Pointless Prize – ParkFinder

[AlanA]

Do I have to do any specific activity in the park? Or is just a visit sufficient enough? What about multiple parks on a ride?

Usually the only thing I do while on a bike ride at a park is use a port-a-potty, or maybe ride the bike around a trail. Hiking or other activities in bike shoes doesn’t work very well for me.

[camiller]

@AlanA 196263 wrote:

Do I have to do any specific activity in the park? Or is just a visit sufficient enough? What about multiple parks on a ride?

Usually the only thing I do while on a bike ride at a park is use a port-a-potty, or maybe ride the bike around a trail. Hiking or other activities in bike shoes doesn’t work very well for me.

Good questions. My intent was was really to give people ideas for a destination, find new parks that you may want to return to another day or find a way to get to some of the better known parks by bicycle. As such, you do not need to do any specific activity at the park except to take a picture of the park sign with your bike in the picture.

Regarding getting credit for going to multiple parks on a ride I am going to need to consult with the technology folks. I don’t have any issue with visiting multiple parks. I just don’t know what is required to identify and count the ride/park.

[SarahBee]

#FS2020Parkfinder Day #1

1. Spirit of Justice Park which has no sign. I’m going to talk to someone about this on Monday.
2. West Potomac Park
3. East Potomac Park. Side note- same friggin location just one half is West and the other East. Makes no sense to me, but did a small loop just in case.
4. Gravelly Point Park. Yes technically this is a park according to the NPS sign fine print.
5. WOD Regional Park.
6. Glen Carlyn Park
7. East Falls Church Park

I love how in DC just by tooling around your hit 7 parks almost by accident. I’m very lucky that I work on a campus full of parks, but unfortunately they are massively underutilized.

[SarahBee]

More pictures…

[SarahBee]

#FS2020 ParkFinder Entry #2

Hollywood Park per google maps, but just looks like an overgrown forest. No park sign, maybe a future park?
9) National Memorial Park- which is actually just Hollywood Cemetery. Cemetery for pets, Buddhists, those not dead yet, and a baby cemetery.
10) Jefferson District Park which has an amazing mini golf course.
11) Dunn Loring Park
12) Idylwood Park
13) Strawberry Park- not much of a park- fake turf, no sign, usually a million kids running off their sugar highs.

[SarahBee]

More pics Entry #2

[CBGanimal]

#FS2020ParkFinder Royal Lake in Fairfax…because even when you are brewery hopping you can find Robyne at a Park!

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[smb9600]

#FSParkFinder – Because even when on a team ride there’s even time to find a new park!

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[CBGanimal]

Just like when the girls were little I would take them to the park and they could horseplay! #FS2020ParkFinder Windmill Hill Park and #FS2020ParkFinder Jones Point

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[G-Daddy]

Seeing more pictures pop up in this thread of smiling faces without bikes in the frame.

The OP does state: “You must take a picture of your bike with the park sign.”

Not sure how lenient the Keeper of this Pointless Prize will be on this stipulation, but wanted to call it out so there aren’t disappointed Frozen Saddlites!

[mrhappy_onabike]

@G-Daddy 196495 wrote:

Seeing more pictures pop up in this thread of smiling faces without bikes in the frame.
The OP does state: “You must take a picture of your bike with the park sign.”

Yeah…bunch o’ cheaters!
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[LhasaCM]

@camiller 196264 wrote:

Good questions. My intent was was really to give people ideas for a destination, find new parks that you may want to return to another day or find a way to get to some of the better known parks by bicycle. As such, you do not need to do any specific activity at the park except to take a picture of the park sign with your bike in the picture.

Regarding getting credit for going to multiple parks on a ride I am going to need to consult with the technology folks. I don’t have any issue with visiting multiple parks. I just don’t know what is required to identify and count the ride/park.

If the intention is to use an automated leaderboard based on the hashtag, then it’s easiest if each entry is a separate ride (so then the generic https://freezingsaddles.org/pointless/hashtag/FS2020ParkFinder leaderboard will properly equate “rides” with “number of entries”). Alternatively, you could have people just keep a running tally themselves in this thread.

[Boomer Cycles]

Trifecta for one #megamile ride in my neighborhood tonight:

#FS2020ParkFinder – 001: Jefferson Falls Mini Golf District Park (Fairfax County)
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#FS2020ParkFinder – 002: National Memorial Park (Private – Floral Garden Extension and Noah’s Ark Pet Cemetery)
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#FS2020ParkFinder – 003: Wren-Darne Cemetery (privately own and with a great backstory; see https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/this-cemetery-is-the-liveliest-place-in-the-neighborhood/2018/07/14/a140f338-878f-11e8-8f6c-46cb43e3f306_story.html ) [ATTACH=CONFIG]20785[/ATTACH]

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[Boomer Cycles]

Discovered that I had ridden in another park before knowing about this PP, so I added the hashtag to that Strava ride title.

#FS2020ParkFinder – 004: Gettysburg National Military Park
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[Boomer Cycles]

And these were just from riding my bike to the FS2020HH last night without even trying to find a park!!!

#FS2020ParkFinder – 005: Cherry Hill Park
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#FS2020ParkFinder – 006: Frady Park
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#FS2020ParkFinder – 007: Benjamin Banneker Park (East Falls Church VA and not the one in DC)

#FS2020ParkFinder – 008: Jennie Dean Park

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