  The NO$\nu$A collaboration has constructed a 14,000 ton, fine-grained, low-Z,
total absorption tracking calorimeter at an off-axis angle to an upgraded NuMI
neutrino beam. This detector, with its excellent granularity and energy
resolution and relatively low-energy neutrino thresholds, was designed to
observe electron neutrino appearance in a muon neutrino beam, but it also has
unique capabilities suitable for more exotic efforts. In fact, if sufficient
cosmic ray background rejection can be demonstrated, NO$\nu$A will be capable
of a competitive indirect dark matter search for low-mass Weakly-Interacting
Massive Particles (WIMPs). The cosmic ray muon rate at the NO$\nu$A far
detector is approximately 100 kHz and provides the primary challenge for
triggering and optimizing such a search analysis. The status of the NO$\nu$A
upward-going muon trigger and a first look at the triggered sample is
presented.
