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

Topic

[consularrider]

1/17/2022 – Dumplings

Daa! Russian Dumplings (vareniki), 9th Ave, Hell’s Kitchen. Carry-out only, hot or frozen (choice of chicken, pork, or potato & mushroom).

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[LeftyLaura]

1/17-
Fist time for the dumpling, note bike in the window.

[karenbikes2@gmail.com]

1/17/2022 Dumpling
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Photo taken at home because it was just waaaay too windy to eat them/photograph them outside of Hunan Cafe where I bought them. I’m still not eating inside any restaurants but that isn’t even an option at Hunan Cafe, they’ve been doing carry out only since the original Covid lockdown.

[SusanG1693]

1/17/2022 Dumpling
Everything is yummy at Namaste in Rose Hill, including their chili momos (dumplings)….

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[Steve O]

1/17/2022 Dumpling

You can have your reg’lar old dumplings, but I’ve got a Dumpling Monster!

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[Serdar]

1/17/2022 – Dumplings
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District Dumplings at 2923 S Glebe Rd in Arlington

[DCAKen]

1/17/2022 Dumpling

Sadly, they were closed today. Some pan-fried dumplings would have been great on my cold ride today

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[Serdar]

@Boomer2U 213892 wrote:

1/17/22: Dumpling

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Looks like we were in the same place at different times today.

[Serdar]

@SusanG1693 213912 wrote:

1/17/2022 Dumpling
Everything is yummy at Namaste in Rose Hill, including their chili momos (dumplings)….

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This finding counts for #ImHer as well. Post it on this thread today and earn a point.

[HokieBeth]

1/17 Dumplings

A popular spot for photos today

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[Catedrew]

1/17/2022 – Dumpling

I went past the Bangkok 54 restaurant in S. Arlington on Columbia Pike, hoping I’d see a cool menu with a photo of a plate of dumplings, but no such luck. Then went to Mrs. Chen’s kitchen, and still no luck! Finally went past the ramen shop and did manage to snap a photo of their menu on the outside wall, which DID have dumplings!

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[AlanA]

1/17/2022 Dumplings

When the going gets tough, find a Dollar General along the ride.

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[Kbikeva]

1/17/2022 Dumplings

If you’d asked for tamales, this would have been easy. I finally went into a so-called Japanese restaurant. They did have dumplings on the menu, and they tasted okay, but the texture was a bit strange. When I was a kid we lived in Japan and I loved going to the train station and getting freshly steamed “nikumanju”. (I have no idea whether that’s the actual word but that’s what it sounded like when we asked for it.) Since returning to the US I have spent my entire adult life hoping to find them again. Not today.

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[bikesnick]

1/17/2022 dumplings
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Fahrenheit Asian (McLean, VA)

[Indiana]

1/17/2022 Dumplings
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Mulan dumpling showed up in Google maps, which led me to learn more about this cool sounding local company
https://www.mulandumpling.com/
“In 2016, co-owner Roya Shadravan had discovered she had a brain tumor. Luckily she survived the operation with no harmful symptoms. The event changed her and her partner Kristy Lam’s lives. We became extra conscious about the food we ate, and it’s health benefits. We found it challenging to find convenient, international cuisine that was also healthy. As a result, we left our established careers and created Mulan Dumpling. We put our heart and soul into making a variety of delicious dumplings with fresh and natural ingredients.”

I haven’t tried them yet, but Union Kitchen is one of the places you can buy them locally.

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