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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[AlanA]

2/2/2022 – Groundhog Day.

I emerged from my burrow this morning to go for a ride. I saw my shadow (and my bikes) thanks to clear weather. I did not retreat to my den, but instead enjoyed 6 more hours of riding my bike.

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[rumipumi]

@Kbikeva 215373 wrote:

Was that artwork on the walls of the school? Wow!

It was a printed backdrop

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[rumipumi]

2/2/22 groundhog day

My friend Lissa hit a groundhog riding her ebike on the GAP last fall. While she and her knee have healed, I am sure she would not care to repeat her particular groundhog day.

And no, I don’t know what happened to the groundhog she ran over, though it did survive to scamper away.

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[camiller]

2/2/2022 Groundhog Day

I kept my eyes open for a groundhog on my ride today. I finally saw one but it ran back into this hole before I could get my camera out to take his picture. He refused to come back out for a photo shoot.

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[AlanA]

@Kbikeva 215448 wrote:

I rode out to the new theater (Alamo Drafthouse) where they advertised (on line) that they’ll be showing Groundhog Day this evening. I was hoping there would be something . . . ANYTHING that would be suitable for the scavenger hunt photo. What I didn’t know is that the road it’s on is under SERIOUS construction. Playing frogger on the roundabouts was nothing compared to getting into the parking lot so I could go look for the little rodent. It included zillions of fast moving cars and trucks, a newly laid entrance that was still warm as I walked across it, and carrying my bike over sand so as not to accumulate goathead thorns.

Nothing depicting a groundhog or the title or anything. So I went to my back-up plan and stopped at the grocery store on the way back.

Ground Hog Day

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Hah! I was thinking of taking a picture of some Ground Chuck beef. Since is groundhog is also called a woodchuck. I thought it would be a good play on words.

[Indiana]

2/2/2022 Groundhog Day
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See the sign for “GROUND” in front of the shadows of our hogs? Ahem, bikes?
I can’t believe someone saw a real live groundhog!

[Catedrew]

2/2/2022 – Groundhog Day

Well, a pig this big is a HOG, and, well, it’s kind of ABOVE the ground, so…… we have an Above-the-groundhog

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[SFrank]

2/2/22
Groundhog Day
The groundhog saw his shadow and so did I!

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[cvcalhoun]

2/2 /2022 Groundhog Day
I assume the Phil of this coffee shop at 7247 Woodmont Avenue in Bethesda is the Punxsutawney one.

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[karenbikes2@gmail.com]

2/2/2022 Groundhog Day
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Two ground hogs seeing their shadows! (Use your imagination :rolleyes:)

[bikingjenn]

2/2/22 Groundhog Day I am a numbers gal and love fun strings of numbers. Looked long and hard for 2222 but found 222 which is cool because Groundhog Day keeps repeating. So, 222 as a palindrome is 222 so like Groundhog Day, it keeps repeating over and over again. Taken on tonight’s ride which currently will not upload from my Garmin.

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[Kbikeva]

@bikingjenn 215481 wrote:

2/2/22 Groundhog Day I am a numbers gal and love fun strings of numbers. Looked long and hard for 2222 but found 222 which is cool because Groundhog Day keeps repeating. So, 222 as a palindrome is 222 so like Groundhog Day, it keeps repeating over and over again. Taken on tonight’s ride which currently will not upload from my Garmin.

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And is anyone else here young enough to remember “Room 222”?

[BianchiBoy]

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You need ground hog to make Grandma Loreno’s lasagna.

[Sophie CW]

2/2/2022 – Groundhog Day
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Home state of the infamous Punxsutawney Phil.

[AlanA]

@Kbikeva 215483 wrote:

And is anyone else here young enough to remember “Room 222”?

Don’t you mean ‘old’ enough? I watched that all the time.

[Author]

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