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

[AlanA]

@drevil 209002 wrote:

3/3/21 – Train

On March 3, 1938, the Mallard steam locomotive was built. Exactly 4 months later, it set the world speed record of 126mph.

On your ride, capture a train and post your one photo here on the forum.

Happy hunting!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSL50S66Oe8

Just curious. Will train tracks or RR Xing signs count? Does is have to be a series of RR cars? Will a locomotive be enough? Or what about a Caboose? What about going to a bike shop and taking a picture of a drive train? What about a picture of a person thinking (train of thought)? What about riding by a college and seeing a person that is being trained in an education?

Sorry, I don’t usually worry much about these, but this looks very vague. Your link to “train” could pretty much be anything you wanted it to be. Two cars on the street could also count. That tree has trained its limbs on the sun. Etc.

And, by the way. There is no mention of a likeness of a train, so technically many of the pictures don’t qualify.

[Nadine]

@bikesnick 209005 wrote:

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Omg what a great little free library you got! It’s beautiful! Where is it exactly?

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[LisaE]

@accordioneur 209000 wrote:

As I was finishing up my ride I passed someone who I spotted wearing the telltale green reflectors (LisaE, I think, based on Strava Flyby) – I shouted out “Hi Freezing Saddles!” as I went by, but I demonstrated my usual lack of social graces and didn’t slow down to chat with them.

LOL. I thought I heard something as someone sped past me. A belated “hi!”

[bikedavid]

@drevil 208928 wrote:

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

Need some LSAT books? This particular free library often has text books and books in foreign languages.

[Shawnbeast]

@drevil 208928 wrote:

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

In 2009, President Obama proclaimed March 2 as Read Across America Day.

In celebration of the day, snap a picture of one of those happy little boxes of knowledge and intrigue known as a Little Free Library, and post it here on the forum. For this hunt, make sure your bike is also in the picture.

Happy hunting!

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P.S. – for those playing OUTSIDE of the U.S. that don’t have good access to a Little Free Library, take a pic of a cool looking library, but make sure that you have your bike in the pic

3/2/21 – Little Free Library
I visited one of about eight LFLs within 2 miles of my house. I ended up visiting #55455 on Langbrook Road in Springfield, VA and was treated to a delightful view of not only a Library, but apparently an entire lending playspace with what appears to be a gnome city! Adorable and totally made my day. #readacrossamerica

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[Indiana]

3/2/21 – Little Free Library (with your bike in the pic!)
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Robot, with bike part accessories!
Outside Brookland’s Finest

[sszibler]

3/2/21 – Little Free Library

2nd & Elm NW

[Indiana]

3/3/21 – Train

and since this part of the ride happened after midnight, here’s a train, that’s also a little free library!
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[sszibler]

Reading! I lived there. And I read in Reading.

[sszibler]

@Indiana 209014 wrote:

3/3/21 – Train

and since this part of the ride happened after midnight, here’s a train, that’s also a little free library!
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Reading! I lived there. And I read in Reading.

[bikesnick]

Nadine wrote:

@bikesnick 209005 wrote:

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Omg what a great little free library you got! It’s beautiful! Where is it exactly?

Nadine, it is #47400, in the Hallcrest Heights townhouse community on Eldorado Street off Great Falls Street in McLean, VA.

[bikedavid]

@drevil 209002 wrote:

3/3/21 – Train]

All aboard the red line!

[AlanA]

@Indiana 209014 wrote:

3/3/21 – Train

and since this part of the ride happened after midnight, here’s a train, that’s also a little free library!
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That is an awesome little free library set up!
Technically, that would not count as a “train” per the link we were given. That’s why I tried to get a clarification of what was going to be allowed.

[DCAKen]

3/3/21 – Train

A kinder-train on the way to the park

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[mrhappy_onabike]

3/3/21 – Train

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