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

[DCAKen]

3/7/21 – Cookie Selfie

The things I’ll do for a cookie (or three)! On my longer ride this morning, I didn’t see any GS sellers, but when we stopped at a bakery, I got a huge chocolate chip cookie. You know, for carbo-loading.

After I got home, I saw the posting about the -GS Find-a-cookie, so I looked for the nearest place. I hopped on a bike share and headed to Adams Morgan, but no dice at the location. Then it was off to Georgetown to Saxbys. They were out of Samoas, my favorite, so I picked up some lemon-ups.

Honestly, my favorite cookie is hot out of the oven at home, like a salted toffee, my latest batch.

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[CaseyKane50]

3/7/21 – Cookie selfie

Indulging in an Oatmeal Apricot cookie from Bread & Water at their Westport (née Pentagon Row) location.

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[Kbikeva]

3/7/21 Cookie – GS Cookie Selfie

Thanks to my riding partner, Lefty Laura, I have the goods to garnish 2 points without having to actually purchase any myself. If I’d known how bad this was going to look at the end of a ride, I might have done it differently, but there you are.

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[bikedavid]

@drevil 209271 wrote:

3/7/21 – Cookie Selfie

A good excuse to try the sugar cookies at Firehook Bakery!

[LhasaCM]

3/7 – cookie

Since I was forbidden from getting more cookies (we’re at the age where a lot of friends from when we were young now have Girl Scouts to support so we’re well enough stocked): here’s a picture of where DCAKen got his cookies (sales were at the table out front)!

[Boomer Cycles]

3/7/21 – Cookie

After yesterday’s successful collaboration on combining periodic elements, [mention]HokieBeth [/mention] and I joined forces once again today to share the last oatmeal raisin cookie at Firehook Bakery in Alexandria VA, 20 minutes after their closing hour, as I was able to sweet talk my way in by explaining why we needed a cookie [emoji514]!

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[historygeek]

3/7/21 cookie
While I did eat a girl scout cookie on my ride, it was not one I purchased. So here’s an excellent place to buy a cookie.

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[komorebi]

@drevil 209271 wrote:

3/7/21 – Cookie Selfie

3/7/2021 — cookie selfie. Specifically, a selfie with a Samoa, which I purchased from the very energetic Girl Scouts outside Vienna Rexall Drugs and consumed later on during my ride:

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[bikesnick]

@drevil 209271 wrote:

3/7/21 – Cookie Selfie
As an alternative, if you don’t want to go inside or buy a cookie, take a pic of a bakery where you’d buy a delicious cookie for yourself or a friend. This’ll net you a point.

The Girl Scouts website said they were selling at CVS, but when I got there, they were gone. 8(
Sweetbites (McLean VA) has great coffee and more, but they were closed, too. 8(
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[cvcalhoun]

3/7/21 Girl Scout cookie
I have six boxes in my freezer, and definitely don’t need more. But I figure I was the easiest customer they had all day. I didn’t care that they were out of Thin Mints, because I wasn’t planning on eating the cookies anyway. I gave them a $10 bill for a $6 box of cookies, and told them they could consider the extra to be a donation rather than giving me change. I never removed my mask. And when I finished photographing the box of cookies, I put it in the box for donations to teachers.

Then again, I hear that buying Girl Scout cookies will support transgender lesbian Socialist Satanists. In that case, I should have bought several more boxes!

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[LeftyLaura]

3/7/21 Girl Scout cookie

I contacted my local Girl Scout cookie resource and scored a box of thin mints, probably my personal favorites. Hopped on the bike, picked up the cookies, met KbikeVA, rode to the art ride. We had a lovely time cruising Reston art, followed by socially-distance tacos at tacos zocalo. Tacos and thin mints is a real party! Please note box on my shoulder. (Sounds like a John Denver tune)

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[josh]

@drevil 209271 wrote:

3/7/21 – Cookie Selfie

Boomer’s link didn’t turn up any close-by Girl Scout sellers today, nor did I encounter any during my ride. I swung by the grocery store to get some cheap but disturbingly good, artificially flavored lemon snaps.
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Some days we work on watts, some days we work on kilos.

[Indiana]

3/7/21 – Cookie

I biked with my Girl Scout to Uncle Chips, a favorite spot for cookies or black bean brownies. Unfortunately located on North Capitol.
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We do appreciate the Girl Scouts support and can bike-deliver cookies in DC if orders are placed this week:o

[rumipumi]

@LeftyLaura 209302 wrote:

3/7/21 Girl Scout cookie

I contacted my local Girl Scout cookie resource and scored a box of thin mints, probably my personal favorites. Hopped on the bike, picked up the cookies, met KbikeVA, rode to the art ride. We had a lovely time cruising Reston art, followed by socially-distance tacos at tacos zocalo. Tacos and thin mints is a real party! Please note box on my shoulder. (Sounds like a John Denver tune)

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“Cookies… on my shoulder… make me happy”

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[Serdar]

@drevil 209271 wrote:

3/7/21 – Cookie Selfie

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me posing with girl scout cookies
https://www.strava.com/activities/4909848598

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