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

[cvcalhoun]

1/27/21 – Tunnel
Picking my best one was tough this time. Most artistic was of the tunnel that extends from the bus bay at Bethesda Metro to the shops on the other side of Wisconsin Avenue (although the homeless guy who was sleeping in the entrance to that one got up and questioned me about why I was taking pictures of the tunnel, and none of my explanations seemed to make any sense to him). But from a sentimental perspective, I had to go with the tunnel that used to connect the Georgetown Branch Trail to the Capital Crescent Trail, but is now just a big construction site.

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[Nadine]

@cvcalhoun 206414 wrote:

1/27/21 – Tunnel
Picking my best one was tough this time. Most artistic was of the tunnel that extends from the bus bay at Bethesda Metro to the shops on the other side of Wisconsin Avenue (although the homeless guy who was sleeping in the entrance to that one got up and questioned me about why I was taking pictures of the tunnel, and none of my explanations seemed to make any sense to him). But from a sentimental perspective, I had to go with the tunnel that used to connect the Georgetown Branch Trail to the Capital Crescent Trail, but is now just a big construction site.

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That is a sad reminder.
Did you really get up and go disturb a homeless guy’s quiet time to do that in the middle of the night? [emoji848][emoji38] I was expecting to the first entry to be coming from Spain.

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[cvcalhoun]

@Nadine 206415 wrote:

That is a sad reminder.
Did you really get up and go disturb a homeless guy’s quiet time to do that in the middle of the night? [emoji848][emoji38] I wad expecting to the first entry to be coming from Spain.

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I tried not to disturb him. But I suspect he wasn’t actually asleep yet. He got up quite quickly and started asking me questions.

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[smb9600]

1/26/21 – Wayne Gretzky

Enter

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[bigredboiler]

1/27/21 – Tunnel

A good excuse to go find a real tunnel I had not visited before. The one under the train tracks and Telegraph Rd in Alexandria.
I must say, it was well lit at least. I was wondering what I would find in the dark.

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[josh]

@drevil 206400 wrote:

1/27/21 – Tunnel

Here’s the Spring Garden Street Tunnel which goes under the Art Museum (it seems ripe for some National Treasure type stuff):
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Apparently, the right lane is unused (at least 6 years ago), and I might try and head back down for cooler pictures.

[accordioneur]

1/27/21 – Tunnel

When I was growing up, Manhattanites would derisively refer to those of us in the outer boroughs as “bridge and tunnel people”, since we had to cross a body of water to get to the Edenic island where “real New Yorkers” lived. We outer borough people, in turn, looked down upon those who lived in the faceless suburbs beyond the city line. As to the rest of America, pretty much everyone in the New York metropolitan area knew it to be a pizza-less wasteland made up of sparsely populated prairies and “cities” that wished they were New York, populated by bumpkins of various ilk. All that notwithstanding, New York City, which is a collection of land masses separated by significant bodies of water, did contain a lot of bridges and tunnels.

I no longer consider myself a “bridge and tunnel person”. For one thing, the outer boroughs – parts of Brooklyn in particular – have become some of the hippest hot spots in the city, and it is the Manhattanites who have to cross a bridge or tunnel to get to the coolest parts of the city. For another, I now live in Arlington, where the topography does not call for nearly as many bridges and tunnels. Which leads to a conundrum of where to find a tunnel on my morning ride.

Fortunately, there is a tunnel-rich network hidden in plain sight all around us. Not transportation, but storm water management. Over the years I’ve poked into various storm water tunnels and they really can be impressive. Some are, in fact, big enough to drive a truck through. The one I photographed today is not – but a person with a reasonable BMI could crawl through it.

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[CaseyKane50]

1/27/2021 – Tunnel

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The Humpback Bridge Tunnel that connects Columbia Island (and Boundary Channel Drive) with the Mount Vernon Trail. There is a parallel tunnel to the east that will one day provide a more direct connection to Boundary Channel Drive and beyond.

[bikedavid]

@drevil 206400 wrote:

1/27/21 – Tunnel

Tunneling through Rock Creek

[komorebi]

@drevil 206400 wrote:

1/27/21 – Tunnel

1/27/2021 — tunnel. Here’s my bike at the Duke Street Tunnel, a ped/bike tunnel underneath Duke Street in Alexandria that connects the King Street metro station and the Carlyle neighborhood. Artist Mike McConnell created a series of 12 nature-inspired artworks for the recessed areas inside the tunnel, some of which you can see in the photo.

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[DCAKen]

1/27/2021 – Tunnel

The dreaded Zoo tunnel in Rock Creek Park. This is a part of my daily commute and when I time it right, I will hop on the road heading north (morning rush). I will always hop on the road when I head south.

One of these years the bypass through the zoo will finally reopen. Hopefully construction will start this year

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[CBGanimal]

1/27/21 – Tunnel

This tunnel goes under the Madrid (Barajas) airport and is about 1.5 miles long. It connects the towns of Paraquellos, Los Baracoles and Cobeña to east side of Madrid! And yes that is a bike lane that goes all the way thru both ways!

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[Kbikeva]

1/27/21 Tunnel

In Reston we have numerous underpasses or tunnels, part of the original founder’s vision to connect neighborhoods via pathways rather than roads. Some are decorated (public art) and others are lesser used these days, especially with the kids out of school. This one is close to my house and needs some art love. In the meantime, it’s a good set for a scary home made movie if kids do that anymore!

It’s also a good #FSWormhole

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[Steve O]

1/27/21 – Tunnel

This is the popular and well known Crystal City Connector tunnel. Extremely useful in non-pandemic summers, because passing through takes you to the Crystal City Water Park and Fridays at the Fountain.

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[LisaE]

1/28/21 – Tunnel

My tunnel is not big enough for a human but I bet plenty of squirrels or other critters have made their ways through these “tunnels” that are just waiting to be placed into the ground.

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