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

[Steve O]

Jan 26 – railway

From Long Bridge Park

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[CBGanimal]

1/26/2022 Railway. An abandoned rail between Torrejon and San Fernando

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[AlanA]

@Steve O 214784 wrote:

Jan 26 – railway

From Long Bridge Park

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This reminds me of the time when a friend was going for an artsy photo of a lake and bike. The bike fell in the water. She got a great picture and a story to tell after that.

[Steve O]

@AlanA 214787 wrote:

This reminds me of the time when a friend was going for an artsy photo of a lake and bike. The bike fell in the water. She got a great picture and a story to tell after that.

You shoulda seen me hop on the bike after I took the photo.

[tomacsh]

1/26/2022 Railway

Linden Lane FTW again; these tracks are utilized by the MARC train and various freight.

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[BianchiBoy]

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Like the sign says: Amtrak Northeast Corridor

[bikesnick]

1/26/2022 railroadway
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Arg! I remembered “railroad” as the hunt word. Oh well, it is along side the W&OD which was a railway.

[consularrider]

1/26/2022 – Railway

New York Interconnector Railroad – Completed the connection between the Pennsylvania and New Haven Railroad systems. The East River Arch Bridge (aka: Hell Gate Bridge) spans that channel of the East River.

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[ATTACH=CONFIG]26798[/ATTACH] The railway is elevated across Queens, Randalls/Wards Island, and into the Bronx

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[Jessica Hirschhorn]

Railway. Anacostia River Trail

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[Serdar]

1/26/2022 – Railway
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For railway today, I submit Wilkes Tunnel in Alexandria. It used to be a railway tunnel back in the day before trains lost a competition to cars and trucks. The rail line extending down Wilkes Street went through a long tunnel with walls extending between South Royal and Lee streets.

[DCAKen]

1/26/2022 Railway

The Shepherd Branch, a rail line down to the Blue Plains sewage treatment plant, was envisioned as the first leg of the DC Streetcar network. It was planned to give access to the Anacostia waterfront with not only the light rail line, but a parallel bike path. However, CSX reneged on the deal and DC backed out. The only part that was built was a test track next to Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling. What’s inexplicable is there is still power to one of the railway signals.

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[SusanG1693]

1/26/2022 Railway
Sunset over the Franconia train tracks
It is silly how much I love trains and train tracks. I think it is a bit of wanderlust and the wondering about where those tracks could take me….

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[rumipumi]

1/26 railway

Riverdale Park Train Station

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[BianchiBoy]

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Like the sign says: Amtrak NE Corridor

[Boomer Cycles]

1/26/22: Railway (Potomac Yard, Alexandria VA)

Interesting Tidbit: The first line to traverse the Potomac Yard property was built to link Alexandria and Washington. Completed in 1857, the Alexandria and Washington Railroad had six trains daily, leaving from a station on St. Asaph Street. Passengers found it a fast and convenient way to travel between the two cities and to connect with trains headed north. In addition, food and other products could be transported by rail for sale in Washington or transferred to northbound trains in the capital

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