I Know Where To Find Them

This confession might or might not be a shocker to you, but at least half the time I don’t actually have to go randomly searching for picture opportunities to meet the various Cycle365 Challenges. I’ve ridden the streets and nearby rural highways so often that I know exactly where to go to capture many of my pictures. That’s especially true this time of the year when I hesitate to stray too far from home.
Today’s featured picture is a good example. This morning I saw Scott’s picture of a warning sign in front of a mining operation. It only took my brain about a minute to figure out where I had to go to find MY Town’s equivalent. And it only took another 20 minutes to get there.
From there I rode another 20 minutes to get to another place where I already knew about a hazard I confronted a couple of months ago. Back then I was innocently pedaling through the driveway of our local National Guard Armory as a shortcut from one road to another. At the far side of the driveway, a thin chain stretched across. I couldn’t even see it before I ran into it and nearly got clotheslined right off my bike.
That would have been a great hazard to photograph, but when I got there this morning I found that driveway hadn’t been plowed all the way through. There was no drive-thru, no chain, no hazard — just a dead end filled with snow.




That’s it for today. I wonder if I can post at least one hazard every day this month? Maybe I could, but I’ll probably give up by February 10th. Tomorrow we’re supposed to be getting freezing rain followed by a couple inches of snow. I won’t post that. But when the roads are plowed, I know where to find a bunch of hazardous potholes.
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Great series of posts from Hazardtings MN! Enjoyed them all — very creative!
Here are a few Hazards/Warnings from a couple years ago in my area:
http://cycle365.life/ive-been-warned/
Oh yes, I do remember your “warning sign” post — especially the gun-related signs.
You will have to rank your hazards from most hazardous to least hazardous since you have so many!