This is a CHALLENGE Cache. The Cache IS at the Posted Coordinates but you MUST complete the challenge before logging a find.
This is a continuation of the yearly series of challenge caches for NOVAGO's Best Caches - for 2017 - this cache is along Fairfax County's Cross County Trail.
To log this cache, you must find the specified number of caches with more than 5 Favorite Points and Placed in 2017 in the NOVA area.
Since 2006, the Northern Virginia Geocaching Organization (NoVAGO) has sought nominations for the outstanding caches placed in the previous year. Then NoVAGO has placed a challenge or bonus cache to encourage area cachers to find those nominated caches. This year's cache is along Fairfax County's Cross County Trail (CCT).
(In years' past, the bonus cache was tied directly to nominations for the NoVAGO Annual Cache Awards; this has changed this year so please read the details below.)
To qualify for this challenge you need to find at least 25 caches that satisfy these criteria:
1) Was placed in 2017;
2) Resides in one of the counties/towns associated with Northern Virginia (see list below);
3) Has garnered 5 or more Favorite Points.
Here is a challenge checker to help you quickly determine if you qualify.
If you would like to learn more about this process, you are welcome to visit the NoVAGO awards forum post describing the annual awards.
The cache IS at the listed coordinates.
If you are in need of some caches to help you qualify, here is the list of NoVAGO's Best of 2017:
If you are just getting started in caching, this is a great list of caches with which to start (watch out for those tougher caches).
Let us know how many you have done in your log and we hope you enjoy them all. Click here and find out.
Nominated Caches:
Best Theme/Series (three or more caches in a series or that share a common theme)
End of the Line by Awesnap (6 caches)
M.I.L.L. Race by Serrabou (5 caches)
CCT Challenge Caches by vpdj (48 caches)
Frog and Toad by CWillyPngn (4 caches)
TRIBUTES17 : Dork-o-Naut by ZippyFinn (3 caches)
Best Kids Cache
Toad's Missing Buttons by CWillyPngn
Dear Toad by CWillyPngn
Barrett Branch Library Wherigo Adventure by Awesnap
Pohick Loop Interpretive Trail by Cache Clown 76
Insectopia by Awesnap
Most Outstanding Location/Scenery
The Ghost Deer Tale by freddiecrs
Beast of Goose Creek? by hrothroc
TRIBUTES17 - Be the Reediologist by hooclass2002
Uncharted Island Inhabitant by Lostone_65
On Beyond Ridiculous by cachedude2006
Most Creative Cache
Blue Line by Awesnap
M.I.L.L. Race: Spaceship by Serrabou
Toad's Missing Buttons by CWillyPngn
The Ghost Deer Tale by freddiecrs
The Day The World Went Away by Pengie123
Wilton Hill by SP4FUN
Dear Toad by CWillyPngn
Most Physically Challenging to Find
M.I.L.L. Race: Spaceship by Serrabou
M.I.L.L. Race: Barracks by Serrabou
TRIBUTES17: D3 : Supreme Dork of All Time & Space by ZippyFinn
The Ghost Deer Tale by freddiecrs
Just Hanging Around by Chamma
Best Historical/Educational Cache
Barrett Branch Library Wherigo Adventure by Awesnap
Bush Hill by SP4FUN
Traveling Back in Time the Safeway by Ezio10
Boundary Stone of the District of Columbia by Grove at Arlington
TRIBUTES17 - ALLH - Broyhill Park by two000miler
Ghost Lake (FSf#1) by rlobecker
Best Camouflage
Wilton Hill by SP4FUN
Churchill Road Park III by M&R
The Day The World Went Away by Pengie123
Abandoned Hooes Road (FSf #2) by rlobecker
Inside the Outside by cacheus1a23
TMNT ROCKS! by nycjoyce & Taparent
Best Multi-Stage Cache
The Ghost Deer Tale by freddiecrs
Exhumed by lawnrescue911
Pohick Loop Interpretive Trail by Cache Clown 76
TRIBUTES17 - Be the Reediologist by hooclass2002
TRIBUTES17: The Royal Order of the Holy Wherigos by Ezio10
Best Mystery/Puzzle Cache
End of the Line by Awesnap
M.I.L.L. Race: Spaceship by Serrabou
TRIBUTES17: D3 : Supreme Dork of All Time & Space by ZippyFinn
Dear Toad by CWillyPngn
TMNT ROCKS! by nycjoyce & Taparent
Toad's Missing Buttons by CWillyPngn
Best Traditional
Just Hanging Around by Chamma
Books & Bikes by PolarTB
Pumpkin King's Cliff by sassyinmyheart
Cache to Eagle, NCAC Old Dominion: Trustworthy by TrexM8s
Abandoned Hooes Road (FSf #2) by rlobecker
Is this Wise?.... by ThompsonKickers
Best Letterbox Hybrid
Webs to the Face (or Eat a Spider) by Awesnap
M.I.L.L. Race: Ignition Sequence by Serrabou
Wilton Hill by SP4FUN
Blue Line by Awesnap
TRIBUTES17 - Roo's Runaway by Nothereeither
Best Other (Earthcache, Whereigo, Event)
M.I.L.L. Race Communications Array by Serrabou
Barrett Branch Library Wherigo Adventure by Awesnap
Meow Mix by Cache Clown 76
The Dog Days of August by seadog129
Ice Ice Baby! by Cache Clown 76
Best CITO (Cache In, Trash Out)
Occoquan Elementary CITO III by Awesnap
4th Annual Occoquan Bay Refuge CITO by DePhogration
Cache Mob trails down the CCT 1/? - hike plus CITO by vpdj
John Jenkins Park (Hillendale Park) by Awesnap
Mayfield Fort CITO III by Awesnap
Cache of the Year
TRIBUTES17: D3 : Supreme Dork of All Time & Space by ZippyFinn
M.I.L.L. Race: Spaceship by Serrabou
The Ghost Deer Tale by freddiecrs
End of the Line by Awesnap
Frog and Toad Are Friends by CWillyPngn
Best Theme/Series
End of the Line by Awesnap (6 caches)
M.I.L.L. Race by Serrabou (5 caches)
CCT Challenge Caches by vpdj (48 caches)
Frog and Toad by CWillyPngn (4 caches)
TRIBUTES17 : Dork-o-Naut by ZippyFinn (3 caches)
Northern Virginia is defined as: Alexandria (city), Arlington (county), Clarke (county), Fairfax (county), Fairfax (city), Falls Church (city), Fauquier (county), Frederick (county), Loudoun (county), Manassas (city), Manassas Park (city), Prince William (county), Stafford (county), Warren (county), Winchester (city)
This cache was placed with permission from the Fairfax County Park Authority.