Freezing Saddles 2021 – Daily Photo Scavenger Hunt

[drevil]

EDIT 3/23/21 – FINAL RESULTS POST: http://bikearlingtonforum.com/showthread.php?18102-Freezing-Saddles-2021-Daily-Photo-Scavenger-Hunt&p=210265#post210265
EDIT 3/17/21 – FINAL WEEK POST HERE: http://bikearlingtonforum.com/showthread.php?18102-Freezing-Saddles-2021-Daily-Photo-Scavenger-Hunt&p=209861#post209861

I love taking photos, and having a goal usually ups the fun factor, so I’m doing a daily photo scavenger hunt.

Every night, I’ll post something you have to take a picture of the next day (along with the date). I’ll try my best to post before midnight.

It might be an object (a stop sign), a theme (something blue), specific (e.g., a bike laying on the ground), vague (e.g., confusion), a mish-mash of those, or none of those.

Rules:

1. Obvs, you should be a participant in Freezing Saddles ’21
2. It has to be on a bike ride on the day it was requested
3. It has to be posted on the day for which it was requested, i.e., 12:01 AM EST to 11:59 PM EST for the day it was requested. Sorry, I won’t count ones that aren’t posted for the day it was requested. That’s part of the challenge
4. The reason I say “for the day it is requested” is because I might do requests a few days ahead of time, but don’t take and/or post the pic until that day comes.
5. It has to be posted here on the forum in this thread
6. There should be text either in the title or in the post with the date and the found object/theme. Another option is to “Reply With Quote” the post with the request, i.e., simply click that button on the bottom right of my request so it is quoted above your picture
7. Description, short backstory or location are optional (but nice). That said, if your pic is abstract or not obviously relatable to my request, please explain (e.g., I ask for “happiness”, and you post a pic of a tennis ball you found on a ride, please explain how that tennis ball = happiness)
8. It has to be a picture you took, so if you’re in it, it either has to be a selfie or done with a self-timer
9. Only one pic/day. Please don’t pad by adding more than one pic/day
10. It has to be a picture, not a video
11. Let’s stick to things you find out there during your ride, and not things that you bring or make yourself (unless otherwise specified). Example 1: if I say find “2021”, don’t scratch it into dirt. Example 2: if I say find a flower, don’t bring a flower with you on your ride and take a pic of that. This kinda takes the fun out of looking for things, which is the whole point. (Rule added on 1/2/21)
12. Unless specified otherwise, your bike does not have to be in the photo. (Rule amended on 1/4/21)
13. Found item needs to be clear and discernible (or legible if text) in the picture. If you are using Tapatalk and are having trouble posting pics that are large enough, let us know and I/we can try to help you with it. (Rule added on 1/3/21)
14. Filters are OK, but no obvious/blatant photoshopping… not that I know anything about such things

Photoshop? by bikecentric, on Flickr

Scoring: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kgsAzaLIXN-IJMjscyNnQTNvWEp__VzgGBSkJDYrTfs/edit?usp=sharing

1. If you follow all the rules above, it’s 1 point/picture. I’ll like your pic if I have added the point to the tally sheet.
2. If I feel like you haven’t met all the rules, I’ll give you .25 points for the effort (Added on 1/11/21)
3. I’ll keep a tally with your forum name. I may reach out to you via the forum’s messaging, or ask you to reach out to me in a post in this thread.
4. EDIT ON 3/17/21: THIS WILL NOT HAPPEN ANYMORE -> At the end of FS, every like in each of your pic posts = +1 point. I’ll add these up at the end
   So for example, your pic has met all the conditions at the top, and has 3 likes. That will add 4 points (1 for the pic +3 for the likes) to your pot.

Notes:

1. Prizes TBD
2. Contest starts 1/1/21 and goes until the last day of FS ’21
3. Some of these will be hard. Fret not, some will be easy, so skip those days that are too difficult
4. Don’t ever ever ever ever do anything that can put you in danger or will result in hurting yourself. I promise I won’t ask for any pics of you riding on the Beltway
5. I might post pics, but mine don’t count in the contest

EDIT 3/17/21 -SEE FINAL WEEK POST HERE: http://bikearlingtonforum.com/showthread.php?18102-Freezing-Saddles-2021-Daily-Photo-Scavenger-Hunt&p=209861#post209861

Topic

[Nadine]

2/12/21 – ox or other bovine

Got the idea from Boomer, whose pic reminded me I’d seen something like it at Ted’s Montana Grill.

I went right by Crystal City Waterpark to get there. Maybe this summer we’ll have Fridays at the Fountain there again! [emoji3531]

[drevil]

2/13/21 – Diner

On February 13, 1960, the first of the Nashville Sit-ins occurred to non-violently protest segregation in the South. It eventually lead to six downtown stores opening their lunch counters to black customers for the first time.

On your ride, find a diner – preferably one you like – take a snapshot of it and post it here in the forum. For an extra bonus point, have both the word “Diner” and at least part of your bike in it.

Please be careful out there if it gets slippery!

Happy hunting!

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[rumipumi]

2/12 OX

RedbOX. Yes — i did it again. Maybe i can find one with the classic movie “Diner” tomorrow?

