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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[smb9600]

@CBGanimal 206000 wrote:

Wow it looks like a Jersey I have!!

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Oh yeah! The Crystal City one???

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[LeftyLaura]

1/22/2021 – polka dots

Demure, squirreled in the yard, and all day!

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[Serdar]

@drevil 205982 wrote:

1/22/21 – Polka dots

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Found these polka dot in Rosslyn today.
https://www.strava.com/activities/4664140684

[HokieBeth]

1/22/21 Polka dots

South Eads in Arlington

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[Nadine]

I never remember to check this contest early enough. So of course on my ride break today this walks by. A day late so no points but it cracked me up so I hadda share

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[camiller]

1/22/2021 Polka Dots

When I left for my ride I had no idea where I could find polka dots. I decided to head to Fairfax Corner to do a little window shopping. As I was waiting at a corner for the walk sign I realized I was standing on polka dots. I then found a bank of meters in the side of a condo building that looked like polka dots. After I got to the shopping center I found more traditional polka dots on clothing and a mural. It wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be. Just because it is a little different I’m submitting my picture of the meters.

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[drevil]

1/23/21 – Pie

I always assumed 3/14 was National Pie Day, but I was off by one letter. That’s Pi Day, but in 1976, a school teacher in Boulder, CO declared his birthday on January 23 to be Pie day, and the rest is history.

On your ride, seek and photograph pie, then if you’d like, share with the rest of us where you can get this deliciousness

Happy hunting!

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[cvcalhoun]

1/22/21 Polka dots
I outsmarted myself with this one. I searched Google for anything resembling polka dots around Bethesda. Business with polka dots in the name? (None found.) Public art with polka dots? (I think I checked every piece of public art in Bethesda, and there weren’t any with polka dots in them.) Store with polka dot decorations? (There was one, but it was being reported closed.) Nursery schools? (There weren’t any I could find with polka dots on anything on the playground, and I thought peering into windows at a nursery school would probably get me into even more trouble than Freezing Saddles is worth.) Clothing stores with polka dots on clothing in the window? (Most likely ones were inside malls, and I don’t want to be inside a mall during a pandemic.)

I was about to give up, when I suddenly had a vague recollection that when I found balloons, at least one had had polka dots. I checked the photo, and there they were! Obviously, I had to go back a second time, but at least I knew before starting out that I’d find them. So I give you… grandpa’s polka dots.

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[Kbikeva]

@Nadine 206087 wrote:

I never remember to check this contest early enough. So of course on my ride break today this walks by. A day late so no points but it cracked me up so I hadda share

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Nadine, I always see “more” the next day! If you ever do post on the day for points, make sure you do one of the following: Either put the header in (date) (subject) or post it as a “reply with quote” of whatever Dr. Evil posted as the subject, or it won’t count

[Nadine]

@Kbikeva 206111 wrote:

Nadine, I always see “more” the next day! If you ever do post on the day for points, make sure you do one of the following: Either put the header in (date) (subject) or post it as a “reply with quote” of whatever Dr. Evil posted as the subject, or it won’t count

[emoji15]Oooh thanks. I have posted for points as coupla times and probably haven’t done those things. Will go back & edit!

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[CaseyKane50]

1/23/2021 – Pie

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Pies from Maribeth’s Bakery at the Farmers Market at Market Square, Alexandria.

[camiller]

1/23/2021 – Pie

Savory pies (Boreq and Pogcha) from Fairfax Bakery American/Mediterranean Cafe

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[accordioneur]

1/23/21 – Pie

Well, it’s been a tough couple of days for Scavenger Hunting. Two days ago I went looking for an Adidas logo at Soccer Kick but didn’t spot one – only to later see someone else post an Adidas logo from that very same store. Yesterday I was about to head out for polka dots, but my wife distracted me and I never made it out to hunt dots (I consoled myself by playing a few polkas on the accordion). Today I figured I could easily kill two birds with one stone and do some pie spotting on while on a ride to pick up bagels, but pie was harder to come by than I had anticipated. Leaving the bagel store (no pie there) I looked in the window of Corner Bakery – but again, no pie, so I headed for Living the Pie Life, where I knew there’d be pie – but it turns out they don’t open until 10, and had no pies visible through the window. No worries. I had a backup plan to go to Metro 29 Diner across the street, which is always chockablock with delicious pies – but it turns out they are closed due to COVID. I finally had to settle for supermarket quality pie at the Harris Teeter.

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[Steve O]

So Acme Pie Company is pretty close to me. This’ll be easy!

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D’oh!!
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Thankfully I have a bike buddy.

[mrhappy_onabike]

1/23/21 – Pie
@Steve O 206126 wrote:

Thankfully I have a bike buddy.

That’s right!
After Steve O’s fail I forced him to make a detour so I could nab today’s scavenger photo.

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(“Made with simple and real ingredients,” it says. What would not-real ingredients be, I wonder?)

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