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

[accordioneur]

3/4/21 – Bowling Alley

I took a trip down to Bowl America.

(Falls Church)

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[accordioneur]

@Nadine 209087 wrote:

You had just taken this when I saw you this afternoon, right? [emoji57]

@accordioneur

@Nadine – yup, just seconds before. I had planned to site there and wait for a train, but there was a train going by as I hit the bridge so I scrambled to get my phone out and barely got the photo.

[Kbikeva]

@rumipumi 209125 wrote:

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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Rumi, if you like “Bolero”, you need to listen to this podcast: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/unraveling-bolero It’s absolutely fascinating!

[AlanA]

@Catedrew 209115 wrote:

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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That is so cute!! Great faces on the pins.
Did you bowl a game? I think you should get extra credit if you did!

[AlanA]

@rumipumi 209125 wrote:

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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I still recall what Bo Derek liked to do while listening to Bolero. I’d best not repeat it here.
And you must listen to Beck’s Bolero if you haven’t heard it.

[bigredboiler]

3/4/21 – Bowling Alley

Definitely needed to Google map my choices for the day. Hit a couple before sunrise.
Here is Bowlero in Annandale.

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[Boomer Cycles]

3/04/21 – Bowling Alley

Bowl America in Falls Church, already posted by [mention]LisaE [/mention] [mention]bikesnick [/mention] and [mention]accordioneur [/mention]

I used to celebrate [emoji322] birthday parties here for my son when he was in Shrevewood Elementary School as they would let the kids run wild, feed them cardboard pizza, and then send them home to pass out. The parents of his buddies loved when I took them here to bounce off the walls, have some peace at home, and not have to worry about clean up. Bowl America forever!

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[smb9600]

@Steve O 209098 wrote:

3/4/21 – Bowling Alley

Looks like komorebi and I had the same post-coffee club idea

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Did your purposely ride your blue bike to match???

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[smb9600]

3/4/21 – Bowling Alley

Who knew there was a bowling alley in Arlington??? [emoji2368]

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[Sophie CW]

3/4/21 – Bowling Alley
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Bowlmor on Shady Grove Road in Gaithersburg, MD

[drevil]

3/5/21 – Monster

On March 5, 1922, Dracula knockoff “Nosferatu” premiered in Berlin. Fun fact: “The estate of Bram Stoker (author of Dracula) sued for copyright infringement and won. The court ordered all existing prints of Nosferatu burned, but one purported print of the film had already been distributed around the world. This print was duplicated over the years, kept alive by a cult following, making it an example of an early cult film.”

On your ride, find a monster (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/monster – let us know which definition you are using), snap a pic of this beast, and post it in the forum.

Happy hunting!

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[sszibler]

3/4/21 – Bowling Alley

The blue dot 🔵 is as close as I could get. I even went into the parking garage and looked in the elevator area. The board didn’t have the alley listed.

[cvcalhoun]

3/5/21 – Monster. Definitions:

• 1b The building is unusually large for its neighborhood–six stories in an area of one- and two-story homes.
• 4 The building has bright lights shining into the houses across the street all night long.
• 3 The neighbors are threatened by it, because they believe it lowers property values–the ultimate terror in Bethesda.

My alternative to this was the “dangerous dogwalker” signs I passed. But I decided that if my impulse on seeing these signs on a deserted bike path after dark was to stop and take a photo of them, as opposed to exiting the area immediately, he probably didn’t qualify as threatening.

Then again, the way I explained my first FSLNHPP to my then wife was, “I’m going to meet a bunch of guys I don’t know in a deserted park after dark.” So maybe I don’t have the same concept of “threatening” as other people. (In my defense, I lived to tell the tale.)

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[cvcalhoun]

@sszibler 209139 wrote:

3/4/21 – Bowling Alley

The blue dot  is as close as I could get. I even went into the parking garage and looked in the elevator area. The board didn’t have the alley listed.

Yeah, the bowling alley (Lucky Strike) is on the second floor of that building. Once the building is closed, it’s impossible to see it.

[cvcalhoun]

3/5/21 – Monster. Definitions:

• 1b The building is unusually large for its neighborhood–six stories in an area of one- and two-story homes.
• 4 The building has bright lights shining into the houses across the street all night long.
• 3 The neighbors are threatened by it, because they believe it lowers property values–the ultimate terror in Bethesda.

My alternative to this was the “dangerous dogwalker” signs I passed. But I decided that if my impulse on seeing these signs on a deserted bike path after dark was to stop and take a photo of them, as opposed to exiting the area immediately, he probably didn’t qualify as threatening.

Then again, the way I explained my first FSLNHPP to my then wife was, “I’m going to meet a bunch of guys I don’t know in a deserted park after dark.” So maybe I don’t have the same concept of “threatening” as other people. (In my defense, I lived to tell the tale.)

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