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

[tomacsh]

1/28/21–Rum
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RUM on my back, everyday since 2016; I may never REMOVE my message!

[cvcalhoun]

1/28/21–Rum
Montgomery County isn’t big on rum. But it is big on specialty cheese.

This was another day of running around in circles. Spectrum Labs had closed permanently. Spectrum Pools LLC was supposedly in a particular building, but the building had only individual residents’ names, not business names. The Spectrum Center got closed down when the owner “voluntarily” surrendered her license due to an investigation for fraud. Spectrum Family Medicine turned up when I searched for “Spectrum Bethesda Maryland,” but turned out to be most of the way to Gaithersburg. So “crumbles” it is!

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[Brownws]

1/27 Rum

Local Liquor store

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[Boomer Cycles]

1/28/21 – Rum

Afrohead Rum, the most expensive “top shelf” bottle in my local ABC store

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[camiller]

1/28/2021 Rum

Menu from Starbucks drive-thru – Mocha Cookie cRUMble

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[Kbikeva]

1/28/2021

This area in Reston is slated for redevelopment. I’m guessing they’ll change the name as the context of this word has changed quite a bit since the 80’s. Can you imagine saying, ‘Oh yeah I live on the Spectrum?”

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[bikesnick]

1/28/2021 – Rum

A bottle of Falls Rum at Falls Church Distillers, a veteran-owned, family-operated craft distillery in Falls Church, VA.

There was nothing in the windows for a photograph and the door was locked. I knocked and a very friendly employee told me they were closed. She patiently listened to my scavenger hunt quest and came back with a bottle of rum for my picture.

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[Mtansill]

1/28/2021: Rum

The ever-popular d(rum)s.
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[accordioneur]

1/28/2021: Rum

I was RUMinating this morning while out on a rum … I mean run … trying to think of “rum” words, when suddenly it dawned on me that the word “rum” is all around us thanks to the recent presidential election. I knew just where to find it, on a truck I see all the time parked near Westover. This afternoon I needed to make a trip to the local hardware store (quaxing at Ayers, a local business) and stopped along the way to grab this photo. I mean. he’s got to be useful for something, right?

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[bigredboiler]

1/28/21 – Rum

Rum vs cRUMbl cookies….tough call. Maybe I need both?
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[AlanA]

1/28/21 – Rum

I was pretty sure I could find a t”RUM”p sign where I was riding today. I was correct! I hid behind a bush and hoped no one saw me take this picture.

And feel free to “dislike” this post.

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[Nadine]

1/28/21 – rum

Boy I hadda think about this one. Pretty sure the best rum in town is at my house – from when I visited PR last year. (They don’t export 3 star Barrilito.) So I biked to McLean. To TRUMan lane. [emoji16][emoji1744]

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[smb9600]

1/28/21 – Rum

What is “over proof” rum???

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[AlanA]

@Kbikeva 206515 wrote:

1/27/2021

This area in Reston is slated for redevelopment. I’m guessing they’ll change the name as the context of this word has changed quite a bit since the 80’s. Can you imagine saying, ‘Oh yeah I live on the Spectrum?”

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I saw a lot of Dead shows at the Spectrum. and saw many parts of the spectrum while at those shows..

[AlanA]

@smb9600 206527 wrote:

1/28/21 – Rum

What is “over proof” rum???

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I can’t enlarge your photo, so I’m just guessing that this Rum is over 100 proof. Most booze is 80+/- proof. Bacardi 151 would certainly be overproof (although, I don’t ever recall them labeling it that way).

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