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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[bikesnick]

1/31/21 – “Henri Desgrange” subanagram

“gardener”
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[CBGanimal]

@drevil 206708 wrote:

1/31/21 – “Henri Desgrange” subanagram (5-letter or more word, not the object)

I found a different Henri but it works!

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[camiller]

1/31/21 – “Henri Desgrange” subanagram

I got lucky with this one. The assisted living community is practically around the corner from my home. In addition, they had a lovely metal rooster, that I have never noticed, near the sign so I also got #publicartfinder.

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[camiller]

@cvcalhoun 206712 wrote:

1/31/21 – “Henri Desgrange” subanagram (5-letter or more word, not the object)
Range. Which I think may even qualify for the bonus. And I got it in before the snow.

Of course, as soon as I got this shot set up, a voice came over the loudspeaker informing me that the location was closed, and that if I did not vacate the premises immediately, I’d be arrested. Apparently, their alarm system doesn’t recognize the vital necessity of getting out just after midnight and finding an anagram of Henri Desgrange. I decided it was the better part of valor to vacate the premises immediately.

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I detect a theme to your adventures of capturing photos for Drevil’s game. You seem to like living on the edge of needing to have someone bail you out of the pokey. 😜

[Kbikeva]

1/31/21 Henri Desgrange subanagram

For my sleaze miles I sidled up to a WMATA facility. I was pretty sure I could locate danger there. Mission accomplished.

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https://www.strava.com/activities/4713015521

[Serdar]

@drevil 206708 wrote:

1/31/21 – “Henri Desgrange” subanagram (5-letter or more word, not the object)

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I spotted Toyota Sienna on my ride today. It is hard to see but the word is there.
https://www.strava.com/activities/4713200302

[cvcalhoun]

@camiller 206744 wrote:

I detect a theme to your adventures of capturing photos for Drevil’s game. You seem to like living on the edge of needing to have someone bail you out of the pokey. 

It will shortly be another pointless prize: Bike to the pokey to spring cvcalhoun!

[Kbikeva]

@cvcalhoun 206751 wrote:

It will shortly be another pointless prize: Bike to the pokey to spring cvcalhoun!

They say a good friend will bail you out of the pokey. A TRUE friend will be in there with you.

[cvcalhoun]

@Serdar 206718 wrote:

David, please, ignore my dislike of your post. That was due to my inexperience with the forum features. I appreciate your answer and am still puzzled about the clue. If we need to decipher those pixelated words, that will not relate to riding and finding it. So that does not seem to comply with the rules.

The rules for pointless prizes are whatever the initiator of the particular pointless prize contest says they are. Up to and including changing the rules in the middle of the game.

Two things to remember about this:

1. Freezing Saddles isn’t meant to be a highly competitive enterprise. It’s meant to get people out biking and having fun. Hell, we don’t even know what the prize for this contest is! So best recommendation is to relax and enjoy it, rather than getting too hung up on winning it.
2. There is only so much you can control. For example, I’ve found the required object every day of the competition. But I’ve still missed out on some points due to not getting the bonus points (and the initial description of the contest didn’t mention bonus points). Similarly, I have no control over how many people “like” my posts–and likes are a big part of the scoring. There is no way even to figure out where I stand, inasmuch as people can go back and like posts from weeks ago, and I’m not going to go through 118 pages of posts every day to count up the likes. So rather than focus on winning, I focus on the things I can control–getting out there and finding something every day. That means I bike every day, and I bike farther than I otherwise would. That’s a win for me, regardless of whether I win the competition.

[LeftyLaura]

1/31/21 – “Henri Desgrange” subanagram

No snow in NJ,so you could say Green Acres, but leftover snow from last week. Where have I landed?

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[AlanA]

@LeftyLaura 206756 wrote:

1/31/21 – “Henri Desgrange” subanagram

No snow in NJ,so you could say Green Acres, but leftover snow from last week. Where have I landed?

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Green Acres is the place to be!

[LeftyLaura]

@AlanA 206757 wrote:

Green Acres is the place to be!

Farm living is the life for me

[Hannah Lili]

1/31/21- Anagram for Henri Desgrange
I found *endangered* but the only word that would fit with the anagram is ‘endanger’….probably doesn’t count for the rules but I thought I’d at least try. Hope everyone safely enjoyed the snow today!

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[bigredboiler]

1/31/21 – Henri Desgrange Anagram

GARDENERS

Sticking with the common theme based on garden for the day. The Sunny Garden at Bon Air Rose Garden wasn’t so sunny today….

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[mrhappy_onabike]

1/31/21 – Henri Desgrange Anagram

ENGINEERS

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