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[Mtansill]

@drevil 207649 wrote:

2/12/21 – Ox

I really looked very hard to find an ox, or a photo or an ox, or a real cow, or an oxygen tank, or.. or.. then I remembered that I lived near a street called Fox.
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[consularrider]

@drevil 207649 wrote:

2/12/21 – Ox

In 2021, the Chinese Zodiac sign is the Ox, and it begins on February 12.

On your ride, find the likeness of an ox (or any bovine) or the letter combo “ox” out in the wild. If you are seeking the letters “ox”, they just have to be beside each other in that order, but they can be within another word.

Happy hunting!

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Rode through Lenox Hill.

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[LhasaCM]

2/12 – Ox (or Bovine)

Since I had a mental short circuit and didn’t think to go by the Union Market vendor that sells ox tails (among other things) until I was almost home…here’s a picture of a Galludet Bison logo. Since bison are bovine…

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[Boomer Cycles]

@josh 207714 wrote:

I dunno, native American persuasion sounds more like a bison. I think buffalo are more Old World ��

Your nomenclature is more precise for the large, even-hoofed (or “toed”) ungulates of the genus Bovinae endemic to North America, commonly referred to as the American buffalo or simply “buffalo” … according to the reference cited.

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[CaseyKane50]

@Kbikeva 207711 wrote:

Doesn’t it constantly amaze you what you see once you’re directed to look for something? Who would have ever noticed that before? Nice find!

Yes, my head seems to be on a swivel looking for today’s challenge. This has been a fun game and has definitely added miles to my rides.

[DCAKen]

2/11/21 – Ox

After striking out in Chinatown, where there was surprising no Year of the Ox iconography, I settled for another animal

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[Nadine]

@josh 207661 wrote:

I’m not sure why I felt like I should be in this photo, but the heart wants what it wants. Found a rock, moved it, spent too long aiming/balancing my phone, triggered the timer, and hustled up the icy/snowy steps to the bull.
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This whole statue/monument is in the Eakins Oval in front of the Art Museum.

Your pic is awesome. Also I’m totally stealing the line “the heart wants what it wants” to use at home, for when Alan expects me to be logical [emoji38]

Also here’s a picture of my homemade pizza. I’m never up for making pizza on a day when I’m doing a real ride -but after pizza day I wanted some, so I made it yesterday. Forgot to take a pix when it was just out of the oven, but here are tonight’s leftovers.

I make it on a cookie sheet. I woulda said I do that because it’s more pizza that way – but actually it’s exactly the way my father made pizza, so I’m probably programmed to make it that way. [emoji57]

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[Steve O]

@Mtansill 207734 wrote:

I really looked very hard to find an ox, or a photo or an ox, or a real cow, or an oxygen tank, or.. or.. then I remembered that I lived near a street called Fox.

Since the ox was hard to find, you could have settled for a zebu or a nilgai or a tamaraw or a gaur.

Or a banteng.

[Kbikeva]

@DCAKen 207739 wrote:

2/11/21 – Ox

After striking out in Chinatown, where there was surprising no Year of the Ox iconography, I settled for another animal

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Like yesterday’s theater sadness, I found today’s dearth of celebrational decorations for Lunar New Year to be very sad. We rode past more than one Chinese food place – and nothing. I LOVE doing these searches, but they’re highlighting what we’re missing due to the darn virus!

[cvcalhoun]

2/11/21 – Ox or other bovine

So I Googled “Lamborghini Bethesda” and it came up with Euro Motorcars–but they sell Mercedes, not Lamborghini. I checked their lot to see whether anyone coming to look for a Mercedes was driving a Lamborghini. There were Lexuses and BMWs, but no Lamborghinis.

WowCow was permanently closed. And the other ice cream shops in the area had pictures of ice cream, not cows.

I thought of Chick-fil-A. But the local one is in a mall, and I didn’t want to walk through a mall.

I finally decided I’d have to just choose between Matchbox and Equinox, and took pictures of both. And then on my way home, I saw All Fired Up, which is a DIY ceramics place. I saw lots of other animals there. And then checking further, I found this cutie:

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And of course, after finding this, I saw a barber shop on my way home with a bunch of stuffed animals, including a goat, wearing masks. But I wasn’t 100% sure whether a goat was considered bovine, and besides, I liked this one.

[accordioneur]

2/11/21 – Ox or other bovine

When I saw today’s challenge I immediately thought, “How sad that Mad Fox Brewery is gone”. True, it has been replaced by similar brewpub Solace Outpost, but the thought brought with it the whole COVID weight of not being able to use my daily photo find as an excuse to just stop by a pub for a pint.

Sticking with “fOX” as my target for the day, I found a park in Vienna with a Fox name and thought about going there, and I also considered visiting my friend Fox, whose 15 minutes of fame was being in seminal 1980’s DC punk band United Mutation, but instead I settled on this other nearby fOX-named business.

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[LeftyLaura]

2/11/21 – Ox or other bovine

Oh no, I almost forgot to post. Hunting the wilds of Reston, and Herndon, I was going to take a picture of a fox, Fox Mill, Fox Mill Elementary, Fox Glen, fox fox for ox, West ox, or any other ox Road I could find; but KBikeVA saved me. I present to you a beautiful artwork from Artspace, Herndon.

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