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]

2/6/21 – Ice Cream or Frozen Yogurt
From Sarah’s Handmade Ice Cream in Wildwood Shopping Center, Bethesda. It was in fact ice cream for breakfast, as I hadn’t eaten before I biked over there.

Okay, I’m not good at taking selfies. Certainly not good enough to get one with me, ice cream, and my bicycle. However, the receipt provides evidence that my bicycle was there.

And I have to say, if you order curbside service and specify a bicycle with orange bags as your vehicle, you don’t even have to call when you arrive. Employee saw the bicycle pull up, and came out with the ice cream practically before I’d gotten off the bike.

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[CBGanimal]

2/6/21 Ice Cream or Frozen Yogurt
This hunt gave me the chance to celebrate my nephew’s soccer win!

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[komorebi]

@drevil 207169 wrote:

2/6/21 – Ice Cream or Frozen Yogurt

2/6/2021 — ice cream. Specifically, matcha Oreo ice cream from SnoCream at TheBlock, in Annandale:

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[karenbikes2]

@drevil 207169 wrote:

2/6/21 – Ice Cream or Frozen Yogurt

Weirdly enough, this year the 6th of February – one of the coldest months in the US – is both National Frozen Yogurt Day and Eat Ice Cream for Breakfast Day.

On your ride, capture ice cream or frozen yogurt: it can be the thing, a storefront, or a sign. If one of the two last options, it should have the words “Ice Cream” or “Frozen Yogurt”.

If you want 2 points (total), make your photo a selfie holding the ice cream or frozen yogurt. If you don’t want to doxx yourself, cover your face up with your mask/gaiter/buff.

Happy hunting!

Pic below is a real jersey for the kids’ segment of the local DC-Area mountain bike club (MORE).
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If you want to see the jersey in action or just feel warmer, here’s a vid I made a couple of years ago at one of our summer picnics. It has at least a handful of Bike Arlington regulars. See if you can find any https://vimeo.com/343114786

2/6/21
Ice Cream or Frozen Yoghurt

Had to get my ride done before work so alas, B&J wasn’t open.

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[Kbikeva]

2/6/21 Ice Cream

A directive to go eat ice cream is one I’m happy to obey! Unfortunately, I can’t get the photo to flip right side up — so just imagine I was so wild with joy that I flipped out.

The place I went is called Sweet Mama’s in Fairfax. It’s just off Jermantown Road near Rt. 50. (I also spied a bakery I want to go back to try!). The flavor I got today was called “S’more”. No cone because their freezer wasn’t making the ice cream cold enough to stay on a cone.

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[LeftyLaura]

1/6/2021 Ice cream, yes lots of lickers on the sidewalk

So, Denville was hit hard by hurricane Irene. After they reopened they had flood mud flavor. But they reopened! This is the town where Bruce Weber turn left to go to NYC after crossing the country in Like is a Wheel. cute town but I couldn’t find the bike shop, mostly electrics and fluff, I think the pandemic got them. Also, we must not speak about Jersey drivers!

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https://www.nj.com/morris/2012/08/denville_businesses_re-emerge.html

[LhasaCM]

2/6/21 – Ice Cream or Frozen Yogurt

So this photo is slightly less illegal than my first one, but not quite following the rules since Rita’s sells “Frozen Custard” or “Ice”. And of course they’re closed since it’s February.

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[bikesnick]

2/6/21 – Ice Cream or Frozen Yogurt

Lil City Creamery (Falls Church, VA)
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[Serdar]

@drevil 207169 wrote:

2/6/21 – Ice Cream or Frozen Yogurt

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Ice Cream at The Fairy Godmother in Alexandria
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[rumipumi]

2/6 ice cream

Red bean almond cookie cone from Jubilee

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[Indiana]

2/6/21 – Ice Cream or Frozen Yogurt

Captain Cookie and the Milkman! At Tastemakers food hall near the end of the Metropolitan Branch trail.
Ice cream sandwich treat for kidMBear after a ten-miler.
She recommends dark cherry ice cream sandwiched between a snickerdoodle and a double chocolate cookie (visible by the truck tire).
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[mrhappy_onabike]

2/6/21 Ice Cream or Frozen Yogurt

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[LisaE]

2/6/21 – Ice Cream or Frozen Yogurt

Lil City Creamery in Falls Church

I was going to treat my husband to some ice cream so that I could get the selfie, but alas the Creamery was closed.

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[Steve O]

2/6/21 – Ice Cream or Frozen Yogurt

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[DCAKen]

2/6/21 – Ice Cream or Frozen Yogurt

At Ice Cream Jubilee, a hometown DC parlor, I went for the hometown flavor…Marionberry with sprinkles

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