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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[karenbikes2@gmail.com]

1/25/2022 Roadway
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The underbelly of roadway FL-417, seen from the Cross Seminole Trail.

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@rumipumi 214702 wrote:

1/25 roadway

new york ave from the ART

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How lovely!

[Judd]

1/25/2022 Roadway

View shed from the George Washington Memorial Parkway.

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[Boomer Cycles]

1/25/22: Roadway (I395 on the 14th Street Bridge, westbound)

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[Serdar]

1/25/2022 – Roadway
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Arlington Blvd passes under S George Mason Dr. So, these two roadways do not intersect.

[Kbikeva]

1/25/2022 Roadway

I was trying to capture how pretty this highway is in terms of decorative elements being incorporated into the design. There are several around the city. Why can’t we have pretty highways? I did look up “Joe Battle” and it seems he’s some Texas highway administration guy.

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[Catedrew]

1/24/2022 – roadway

So this roadway is a TEMPORARY roadway – They are upgrading one of the field at Thomas Jefferson Middle school in Arlington, and didn’t want the huge trucks to dig up the turf and mud, so they put down this temporary roadway between the street and the far field, plus a lot of gravel between the temp roadway and Irving Street for the heavy trucks. Once the field is upgraded, this temporary roadway will disappear.

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[SusanG1693]

1/25/2022 Roadway
Found the end of the…..

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[CaseyKane50]

1/25/2002 Roadway

100 block of Prince Street
Alexandria, Virginia

Going back in time to a cobblestone street.

[camiller]

1/25/2022 Roadway

Commonwealth Blvd in Fairfax. It uses a combination of sharrows and bike lanes. The sharrows and bike lanes change sides depending on the topography with bike lanes on the uphill sides. It is actually quite streamlined and works quite well.

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[bigredboiler]

1-25 Roadway

There’s a roadway under there somewhere

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[BianchiBoy]

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[AlanA]

1/25/2022 – Roadway

Another hard choice for figuring out which picture to post. But, I just had to use this one. This is what riding a bike is all about!! Yee-Haw!!

p.s. Ignore the 35 mph speed limit on this one!!

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[AlanA]

@tomacsh 214688 wrote:

1/25/2022 Roadway
The Beltway curving west, seen from Linden Lane (Silver Spring). Not too heavy this a.m., but my commute was still better [emoji28]

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I despise that ‘roadway’! I avoid it at all costs. But the temple in the background is a nice touch.

[AlanA]

@Kbikeva 214719 wrote:

1/25/2022 Roadway

I was trying to capture how pretty this highway is in terms of decorative elements being incorporated into the design. There are several around the city. Why can’t we have pretty highways? I did look up “Joe Battle” and it seems he’s some Texas highway administration guy.

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El Paso has some spiffy overpasses!!

[Author]

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