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

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[bikesnick]

@drevil 209084 wrote:

3/4/21 – Bowling Alley

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[Kbikeva]

3/4/21 Bowling Alley

Not sure how much business they’re getting right now, Bowlero in Leesburg is in a very high-tone shopping center!

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[Nadine]

3/4/21 – bowling alley

Since I was planning a 2 Beth ride starting & ending in Georgetown today I found this place for me & Hokiebeth. I see I’m not the first to post a pic of it…. I won’t be the last either [emoji38]…. Look for a pic from Hokiebeth taken from just left of mine….

BTW 2 Beth rides are the bomb. CivilWar Beth = RoutePlannerBeth. She got me my hills back, which I had lost w/radiation lung damage. Riding with friends is the best.

Looking forward to post vaccine riding when we can feel safer about including more & newer riders!

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[Catedrew]

@drevil 209084 wrote:

3/4/21 – Bowling Alley

3/4/21 – Bowling Alley.

It’s amazing what you can find in the Little Free Libraries. Especially when the little free libraries are for things other than books. In our area, we have a puzzle library and a games library. And I found a bowling game. So I set up a bowling ‘alley’. Will that work? 😮

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[camiller]

3/4/2021 Bowling Alley

Bowlero in Centreville

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[AlanA]

3/4/21 – Bowling Alley

Duckpins anybody?
They are open for business and there were a few cars in the parking lot.
And, yes! I had to go back up that hill. The bowling alley is on a dead-end road.

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[LhasaCM]

3/4 – Bowling Alley

The Eleanor near the MBT on Florida Ave NE is closed temporarily, but has two duckpin-esque lanes as part of its “bowling lounge”

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[HokieBeth]

3/5 Bowling

Nadine found this and I just tagged along.

Fun fact: I actually got a varsity letter in High School for bowling. It was a men’s sport and so I also have the distinction of being the first woman to letter in a men’s sport at my high school. My average was low 180’s.

It’s ain’t much but it’s all I got [emoji2370]

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[Indiana]

3/4/21 – Bowling Alley

After feeling the first wind gust I was tempted to call up a neighbor who is a potter to see if she wanted to set up her pottery wheel and other bowl-making accoutrements (aka “bowling” materials) in a local alley 😉…. But instead I persevered and made it to Rinaldi’s Riverdale Bowl, very thankful that I overrode Google map’s directions that would have kept me on Kenilworth Avenue longer than necessary!
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[LeftyLaura]

Vintage Lanes in Leesburg, enjoy in you spare time and strike up a masked conversation.

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[DCAKen]

3/4/21 – Bowling Alley

Bikedavid, Nadine, and HokieBeth were here earlier, so I’ll pick up the spare by getting picture of another one of their banners

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[Mtansill]

3/4/2021 – Bowling Alley

It’s so nice that the local Bowlero decided to coordinate with my bicycle!
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[historygeek]

3/4/21 Bowling alley

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[rumipumi]

3/4 bowlero

College Park Lanes aka Bowlero. I serenaded my biking buddies, humming Ravel’s “Bolero”, made famous by the movie “10” starring Bo Derek. (They were unimpressed.)

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[cvcalhoun]

3/4/21 – Bowling alley
This one makes me sad. It used to be a Bowl America, and I often took my kids and their friends there for birthday parties, or just for weekend entertainment. It had a child friendly atmosphere, crappy food that the kids loved, and duckpins for those too little to hold a regular bowling ball. But like so much of Bethesda, it got “upgraded.” They added adult beverages, better food, loud music, and a club-type atmosphere, and deleted the duckpins. It’s closed for the pandemic now, but even once it reopens (scheduled for April 4), it won’t be a place I can ever take my grandchildren.

Just give me about five more minutes, and I’ll start using expressions like “in my day” and “whipper snapper”!

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