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

[EasyRider]

1/11/21 – Plane

Air Force Memorial at night

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[Mtansill]

@drevil 204836 wrote:

1/11/21 – Plane

1/11/2021: Plane

Planes abound in College Park, MD, because we are the home to the oldest continually operating airport in the world. It was was established in August 1909 by the United States Army Signal Corps to serve as a training location for Wilbur Wright to instruct two military officers to fly in the government’s first airplane. You can find out more information here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_Park_Airport

For my photo I chose to take a picture of one of these simple silhouettes painted on the pavement of the nearby bike trail – which happens to be part of the Anacostia tributary trail system and thus REALLY accessible to any bicyclist in the DC area. How cool is that? Anyway, there are a series of these silhouettes which help to lead the curious hiker/biker to the airport and the connected museum.

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[consularrider]

@drevil 204836 wrote:

1/11/21 – Plane

“On Jan. 11, 1935, the aviator Amelia Earhart began a trip to Oakland, Calif., from Honolulu that she would complete the next day, becoming the first person to fly to the United States mainland from Hawaii.”

Happy hunting!

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Nothing too original. Three planes at Washington National Airport from the MVT Flyover.

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[Kbikeva]

@Mtansill 204956 wrote:

1/11/2021: Plane

Planes abound in College Park, MD, because we are the home to the oldest continually operating airport in the world. It was was established in August 1909 by the United States Army Signal Corps to serve as a training location for Wilbur Wright to instruct two military officers to fly in the government’s first airplane. You can find out more information here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_Park_Airport

For my photo I chose to take a picture of one of these simple silhouettes painted on the pavement of the nearby bike trail – which happens to be part of the Anacostia tributary trail system and thus REALLY accessible to any bicyclist in the DC area. How cool is that? Anyway, there are a series of these silhouettes which help to lead the curious hiker/biker to the airport and the connected museum.

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I used to love that part of the Cider Ride. It was easy to get distracted!

[Laurie E.]

@drevil 204836 wrote:

1/11/21 – Plane

“On Jan. 11, 1935, the aviator Amelia Earhart began a trip to Oakland, Calif., from Honolulu that she would complete the next day, becoming the first person to fly to the United States mainland from Hawaii.”

Happy hunting!

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Plane 1/11/2021

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[Laurie E.]

@drevil 204836 wrote:

1/11/21 – Plane

“On Jan. 11, 1935, the aviator Amelia Earhart began a trip to Oakland, Calif., from Honolulu that she would complete the next day, becoming the first person to fly to the United States mainland from Hawaii.”

Happy hunting!

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Did an errands ride to Walmart and decided to look for toy planes inside the store. It’s a plane. Plane 1/11/2021

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[Steve O]

@accordioneur 204926 wrote:

A bridge ramp is an example of an inclined plane. I remain optimistic that someday this one will carry W&OD riders over Rt. 29.

Whaddya mean someday?

[drevil]

1/12/21 – Bat

On January 12, 1966, ABC premiered its Batman television series, starring Adam West as the caped crusader and Burt Ward as Robin.

Happy hunting!

[camiller]

1/11/2021 – Plane

You need to go to an airport to take a flight on an airplane. Here is a Reagan National Airport highway sign on I-66 as seen from the Custis Trail.

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[drevil]

I’ve tallied up to 1/10/21. If your score seems off, please send me a PM and let me know what you think the issue is.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kgsAzaLIXN-IJMjscyNnQTNvWEp__VzgGBSkJDYrTfs

A few notes:

1. For scoring, instead of giving a 0 for not meeting all the rules, I’m giving .25 points for making an effort. I’ve changed previous 0s to .25
2. The two biggest things that folks are getting dinged on are too many pics (only 1/day) or not including the date and the found object (or “Replying with Quote” my request for that day). Please know that it’s not punitive, it’s just so that I can keep track of things more easily on this completely manual scoring system
3. Another thing I dinged for were people bringing things from home. I can’t always tell if a snack bar was bought during the ride or brought from home so I’ll give the benefit of the doubt, but a quick release nut was most likely brought from home

Thanks everyone for playing! Still a lot of days left! 😎

[drevil]

Kbikeva wrote:

1/9/21 Balloon

Also, has anyone else had the experience that the next day after a particular subject is the challenge, you see them everywhere? Today I saw bells all over the place!

@tomacsh 204694 wrote:

Synchronicity!!! If it’s meaningful to you, you’ll find a pattern [emoji3526]

Baader–Meinhof phenomenon (or frequency illusion) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion

[cvcalhoun]

1/12/21 – Bat

This was the hardest one yet. There used to be a tree by a nearby school in which bats would roost, and they’d fly back and forth between there and the chimney to the school. But when I went to look today, the tree had been chopped down, and there was no sign of bats flying around the chimney.

I also looked for stores around Bethesda with BAT in the name. There is one. But it doesn’t have a sign on the outside of it.

I thought of sporting goods stores. But I’m not going into any stores right now, and there was no way to determine which ones might have a display of bats in the window.

I checked the nearest baseball field, hoping someone had left a bat around, but no such luck. And I feared that no baseball games would be played during the day, at least during nonworking hours.

I took a picture of a Maryland War of 1812 license plate (which depicts a BATtle), but that seemed to be stretching things.

So I started a forlorn search around the neighborhood. Baseball bats in someone’s yard? Bat decorations left over from Halloween? Sign for someone’s bat mitzvah? Even a birdBATh? No luck. I checked every sign, license plate, utility pole I passed for the letters BAT, with no success.

And then finally, I found it. A Little Free Library. With several children’s books inside it. One of which had a picture of a bat.

And then my phone shut down before I could take a picture. Apparently, its battery doesn’t like the cold. Fortunately, having learned my lesson after the incident with the coffee shop, I had brought my portable charger and got the phone running again, so I was able to take the picture.

Of course, after all that, my brake cable snapped just as I arrived home. But I’ve contacted a repair service to come by this afternoon. And meanwhile, I have my bat.

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[josh]

@drevil 204962 wrote:

1/12/21 – Bat

Here’s the Negro Leagues Memorial — it’s located by the field a number of teams, including the Philadelphia Stars, played at during the 30s and 40s. The player’s holding a baseball bat.
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Statue by Phil Sumpter

[komorebi]

@drevil 204962 wrote:

1/12/21 – Bat

On January 12, 1966, ABC premiered its Batman television series, starring Adam West as the caped crusader and Burt Ward as Robin.

Happy hunting!

1/12/2021 — Bat. Here’s my bike visiting Primetime Baseball LLC, which has crossed bats in its logo.

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[Serdar]

@drevil 204967 wrote:

I’ve tallied up to 1/10/21. If your score seems off, please send me a PM and let me know what you think the issue is.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kgsAzaLIXN-IJMjscyNnQTNvWEp__VzgGBSkJDYrTfs

A few notes:

1. For scoring, instead of giving a 0 for not meeting all the rules, I’m giving .25 points for making an effort. I’ve changed previous 0s to .25
2. The two biggest things that folks are getting dinged on are too many pics (only 1/day) or not including the date and the found object (or “Replying with Quote” my request for that day). Please know that it’s not punitive, it’s just so that I can keep track of things more easily on this completely manual scoring system
3. Another thing I dinged for were people bringing things from home. I can’t always tell if a snack bar was bought during the ride or brought from home so I’ll give the benefit of the doubt, but a quick release nut was most likely brought from home

Thanks everyone for playing! Still a lot of days left! 😎

Agreed on the quick release nut and learned my lesson.

[Author]

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