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

[tomacsh]

2/14/21–Heart

Love Spoke-n Here (from my heart in Takoma Park to yours!)

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[Kbikeva]

@cvcalhoun 207878 wrote:

2/14/21 – Heart
Finding a heart–actually, a lot of hearts–was not exactly a challenge on Valentine’s Day! However, there were unaccountably no goats.

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Carol, I have found just the opposite out here. It’s as if the restaurants and places that ARE open aren’t decorating for anything. It was so sad to ride around looking for an ox for Lunar New Year because it highlighted how unenthusiastic the Asian restaurants were about celebrating. And today, looking for hearts, it was the same again. Makes me a bit sad.

[drevil]

2/15/21 – “St Skeletor’s Day” Subanagram (5 or more letters) or Human Skeleton

Single and/or tired of the commercialism/smoochiness of Valentines Day? Then St. Skeletor‘s Day, celebrated on February 15 since 1998, was made for you! Skeletor – He Man’s archenemy – is the inspiration for the day, and it’s all about anti-love and not doing anything special for anyone.

On your ride, scramble the letters of “St Skeletor’s Day” to come up with a real word that has 5 or more letters, and find that word out in the wild for one point. The alternative for two points is to find a human skeleton likeness, but it has to be more than half of the body including the skull (i.e., not just the skull or a just a hand)

Happy hunting!

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[cvcalhoun]

@Kbikeva 207887 wrote:

Carol, I have found just the opposite out here. It’s as if the restaurants and places that ARE open aren’t decorating for anything. It was so sad to ride around looking for an ox for Lunar New Year because it highlighted how unenthusiastic the Asian restaurants were about celebrating. And today, looking for hearts, it was the same again. Makes me a bit sad.

I guess Suburban Florist was trying to make up for everyone else in the DMV that wasn’t decorating for Valentine’s Day?

[AlanA]

@drevil 207888 wrote:

2/15/21 – “St Skeletor’s Day” Subanagram (5 or more letters) or Human Skeleton

Single and/or tired of the commercialism/smoochiness of Valentines Day? Then St. Skeletor’s Day, celebrated on February 15 since 1998, was made for you! Skeletor – He Man’s archenemy – is the inspiration for the day, and it’s all about anti-love and not doing anything special for anyone.

On your ride, scramble the letters of “St Skeletor’s Day” to come up with a real word that has 5 or more letters, and find that word out in the wild for one point. The alternative for two points is to find a human skeleton likeness, but it has to be the whole body (i.e., not just the skull or a just a hand — we need the whole shebang!)

Happy hunting!

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What a pisser! I have an appt. with my back specialist on Tuesday. They have skeletons up the wazoo there.

[historygeek]

2/15/21 heart

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[bigredboiler]

2/14/21 – Heart

Hearts ‘o plenty at least on Valentine’s Day. Good thing, because it wasn’t the greatest day to go hunting for too long.
Here is a festive yard in Arlington. I’ve learned that these people have inflatables for all holidays.

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[AlanA]

@bigredboiler 207893 wrote:

2/14/21 – Heart

Hearts ‘o plenty at least on Valentine’s Day. Good thing, because it wasn’t the greatest day to go hunting for too long.
Here is a festive yard in Arlington. I’ve learned that these people have inflatables for all holidays.

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I have a house that has flags for every occasion on my usual rides. But, sadly, I am unable to do my usual rides. I have to hope for the best on my shorter rides.

[Catedrew]

@drevil 207826 wrote:

2/14/21 – Heart

2/14/21 – heart

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[NoVaNoobGA]

@drevil 207826 wrote:

2/14/21 – Heart

2/14/21 Hearts all over, but here’s just one.
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[NoVaNoobGA]

@drevil 207249 wrote:

2/7/21 – Superb Owl (or a few alternatives)

Apparently tomorrow is the day of the Superb Owl. Finding an owl in the wild – whether it be real, fake, or art – will net you 2 points. This hunt doesn’t include the word, we’ll actually need the bird likeness. Capture it on your phone and post here in the forum.

Happy hunting!

I know this is tardy, but Maboi was really proud of it, so I will post it anyway.
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[Steve O]

2/14/2021 Heart

Midnight seems like such an arbitrary moment. It still seems like Sunday to me.

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[sszibler]

2/15/21 Skeletor’s Day

I don’t know if this 100% counts, but the instructions don’t say the found word can’t be in another word and when I looked it up on Google the photo had it as a separate word. Maybe the Google photo was inside. The word is Easter �� ����*♂️The first pic is live. The second is copied from Google Maps.

P.S.

I don’t know why the controls on the forum posts often just don’t work – like the management of photos. Sometimes it works flawlessly (well, not flawlessly because the upload seems to work just by checking the photo boxes in your added photos – no dragging or pushing “Go” necessary. But other times all manner of hitting buttons does nothing and I end up wasting half an hour or more. I’ve had these problems with the forum for years. I rate the thread “poor” for that reason, not the thread idea – that’s excellent – but the forum controls being all wanky. Facebook is 1000% easier to post. Maybe we need ads on the forum to get some revenue. And now I see that in my second picture the word is almost illegible, while it was fine when I uploaded it.

[Boomer Cycles]

@Kbikeva 207840 wrote:

You know, the rest of that phrase involved ‘drunken men’ …

Seriously, you’re braver than I going out this morning. My driveway looked and felt like the crispy hard sugar topping of a stale piece of cake. It’s melting now, but I’m still waiting a while …

And, nice logo find. It’s a creative one!

I guess that I could’ve added that I rode my bike across ice-coated streets like a drunken man[emoji6]

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[bikesnick]

@drevil 207888 wrote:

2/15/21 – “St Skeletor’s Day” Subanagram (5 or more letters) or Human Skeleton
The alternative for two points is to find a human skeleton likeness, but it has to be the whole body (i.e., not just the skull or a just a hand — we need the whole shebang!)

Boris was happy to pose with my bicycle.
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