Pointless Prize: 2022 Photo Scavenger Hunt

[rumipumi]

Rules:

This year we have two competitions: a main competition and participation prizes! You can compete in both simultaneously or just one.

• To compete for a participation prize you must (1) upload one or more photos of the item to your Strava ride for that day. (2) title your Strava ride with the hashtag #scavhunt. Please only hashtag ONE ride per day with #scavhunt. This hashtag will ensure you automatically show up and get ranked onto our scavhunt leaderboard (https://freezingsaddles.org/pointless/hashtag/scavhunt).
• To compete in the main competition (with one or more points awarded daily based on photo creativity, beauty and/or the capricious whims of Millie and Rumi) your entries must be posted HERE on the Forum in this thread (http://bikearlingtonforum.com/showthread.php?18934-Pointless-Prize-2022-Photo-Scavenger-Hunt)

Detailed rules are below:

1. Obvs, you should be a participant in Freezing Saddles ’22
2. It has to be on a bike ride on the day it was requested
3. For the main competition, it has to be posted in the Forum 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, we won’t count ones that aren’t posted for the day it was requested. That’s part of the challenge
4. The reason we say “for the day it is requested” is because we will release a weekly list of scavenger hunt items ahead of time, with one item for each day — but don’t take and/or post the pic until that day comes.
5. The Scavenger Hunt calendar will be updated weekly here: (https://tinyurl.com/2022scavhunt) Each (Saturday-Friday) week of items will have a common theme. We will always update it in advance of the week ahead so you have time to make plans!
6. Your Forum post must be titled with the date and the found object/theme. Example: IF the item for January 1st was “borscht”, you would title your Forum post: 1/1/2022 borscht
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. You don’t need to be in the photo, but if you are in it, it either has to be a selfie or done with a self-timer
9. Only one pic/day should be posted in the Forum. Please don’t pad by adding more than one pic/day. (You can include as many photos as you want on your strava ride.)
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 “2022”, 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.
12. Unless specified otherwise, your bike does not have to be in the photo.
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.
14. Filters are OK, but no obvious/blatant photoshopping… not that we would know anything about such things

Scoring

Scoring will be different for FS22 and there are two different prizes you are competing for simultaneously:

• Main Competition: To compete in this prize you must post in this Forum ( http://bikearlingtonforum.com/showthread.php?18934-Pointless-Prize-2022-Photo-Scavenger-Hunt ) complying with the rules above. Scoring will be arbitrary and capricious, and only one person per day is guaranteed to get a point each day. Hopefully this will cut down on some of the back-end work. How will you be the lucky point-winner for the day? Impress us with your creativity. Since we are publishing an entire week at a time, it should give you some time to come up with a creative idea. The rider with the most Main Competition points at the end of the competition is the… winner of the Main Competition.
• Participation Winners: There will also be participation awards for the top tier of daily participants. Tag one ride each day with #scavhunt, add your photo(s) of the item, and watch this leaderboard https://freezingsaddles.org/pointless/hashtag/scavhunt . This will be scored automatically by the leaderboard itself (one point per daily #scavhunt ride), is honor-based. Please do not tag more than one ride per day with the hashtag. Anyone in the top 10% of the leaderboard (based on number of rides, not mileage!!) at the end of Freezing Saddles will get a special prize!

Good Luck! Millie and Rumi

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[CBGanimal]

1/12/2022 Cicada Husk

Translated to Spanish the Cigarra isn’t present in Spain. I went across town to the Insect Park Museum in the town of El Escorial in hopes of getting in to see what they had. I took too many wrong turns and bad calls that I was too late and could only get the statue of the cigarra insect at the door of the Insect Park Museum.

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[HokieBeth]

1/12 Cicada husk

Thought for sure my dog Maddie had eaten all the live and dead cicadas in a 3 mile radius. Spotted this one in the ivy and leaves. (Dog shown separately)

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[rumipumi]

1/12 cicada husk

Lake artemesia

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[Catedrew]

1/12/2022 Cicada Husk.

In this case, three of them! (sideways post again. they were pointed UP the tree)

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[bikesnick]

1/12/2022 cicada husk
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(The tree was covered with them last year.)

[SFrank]

1/12/22
Cicada husk

I had to dig through fall leaves at Hayes Park in Arlington.

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[Boomer Cycles]

1/12/22: Cicada Husk

Pro tip: recon with a Beagle before your bike ride!

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[Judd]

1/12/2022 Cicada Husk

This guy was getting all Mission Impossible.

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[bikingjenn]

1/12/22-. #scavhunt for the elusive cicada. I hunted but did not find…looked nuts searching in the dirt at the base of trees and looking up tree trunks. Thought I found one in the V of an oak, but just leaves. Kids get a prize for playing. Do I? Found their burrow holes where they went for another 17-year nap

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[DCAKen]

1/12/2022 Cicada Husk

By the time I got out for my ride, it was too dark to find any husks. So I’ll look forward to 2038, the year of their next emergence

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[Indiana]

1/12/2022 Cicada Husk

I didn’t find any on my first ride and thought it might be impossible, but after seeing here that others found some… challenge on! After dinner I rode back out to some trees I had seen swarming with cicadas in the spring and used my super bright headlight to find a couple. A little worse for the wear, but under some leaves, there they were!
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[cvcalhoun]

1/12/2022 Cicada husk
Not the best specimen. It is the bottom part, covered in a spider web along with a leaf (top), attached to a shed, and rather the worse for wear. But since the only other cicada husk I knew of was in Columbia, and I wasn’t up to bicycling there, I took what I could get.

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[Dawn_F]

1/12/2022 Cicade Husk

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[Pablo]

1/13/22 Boulder
Reston North Park
I just noticed that the graffiti matches my bike!!
Those who seen me ride know that I love to match.
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[Jessica Hirschhorn]

Boulder. Entrance to Great Falls Park.

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