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

[Catedrew]

@drevil 207888 wrote:

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

2/15/21 – Human Skeleton. I was on a mission to find a skeleton, but all the ones in my neighborhood that had been up for Halloween, and a few for Christmas, had been put away. Then I started looking for chiropractors or physical therapist offices, hoping I’d find a skeleton as part of their luck, but no luck – only parts (usually spines). I was about to give up I came across a Little Library that I have never visited before. As luck would have it, there was a kid’s book on human anatomy. YAY!!!!!!

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[CBGanimal]

@drevil 207888 wrote:

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

I found no skeletons and searched for a few subanagrams and came up with “Retales” and even that store went out of business!

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[AlanA]

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

I killed two birds with one stone.

My park of the day was Olney Manor “SKATE” park. I had no idea this place would come in so handy! Some people were skating, but I didn’t need to get an action shot today.

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[Catedrew]

@camiller 207933 wrote:

2/15/2021 St. Skeletor’s Day

This house always has skeletons decorating the front yard that changes with the calendar. I don’t think these skeletons know that it is St. Skeletor’s Day!! �� They have been hitting the bottle. ♥️

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LOVE IT! There was a house in my neighborhood that had a giant skeleton for Halloween, and then they put a Santa hat on it for Christmas. I was hoping they would continue with the themed holiday adornments, but alas, no luck. Where is this one located?

[Steve O]

@cvcalhoun 207928 wrote:

2/15/21 – “St Skeletor’s Day” Subanagram (5 or more letters) or Human Skeleton
Okay, I admit it, I got a little desperate on this one. The only skeletons I know about anywhere close to Bethesda are in the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Silver Spring, and it’s closed due to the pandemic. But I found someone on NextDoor selling a top with skeletons on it. It seemed rude just to ask to come take a picture of it, and it wasn’t that expensive, so I ended up biking out to the Twinbrook Library and buying it.

On what may or may not be a related topic, anyone want a women’s size medium scrubs top with skeletons on it? Free to good (or bad, for that matter) home.

This might also belong in the “Last Mile” thread for Pointless Prizes (as vs. daily rides), if such a thread existed.

[Steve O]

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

“Kettler” is a subanagram, so I headed over to the Kettler Iceplex in Ballston.
But “D’oh!” it’s been appropriated by Medstar. It’s now the Medstar Capitals Iceplex. All the signs and branding have been changed.

So I looked all around hoping for some vestigial identifier and found this, which is less cool than what I had hoped for:

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[bigredboiler]

2/15/21 – Skeletons

DC has so many great murals. This one was worth revisiting for the day.
I see Serdar has the same thought I did.

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[Boomer Cycles]

@Serdar 207921 wrote:

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Here is a human skeleton riding a rooster
https://www.strava.com/activities/4791728280

Kudos to Boomer2U for organizing DC Murals Rides last year! That’s how I knew this morning where to hunt a skeleton.

And the Espolón has great tacos [emoji895] too … a WAPO Top Ten taqueria!!

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[ALClayville]

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 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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[LhasaCM]

2/15 St. Skeletor’s Day

Lots of pictures of popes, JFK, and otolaryngeal diagrams, but no skeletons in the part of Medstar Georgetown University Hospital I visited today. Also failed to see one in the wild, but did pass Oyster Bilingual School in NW.

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[LeftyLaura]

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

2nd attempt with decision made. I’ll be a rule follower for my point please. Skate-ing while cruising.

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[Indiana]

2/15/21 – “st skeletor’s day” subanagram (5 or more letters) or human skeleton

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“Tory’s” mountain

[Indiana]

^^ sorry, I tried to delete the extra attached image but can’t see how to do so on my phone

[Nadine]

2/15/21 – St Skeletor’s Day – skeleton or subanagram

I missed my 10th grade biology classroom on today’s quest. My teacher had a skeleton we called “flaco.” (She also had a fish we called “Notoque” because that’s what the sign on the fish tank said. For non Spanish speakers, “No toque” means “don’t touch.” “Flaco” means “skinny.”)

In the absence of Flaco I found a subanagram on my ride today – SOLAR.

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[karenbikes2]

@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 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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2/15/21 – “St Skeletor’s Day” Subanagram (5 or more letters) or Human Skeleton
Stores – sign in window stating “Due to state and local mandates, everyone must wear a mask while in our stores.”

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