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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[bigredboiler]

1-17 dumplings

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[cvcalhoun]

1/17/2022 Dumpling
This one was tough. I had to find a place with actual curbside service, not just take-out. (I found City Lights of Bethesda.) Then their website for ordering was broken. So I called to order. Then my e-bike, which I had intended to use, wouldn’t turn on. By the time I’d finished struggling with it and then giving up and moving all my lights, etc., to my regular bike, City Lights was calling to find out where I was. Then I realized I had put my helmet down somewhere and couldn’t find it, so I had to dig out an old helmet from the back of the shed. And then I headed out into a high headwind.

Let’s just say that my #publicartfinder for today was a pig flying. Which seemed appropriate.

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[camiller]

1/17/2022 Dumpling , I love Freezing Saddles. Because of this game I learned about a (new to me) restaurant near my home. YU Noodles in Fairfax Centre off of Lee Highway.

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[Steve O]

@cvcalhoun 213961 wrote:

1/17/2022 Dumpling
This one was tough. I had to find a place with actual curbside service, not just take-out. (I found City Lights of Bethesda.) Then their website for ordering was broken. So I called to order. Then my e-bike, which I had intended to use, wouldn’t turn on. By the time I’d finished struggling with it and then giving up and moving all my lights, etc., to my regular bike, City Lights was calling to find out where I was. Then I realized I had put my helmet down somewhere and couldn’t find it, so I had to dig out an old helmet from the back of the shed. And then I headed out into a high headwind.

Let’s just say that my #publicartfinder for today was a pig flying. Which seemed appropriate.

Might be worth sharing in the “extra mile” thread

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[karenbikes2@gmail.com]

@camiller 213962 wrote:

1/17/2022 Dumpling , I love Freezing Saddles. Because of this game I learned about a (new to me) restaurant near my home. YU Noodles in Fairfax Centre off of Lee Highway.

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Looks to be worth a ride there!

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[Kbikeva]

@Indiana 213957 wrote:

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.

Probably a meningioma (non-cancerous but invasive). I had one and survived the surgery too. I was astonished to find out they’re very common in women over 40 and often undiagnosed until they’ve gotten really big and affected balance/hearing/etc. OR they get discovered when one has an MRI for something else that happens. So if you have a bike crash and they say, “Get the MRI”, there may be more than one good reason to do so.

[bikingjenn]

1/17/22 Dumplings–scabbing is the inspiration for this ride. Started and ended at District Dumplings on S Glebe St in Arlington

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[Shawnbeast]

1/17 – Dumplings

Tortellini are definitely dumplings, and I needed some at the store tonight.

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[sszibler]

1/17/22 dumplings union market

Was some administrator messing with the site right before midnight? I hit the submit button well before midnight and the screen went white. Had to sign into the site and make a new post (the one I was submitting vanished) and submit that. The second time it’s also finicky about uploading the same photo again. You suddenly have to drag it and hope that actually works eventually. It nuts! But as long as I can participate by putting the photo on my Strava ride, I guess I’m good. It’s just so frustrating and you can’t be considered for the artsy prize.

[HokieBeth]

1/18 Pie

Baby pies at Firehook Bakery

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[Catedrew]

1/18/2022 – Pie

Today’s photo scavenger hunt brought to you by ACME PIE CO! I was excited to ride a few blocks down to Acme, because I LOVE their pies. What a major disappointment to discover that they were CLOSED today! Awwww! I’ll just have to go back another day to get a delicious sampling. Acme Pies is located at 2803 Columbia Pike, in Arlington.

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[CBGanimal]

1/18/2022 Pie in Spanish is Tarta. I found a cute little Tartalia in Alcala, Spain. I got a slice of cheesecake.

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[CaseyKane50]

1/18/2022 Pie

[karenbikes2@gmail.com]

1/18/2022 Pie
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Delicious pies for sale at Amphora Bakery in Herndon, 294 Sunset Park Dr. They didn’t have any of their small pies today and since my visit to Amphora was near the start of my ride, didn’t think a whole pie would travel well in my pannier. I got a mini chocolate raspberry cheesecake instead. This is a European style bakery and I can promise you, based on experience, that anything you get from Amphora will be scrumptious.

[bikesnick]

1/18/2022 pie
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Pizza pie at Rocco’s (McLean, VA)

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