) with some satellite distribution points prior for those who can’t or don’t want to attend that event. The first satellite distribution can be found here: https://coord.info/GC90T87 The second satellite distribution can be found here: https://coord.info/GC9057H Geocaching HQ has also agreed to judge photos taken at each cache, but you gotta have a bib to win! More details as we approach the Opening Ceremony! … Continue reading →

2019 Photo of the Month Contest & Winners

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January 2019 – Serrabou Wins! [totalpoll id=”3010″ fragment=”results”] February 2019 – Mrs Seadog Wins! [totalpoll id=”3006″ fragment=”results”] March 2019 – DePhogration and ZippyFinn Win! [totalpoll id=”3276″ fragment=”results”] April 2019 – DePhogration Wins! [totalpoll id=”3745″] May 2019 – topazfae Wins! [totalpoll id=”3873″] June 2019: 4-way Tie! freddiecrs / xBWx / mcgmarauders / rlobecker [totalpoll id=”3879″] July 2019: ZippyFinn Wins! [totalpoll id=”3901″] October 2019: seadog129 Wins! You woke me up! seadog129 October 2019 [totalpoll id=”3923″] November 2019: ZippyFinn Wins! Shenandoah Arc ZippyFinn [totalpoll id=”3983″] December 2019 Bug-eyed Cwilly [totalpoll id=”4006″] … Continue reading →

Caching the Capital Region and Beyond Adventure Lab

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Since 2006 the Northern Virginia Geocaching Organization has had “Caching the Capital Region and Beyond” in our crest. NoVAGO was recently awarded 10 new Adventure Labs and has opted to place them around the District of Columbia. With this latest Adventure Lab we strive to take cachers into the District to show off a few things they may have missed during past visits. During a test run of these we found that grabbing most of these easily done by those red DC Bikeshare bicycles.  None of these 10 labs require admission fees, security check points, or to go inside any buildings.  Only three of these are not available 24/7 and you can find those posted hours on the lab pages. NoVAGO want’s our community to cache with confidence and has permission for all virtual placements. On 11JUL19 the National Mall and Memorial Parks supervisors noted: “As long as nothing is … Continue reading →

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March 2019 Photo of the Month Winners

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Its a TIE! Congratulations to both Zippy Finn for her photo titled “Puddles” and DePhogration for his entry titled “Iced Over.”

Introducing “NoVAGO gets Gung Ho at National Museum of the USMC” Adventure Lab

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NoVAGO and The National Museum of the Marine Corps invites you to explore roughly 200 years of USMC history by teaming up and creating the new Adventure Lab When Groundspeak released a limited number of Geocaching Adventure Lab credits to various geocaching organizations around the world NoVAGO was lucky enough to have been chosen. These new adventures are similar to the “lab caches” available at megas but will be in place for a much longer time, perhaps even permanently. The National Museum of the Marine Corps is a lasting tribute to U.S. Marines–past, present, and future.  You can only access the museum during normal open hours and admission is free. Also if you locate and correctly answer all 10 questions you will also receive coordinates for the mystery cache “Oorah! USMC Adventure Lab BONUS!” which is placed nearby in a Prince William County Park with permission. … Continue reading →

Upgrade available for cachetur.no

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Introducing cache-turminator.no Cachetur.no is a powerful trip-routing tool that has taken off in the caching world. However once all those caches are loaded up the challenge can be having enough time to stop and find them. Problem solved: announcing cache-turminator.no! With cache-turminator, load up all the caches on your route as usual, and then hop in the car. Cache-turminator will *automatically* log caches for you as you drive by! Using a comprehensive data catalog of cache details gleaned from a platoon of log-reading web robots, an advanced log-writing algorithm will piece together and post clever no-signature found-it logs at a pace mere humans only dream of. Example logs: “got the bison in the tree, forgot a pen, tftc”; “log too wet to write on”; “saw it but couldn’t reach it”. The cache-turminator database also includes pictures of the cache containers so you have the option to post “photo” logs. How … Continue reading →