FLRC’s Happy Holidays Scavenger Hunt continues to bring entertainment as we wrap up week four! Be sure you post your items by the end of the day–winners will be announced on Monday in the week four thread.
Are we ready for the penultimate week five?! From Monday to Sunday (12/18–12/24), find as many of these items as you can while out on your walk, run, or hike.
Deer
Footprints (human, animal)
Flag
Statue/sculpture (snowpeople count!)
A traffic light
Once you find your item, take a selfie or picture and post it on this thread. Remember, for every selfie or picture of one of these items that you post, you get one point. The runner(s) with the most points will be entered into the swag drawing at the end of the event. And, while five might seem to be the high score, I as the omnipotent race director get to award extra points based on particularly creative or artistic photos, or those that get lots of “likes” here on the Forum. Sucking up to the race director doesn’t hurt either. (I like cookies! Specifically chocolate chip and snickerdoodle, for those who have asked…)
Headed down from the Utah-Arizona border to the Grand Canyon on Monday. Amazing place and the first time I can remember going even with 15 years living in AZ as a kid. But no scavenger hunts to be found, just the canyon!
On Tuesday we went on to Flagstaff and I visited Buffalo Park. This is a buffalo sadly, not a deer:
This morning we visited the Museum of Northern Arizona which sits next to a very lovely little canyon. Walking alongside it I found a sculpture and a flagpole:
Finally, we drove back to Phoenix as I am flying back to Ithaca from here tomorrow. I went for a short run in my parents’ neighborhood on one of my loops from high school, now much more pleasant with traffic calming. Snapped a picture of myself with the sunset and the light at one end of the loop:
My neighbor’s deer on my morning dog walk.
Then I went to downtown Spencer for my run because I know there are sculptures in the park. Here are three.
Swamp monster
Footprints at the pond, made by…
Hundreds and hundreds of geese, standing on the thin ice. I know they’re not on this week’s list, but I wanted to share a rare and magical moment. The ice was singing! Making beautiful, eerie music as the movement of the birds set up vibration waves in the ice sheet.
A Buffalo Bills flag, and an American flag in the first picture – I’m unsure what the middle flag is. The second picture is an example of the strange sights of snow-themed decorations in a place where it’s 75° without snow.
Lastly, this blinking stop sign is at one of the entrances to the community. People – in golf carts and regular vehicles alike – were blowing right through it, so they added lights.
I have to confess. I can’t walk much or far yet. Just had my knee scoped. But I did get out and managed to find things very close to the house in Madison.
no idea who made it but Had to share
