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Come Give Thanks and Celebrate 12 years of NoVAGO!

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NoVAGO turns 12 this year and to celebrate we will be kicking off the year with our traditional Thanks Event! The first official NoVAGO event was hosted on January 14, 2007, so this event is an early birthday party for our organization as well. Once again we are back at Santini’s New York Style Deli in Chantilly so please join us.  Thank all of the amazing volunteers who helped make geocaching in Northern Virginia more fun in 2018 and to welcome in the 2019 volunteers. Thanks! January 13, 2018 RESCHEDULE DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Santini’s New York Style Deli 3980 Corsair Ct Chantilly, VA 20151 … Continue reading →

Join NoVAGO for a Screening of the 2018 Geocaching Film Festival GIFFS

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This year NoVAGO is holding it’s Geocaching Film Festival event in Manassas, VA.  Join us at the Bull Run Public Library as we watch this years round of geocaching films.  This year filmmakers were asked to film a great story about the game we love and send it to us. The deadline for film submissions has now passed and Geocaching HQ is reviewing and judging films during the month of August.  Folks who attend earn the 2018 GIFF Souvenir! NoVAGO GIFF Thursday Thursday, November 8, 2018 @ 6:45 p.m.  Bull Run Regional Library 8051 Ashton Ave Manassas, VA 20109 … Continue reading →

NoVAGO’s 4th Annual Hauntingly Familiar Fall Event

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Summer has passed and fall is on the way. Come and help us celebrate the turning of the seasons by attending NoVAGO’s last major event of 2018. Be sure to log your “will-attend” as early as possible to ensure that we have enough food for the masses.  Attendees are encouraged to bring your favorite pot luck dish, all we ask is that you list what you are bringing in your “will attend” log so that others won’t bring in a similar dish.  As with all of our picnics NoVAGO will be supplying the charcoal, hamburgers, hot dogs, plates, and condiments. Saturday, October 27, 2018 (11:00 am – 3 pm) Nottoway Park 9601 Courthouse Rd Vienna, VA 22181 The silent auction will be going on throughout the event, so come and bid on the many cool items that will be up for auction! Our annual auction is NoVAGO’s main source of … Continue reading →

The Summer CITO is Coming!

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Join us July 7, 2018 for NoVAGO’s Winter CITO as we help clean up the Neabsco Creek area at Cloverdale Park. Park Ranger Eric Wysocki hand picked this CITO location for us to clean up, as the Prince William Park Authority continues to be a great partner with NoVAGO. NoVAGO 2018 Summer CITO Saturday, July 7, 2018 9:00 a.m. Cloverdale Park 15150 Cloverdale Rd Dale City, VA 22193 … Continue reading →

Join Us at Our NoVAGO Annual Spring Picnic and 2017 NoVAGO Geocache Awards Event

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On May 6, 2018 NoVAGO invites to you lend a hand, picnic with friends, and celebrate the 2017 NoVAGO Cache Awards in Arlington! At 9 a.m. we will kick off the day with a CITO at Glencarlyn Park where we will be cleaning up portion of trails along Four Mile Run in Arlington.  Located just over a mile from our picnic shelter this CITO is a nice walk or a quick bike ride up a paved path from our picnic location. Trash bags will be provided at the clean up.  To log your “will Attend” or to find out more information check out the geocache page at THIS LINK. Soon after at 11:30 a.m. head south on the Four Mile Run trail to Barcroft Park for our annual Spring Picnic.  We will be at the only shelter in the park just feet of the paved trail.  Just follow your nose … Continue reading →

NoVAGO Area Events for Spring CITO Season

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Once again Earth Day is almost upon us and one of the great ways geocachers can give back to the community is by hosting CITO events.  Groundspeak has announced April 21-29, 2018 as the dates to earn a virtual souvenir on your profile pages if you host or attend CITO an event during this time. Here is the list so far of Souvenir CITOs in the NoVA area: (See cache pages for more details!) Saturday, April 21st 3rd Annual Occoquan River Cleanup – Paddle CITO! Brentsville, VA Hosted by:  Hooclass2002 Starts at 9am Sunday, April 22nd NoVAGO Veteran’s Park CITO Woodbridge, VA Hosted by: DePhogration Starts at 1 pm Friday, April 27th Occoquan Elementary CITO IV Woodbridge, VA Hosted by: Awesnap Starts at 7:30 pm Saturday, April 28th Fred Lynn Middle School CITO Woodbridge, VA Hosted by: Awesnap Starts at 9 am Sunday, April 29th NoVAGO 2018 Spring CITO Woodbridge, VA Hosted by: NoVAGO Starts at 9 … Continue reading →

Northern Virginia Has 17 Events Dropped On the Area for the 2018 Planetary Pursuit Promotion

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Northern Virginia has gone “event crazy” for the upcoming Groundspeak promotion “Planetary Pursuit.” Geocaching’s Official Blog describes this promotion as “The year is 2650. You are invited to join the Geocaching Explorers Club and be among the first geocachers to visit every planet in our solar system, earning souvenirs along the way. Find different geocache types to individually collect points on the Friend League between March 19 and April 8 and earn up to 10 new souvenirs to become an Official Space Explorer.” Attention space explorers! To give geocachers more time to complete their missions, Planetary Pursuit has been extended for an additional week. Please log all your finds before Monday, April 16! You cane score Points as follows: Action Point value Log a Found it on any geocache (Traditional, Virtual, Webcam, Wherigo) 5 Log a Found it on a Multi-Cache or Letterbox Hybrid 10 Log a Found it on a Mystery Cache or EarthCache 15 Log a Found it on a … Continue reading →

NoVAGO’s Winter CITO is Upon Us

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Join us February 25th, 2018 for NoVAGO’s Winter CITO as we help clean up the area around the Jerome “Buddie” Ford Nature Center.   This City of Alexandria nature center is located on a 50-acre park nestled along the Holmes Run Stream.  This center provides year-round programs, interactive exhibits, as well as taking care of over 30 live animals. This event is being organized in coordination with Nature Center staff, and is designed to assist them in keeping this area clean and beautiful. NoVAGO Winter CITO at Jerome “Buddie” Ford Nature Center Sunday, February 25, 2018 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Jerome Ford Nature Center 5750 Sanger Avenue Alexandria, VA 22311 … Continue reading →

First Class of 2018 Kicks Off NoVAGO’s New Direction of Hosting Educational Events

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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 →

Australia Day Events in Northern Virginia

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To celebrate Australia Day Groundspeak has created the Where in the world is Signal the Frog®? Australia!.  You can earn a Australia Day 2018 souvenir by hosting or attending an event on Friday, January 26 through Sunday, January 28, 2018.  A few members of our local geocaching community jumped at the the chance to host a Australia Day event!  So hop on over to one of them, hang out with fellow geocachers, and earn your Australia Day 2018 souvenir. Friday, January 26, 2018 Australia Day! 5:30 pm in Haymarket Hosted by Gaiterman Saturday, January 27, 2018 Australia Day 2018 5 pm in Sterling Hosted by Effstop Bunch of Guys Down Under – Australia Day 6 pm in Stafford Hosted by Roadtrip Sunday, January 28, 2018 Australia Day (1/28/2018) 1 pm in Dumfries Hosted by Cache Clown 76 Australia Day 2018 5:30 pm in Arlington Hosted by PlatoAddict [poll id=”3″] … Continue reading →