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

[camiller]

2/13/2021 Diner with Bike Bonus

The 29 Diner has been serving food in Fairfax since 1947. Because of COVID-19 they have been providing free food to the community in need. This is from their website:

29 Diner’s FREE FOOD pantry and FREE FOOD kitchen serves our at risk youth and their families in our community. We are open 7 days a week from 8 AM until 8 PM providing FREE hot meals, FREE non-perishable foods, FREE refrigerated food, FREE household items and FREE healthcare items. Our FREE mobile food pantry & FREE FOOD truck provide FREE POP UP FOOD locations in our Community and deliveries to food insecure families in our Community. Your kind donations has allowed us to feed over 30,000 at risk members in our Community! Please CONTINUE to DONATE & GIVE!

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[Kbikeva]

@camiller 207807 wrote:

2/13/2021 Diner with Bike Bonus

The 29 Diner has been serving food in Fairfax since 1947. Because of COVID-19 they have been providing free food to the community in need. This is from their website:

29 Diner’s FREE FOOD pantry and FREE FOOD kitchen serves our at risk youth and their families in our community. We are open 7 days a week from 8 AM until 8 PM providing FREE hot meals, FREE non-perishable foods, FREE refrigerated food, FREE household items and FREE healthcare items. Our FREE mobile food pantry & FREE FOOD truck provide FREE POP UP FOOD locations in our Community and deliveries to food insecure families in our Community. Your kind donations has allowed us to feed over 30,000 at risk members in our Community! Please CONTINUE to DONATE & GIVE!

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I’m guessing they weren’t actually open 24 hours when you went to get this photo … I do love what they’re doing in the community.

[camiller]

@Kbikeva 207808 wrote:

I’m guessing they weren’t actually open 24 hours when you went to get this photo … I do love what they’re doing in the community.

You are correct. All was dark when I arrived. They are currently 8A-8P. I couldn’t bring anything home to eat.

[cvcalhoun]

@Steve O 207803 wrote:

Unlike all you other wimps, I waited until after noon to go out and burnish my Rule 9 bona fides.

Are you sure that didn’t violate Note 4?

[bikedavid]

@drevil 207732 wrote:

2/13/21 – Diner

Duplex Diner, the other diner in Adams Morgan! This one has shots and tots to go.

[Nadine]

2/13/21 – diner + bike

I was gonna get a pic of an interesting diner – metro 29 on Lee highway is at least not a chain, and I believe it’s an actual lunch counter site with a plaque on it about sit ins! (Or maybe that’s just nearby and the diner where the sitins happened is now a drug store. I forget.)

But I was concerned about my brakes working when wet so decided to avoid hills & go to Clarendon. This IS a nice diner – though it’s a chain [emoji2358][emoji1744]

And I did it when it was yucchy out. Not because I’m not a wimp (just lookit my speed [emoji38][emoji2358][emoji1744]) but because I don’t LIKE getting up and out early on a weekend day when I have a nice warm body in bed beside me. Priorities, baybee! Also I was surprised to find it was actually kinda nice out, though it sure looked scary from my living room. Oh and my studded tires worked better than my BOOTS. Every time I got off the bike it was slippery underfoot – but on the bike it was [emoji1360].

Today was a day when I didn’t expect to feel grateful for freezing saddles making me get out. But I did!

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[Mtansill]

2/13/2021 – diner

I woke up before 0600 today and went out before dawn. I do like the food here. The completely enclosed COVID tent makes me roll my eyes, though (out of picture). Still, makes for a striking sight in the pre-dawn light with bike lights contributing to the show.

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[Nadine]

@bigredboiler 207785 wrote:

2/13/21 – Diner & Bike

I really should have just taken a diner photo and moved on, since the weather moved in fastest than I expected. Instead, as typical, I used my precious cycling time to make a diner tour (among other things) of the brief morning. I did have to cut the tour short after 8 diners, as I saw the freezing rain quickly approaching on the radar.
Got caught 30min out, and made it home with nothing worse than ice covered bike and clothes

Silver Diner gets the photo for here today. Nice colors and lighting, plus Silver Diner contributed to a clock photo a few days ago as well!

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Your bike colors go SO well with the silver diner colors in the pic.

This must be the one in Clarendon. Looks exactly like my pic – except your bike is closer to the camera and matches the diner.

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[Indiana]

2/13/21 – Diner

Meant to circle back around to get a photo of Murry & Paul’s but ice and traffic weren’t cooperating, so here’s Brookland Grill:
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[drevil]

2/14/21 – Heart

Valentine’s Day has dark origins with vestiges of both Christian and ancient Roman tradition, such as women being gently slapped with bloody goat hides by drunk naked men. (WHAT?!?!)

Anyways, on your ride, find a heart – either the shape or the word. And you might want to avoid any tipsy naked dudes with goat hides — unless that’s your kink

Happy hunting!

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[Jessica Hirschhorn]

2-14-21

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[Kbikeva]

@Jessica Hirschhorn 207834 wrote:

2-14-21

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Is this a piece of art somewhere? Must see if so!

[n18]

@Kbikeva 207835 wrote:

Is this a piece of art somewhere? Must see if so!

On the interweb: https://giphy.com/gifs/cd6Fp0qEGR3ag

[Kbikeva]

@n18 207836 wrote:

On the interweb: https://giphy.com/gifs/cd6Fp0qEGR3ag

Oh rats – I got all excited thinking it was a new local thing to see! Still cool though!

[Boomer Cycles]

@drevil 207826 wrote:

2/14/21 – Heart

Didn’t get naked, and wasn’t anybody’s goat, but definitely risked getting bloody on this morning’s icy ride!

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