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

[CaseyKane50]

3/2/21 – Little Free Library (with your bike in the pic!)

Little Free Library on the corner of Taney and Latham in Alexandria.

[Kbikeva]

3/2/21 Little Free Library with bike in picture

I had so much fun with this today. I’ve noticed these things popping up all over so I decided to use the map to make a general outline of a ride but allow myself to ‘free flow’ if I saw others. My plan was to take a photo at each one and then decide which one to post based on some random criteria. I could have gone with prettiest, best stocked (as in full), scariest (the one on the playground at the elementary school where kids were outside playing but as people went through the area on bikes or walking the teachers gathered them in like a mama hen with chicks), most thoughtful (the one with a step stool for little ones to climb up and select their own books) or funniest (the one with 9 3/4 on it).

In the end, after 26 miles and 20 little free libraries, I came back to one of the ones near my neighborhood that is beautifully painted. Sadly, due to our photo limitations I can’t show you all four sides because they are each truly worth seeing. The back of it has a spider web with ‘READ’ in it, shades of Charlotte’s Web. This LFL is NOT on the map, but if you’re going to be in the Fox Mill area of Herndon and want to know where it is, I’ll be happy to tell you. (And take notice the car in the driveway has a bike carrier on the back – these are GOOD people!)

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[CBGanimal]

@josh 208961 wrote:

You’re only about 22km away from an official Little Free Library (charter #3700)! We all know that’s nothing compared to your typical ride distance this BAFS. You’d better hope drevil’s not too much of a stickler for his own rules.

Funny i went to the map and nothing came up for “nearby” but when I put in the number you had something came up downtown in the middle of a school…I’ll check it out. Took Drevil’s easy way out since today could be considered “extra mile day”. I had a terrible shaking in my front tire while doing loops close to home just in case it completely came off before I got to the shop, I dropped my phone in the water and wasn’t sure it would work and they announced yesterday the town I live in is quarantined and we should not leave the town limits. Ughh

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[HokieBeth]

3/2 Little Free Libraries

Cathy and Nadine score some good reads at the Little Free Library in Del Ray.

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[LisaE]

3/2/21 – Little Free Library (with your bike in the pic!)

There are so many little free libraries near me in Falls Church that it would have been a fun challenge to see how many I could visit within 1.5 miles of my house. But instead I visited the one that also features a Little Dog Toy Library [emoji240].

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[DCAKen]

3/2/21 – Little Free Library (with your bike in the pic!)

I didn’t consult the site to find this one in Mitchell Park, I just figured it would be there.

I even made a deposit, dropping off a copy of “Up in the Air”, by Walter Kirn. It’s a quintessential pre-9/11 story about the quest for frequent flier miles. Not that much different than our quest for freezing miles, now that I think about it….

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[Mtansill]

@drevil 208928 wrote:

3/2/21 – Little Free Library (with your bike in the pic!)

I’ve always liked this LFL in my neighborhood, because the owners built a “mini me” for their house!
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[rumipumi]

3/2 lil free library w bike

This is the actual book. How depressing!

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[Boomer Cycles]

@drevil 208928 wrote:

3/2/21 – Little Free Library (with your bike in the pic!)

Like many Freezing Saddles, I too have a free little library around the corner and down the street on Shreve Road (and Hillsman, unregistered LFL), so I went there first, and then did my daily BAFS ride.

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[AlanA]

3/2/21 – Little Free Library (with your bike in the pic!)

The one in Boonsboro, MD has gone rogue!
I have to confess, this is the closest I’ve ever been to one of these.

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P.S. Apologies for not liking any of the posts for this challenge. I usually like posts that are interesting to me and stand out in some way, but these are all a bunch of boxes with books and bikes next to them. They all look the same to me!!

[Sophie CW]

3/2/21 – Little Free Library (with your bike in the pic!)
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[historygeek]

3/2/21 Little Free Library

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[Kbikeva]

@AlanA 208977 wrote:

3/2/21 – Little Free Library (with your bike in the pic!)

The one in Boonsboro, MD has gone rogue!
I have to confess, this is the closest I’ve ever been to one of these.

I wonder — if they feel the need to say they’re “rogue”, are they really?

[AlanA]

@josh 208961 wrote:

You’re only about 22km away from an official Little Free Library (charter #3700)! We all know that’s nothing compared to your typical ride distance this BAFS. You’d better hope drevil’s not too much of a stickler for his own rules.

Is Josh trying to stir up trouble again??

[AlanA]

@Kbikeva 208982 wrote:

@AlanA 208977 wrote:

3/2/21 – Little Free Library (with your bike in the pic!)

The one in Boonsboro, MD has gone rogue!
I have to confess, this is the closest I’ve ever been to one of these.

I wonder — if they feel the need to say they’re “rogue”, are they really?

Maybe they have the banned Dr. Seuss books??

[Author]

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