[Laurie E.]

Plates

@bigredboiler 213346 wrote:

I would like to sponsor a new pointless prize for 2022. #Plates

Goal: Find & photograph license plates from all 50 States & DC

How to Play
If you’re riding along and you see a license plate from a state you haven’t already photographed:
1. take a photo of it (with or without your bike in the pic)
2. include it in your Strava post with the #Plates hashtag
3. post it to this License Plates Pointless Prize Thread in the Forum as well (this is where I’ll officially track/count entries)

Winner(s) (Prize details to come):

• Main Game Winner will be the person with the most plates (only 1 plate per state + DC will count)
• Tiebreaker: First person to find 51 plates
• Alternate Scoring Winner will be the person with the most unique plates (I will count one of each variant of state plates + one each of special/other plates (e.g. Canadian province, Diplomat, US Gov’t, etc.)

Here is a link to a Google Spreadsheet I will use to keep track of submissions.

Why?????
It’s random to find plates on your ride.
It’s like an Easter Egg hunt (you never know where you’ll find a new one).

More details:
You can include multiple license plates per ride.
Ride safe! It’s easy to get distracted if your staring at license plates….be careful!
I tried this on my own last Spring in DC….took me ~2 weeks to find 48 states+DC (never found WY or ND around DC )

Good luck, keep your eyes peeled, and have fun!!! -Kris

[Laurie E.]

Team,

It’s gonna be cold and icy tomorrow, please be careful if/when you go out. This is only a game and it’s not worth hurting yourself. I may/may not get in 2 miles on MLK day.

[Laurie E.]

Cold!!!!

[Laurie E.]

Hello Team members.

Here is the list of our team members:
Jonathan Levine
Eric Williams
Alex Seidel
Marcy Kelley
Ken Notis
Leslie Tierstein
Linda Deshayes
Christopher Randall
Justin Watzman and myself.

In case you missed the HH, here’s the housekeeping that we need to do:
We agreed on the name “Nine and Fine” for our team.
There’s a Strave Club name “Nine and Fine” that each member needs to join,
you can send me an invite or accept the one that I sent you. Some people I didn’t know their Strava name to request to follow, so I couldn’t send you an invite. Please request to follow me on Strava, my name is the same, Laurie E and I think that then I can send you the invite.

We are from all around the DMV and NYC.
We are planning a group ride in Feb meeting at Jones Point Park

If you would like to plan a group ride, or just see who is available to ride with, you can put it in the discussion on Strava for our club.

Please let me know your FS Forum name.

Please try to ride everyday and have fun!

I have been doing FS for six years and since I started, has not been sick (cold/flu) in the winter, that’s why I keep doing it. I also would love to ride everyday of the year, so FS is a good start to doing that.

[Laurie E.]

Here what’s left of the autumn leaves.

[Laurie E.]

Enter me into the raffle, my daughter (although not a male) would appreciate them if I win.

[Laurie E.]

Today’s ScavHunt photo was for a picture of a creek. The road that leads to the creek is closed due to construction. This road has been closed for over a year, and last year I was sneaking through the site, so the workers put all types of barriers up to block me. So today, I had to get through Bob Cats, jersey walls, mountains of gravel, ditches, holes and missing roads, not to mention the ice and snow to get to the creek so that I could take the picture. I’m posting both pictures, the construction site and the creek. The things that I do for FS.

[Laurie E.]

I went the extra mile to get to this creek.

[Laurie E.]

It was so cold out today.

[Laurie E.]

Laurie E.

1/6/2022 Cone

@rumipumi 212015 wrote:

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

[Laurie E.]

Found one close to home

[Laurie E.]

This is a 2 for 1, you have the sign and the light.

[Laurie E.]

@rumipumi 212145 wrote:

Welcome to the 2022 Photo Scavenger Hunt. The weekly theme for Sat Jan 1 through Friday Jan 7 is SHAPES!
Sat Jan 1: Square
Sun Jan 2: Rhombus
Mon Jan 3: Sphere
Tues Jan 4: Right triangle
Weds Jan 5: Pentagon
Thurs Jan 6: Cone
Fri Jan 7: Cuboid

Watch this calendar for scoring of the daily winners and future scav hunt objects and themes: http://tinyurl.com/2022scavhunt
Watch this leaderboard for your participation prize progress! https://freezingsaddles.org/pointless/hashtag/scavhunt
Full rules: http://bikearlingtonforum.com/showthread.php?18934-Pointless-Prize-2022-Photo-Scavenger-Hunt

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The square is the middle sign on the post.

[Laurie E.]

@drevil 210103 wrote:

3/19/21 – “Freezing Saddles” 5-letter word (or longer) subanagram

On your ride tomorrow, the last day of Freezing Saddles , find a 5-letter word (or longer) using only the letters in “Freezing Saddles”, the word or the thing. If the latter, let us know what you found. Snap a pic, and post it here in the thread.

WOOOOHOOOO! Thank you all for playing. Even though there wasn’t a lot of group rides and meetups compared to years past, I still enjoyed suffering virtually with you all on the bike in the cold.

So who’s coming out to FSLNHPP? JoM and I will definitely try to make it, so say hi and intro yourself if we’ve never met before. Let’s just stay properly socially distanced

Happy hunting!

Freezing Saddles 2019 Last Lappers by bikecentric

Sorry that I couldn’t be at HP to close out the ride, so I did my own Solo ride. Anagram for “Freezing Saddles” – Dangerfield 3-19-21

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[Laurie E.]

@drevil 210056 wrote:

3/18/21 – Blue US Postal Service Collection Box (or if not in the U.S., the equivalent) with your bike leaning against it

On March 18, 1766, the Stamp Act – a tax levied on the British colonies in America which required that many printed materials be produced on stamped paper produced in London – was repealed. It was enacted in 1765 to pay for British military troops stationed in the American colonies that were there to protect from a French invasion, but the colonists thought the tax was unfair (plus they weren’t really worried about a French invasion).

I know that the Stamp Act wasn’t about stamps in the way that we think of them now, but since the word “stamp” made me immediately think of the Postal Service, let’s go out and find one of those blue USPS collection boxes.

Fun fact: letter boxes started out as green in 1860, then red in the 1880s, silvery white from 1897-1905, then back to green. In 1955, they were Red, White, and Blue, and finally in 1970, they came to look like they do now: solid deep blue color with reflective decals featuring the Postal Service’s eagle seal.

Happy hunting!

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Blue Mail Box 3/18/21

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