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

[Boomer Cycles]

1/23/22: waterway (4 Mile Run)

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[CaseyKane50]

1/23/2022 Waterway

Alexandria Canal

The Alexandria Canal (1843 – 1886] connected Alexandria to the C&O Canal via the Aqueduct Bridge in Georgetown. Part of the route is now Eads Street in Arlington.

[Judd]

1/23/2022 Waterway

Giant icecicles over Four Mile Run.

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[consularrider]

1/23/2022 – Waterway

East River from the Esplanade at E 84t St by Carl Schurtz Park

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[SFrank]

1/23/22
Waterway

The mighty Ohio River from the New Albany side.

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[SusanG1693]

1/23/22. WATERWAY
Dogue Creek as it passes the Mount Vernon Grist Mill & Distillery on its way to the Potomac. It widens significantly just a little downstream and forms the basis for the Ft. Belvoir Marina. My local state senator organizes an annual clean up of Dogue Creek further upstream which pulls out TONS of trash.

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[Catedrew]

1/23/2022 – Waterway

So, I didn’t stray far from home today, and the only waterway near me was on the street. Well, it IS a waterway, and water travels down this waterway into the water collections tunnels under the street. Although in this case, the water is in a freezing state.

OH NO! My trike has broken through the ice and fallen into this waterway!!

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[AlanA]

1/23/2002 – Waterway

Another day I had so many pictures to choose from, but I’ll go with this one.

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[camiller]

1/23/2022 Waterway This waterway is in Long Branch Stream Valley Park in Fairfax. It was so nice of the folks on my ride to stop and let me play with my boat in the waterway. My boat didn’t float very well so I’ll need to take it back to the shipyard for repair.

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[Serdar]

1/23/2022 – Waterway
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A blurry photo of the Potomac River, which is the most extensive waterway in the Washington DC Area

[Kbikeva]

1/23/2022 Waterway

When you’re in high desert in the southwest, waterways are hard to come by. Yes, the Rio Grande runs through here forming the southern US border, but in this area it is neither “Grande” or much of a “Rio”. Nonetheless water is essential, as this sculpture (Water by Ilan Averbuch) in front of the fire station and a new water tower depict.

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[bigredboiler]

1-23-22 Waterway

South Platte River.
A major waterway in Nebraska, and this is the start of it in Denver.
You can navigate via paddleboard and innertube at this point, but not much more.

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[Indiana]

1/23/2022 Waterway

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Anacostia River. According to the Anacostia Watershed Society, “The word Anacostia is derived from the Nacotchtank Indian word anaquash. Literally translated into English the word means village trading center.”
https://www.anacostiaws.org/our-watershed/aws-faqs.html

[El Swift]

1/23/2022 Waterway

One of the off-the-beaten-path spillway locks near lock 5 along the C&O.

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[AlanA]

@SFrank 214508 wrote:

1/23/22
Waterway

The mighty Ohio River from the New Albany side.

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FYI. There is also a New Albany, OH! It appears as though you are in the IN one, though. I drove through Louisville once, but don’t recall seeing any signs for New Albany.

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