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Wanderlust Challenge
January 7th - February 4th
Listed Below, please see Team Winners from 2022 at the top of the Leaderboard!
HERE’S HOW IT WORKS
- Register Your Team starting January 1st (The First 55 teams to register receive a FREE 4-pack of Fresh Press Cider from Stowe Cider!)
- Wanderlust Challenge starts Saturday, January 7th through Saturday, February 4, 2023.
- Make sure you (or someone else) takes a photo of you or your mascot completing each activity. (For example, Team #5’s mascot might be an action figure, or a banana, while Team #8’s mascot could be their dog.) If you choose a mascot, it must be photographed at each completed challenge.
- Teams must be from one household, per COVID best practices, and a team can earn points one time for each activity (e.g. cannot build two snow forts).
- Upload completed activities with picture documentation to waterburywinterfest.com/wanderlust in order to be eligible for fabulous weekly prize drawings!
- HAVE FUN!!!
WEEKLY PRIZE DRAWINGS
Three Weekly Prize Drawings
Enter your completed activities by Saturday each week in order to be eligible for
weekly random drawings from our sponsors!
The teams with the highest points during Wanderlust will win Grand prizes and awarded on the final day
of Winterfest Sunday, February 5th
WEEK 1 Ends
Jan 14th
Prizes from our Sponsors
WEEK 2 Ends Jan 21st
Prizes from our Sponsors
WEEK 3 Ends
Jan 28th
Prizes from our Sponsors
TAKE A WALK
- Anywhere on the Cross Vermont Trail (5 pts)
- On the Stowe Street “dry bridge” (5 pts)
- Inside the tunnel at Perry Hill Trailhead (5 pts)
- Walk to Remote Site #9 - Little River Park (10 pts)
- To the chimney at the CCC Camp Smith (10 pts)
- With a dog on the GMC’s Short Trail (10 pts)
- With friends on your favorite walk (10 pts)
- To the Northfield Savings Bank Sign (10 pts)
- To the Hedgehog Hill Trailhead (15 pts)
- To the summit of a Mountain near you (20 pts) *
CREATE
- Create a colored icicle (5 pts)*
- Make a snowperson on top of a mailbox (5 pts)*
- Make a paper snowflake (5 pts)*
- Write a Limerick about Winterfest (10 pts)*
- Make your own jigsaw puzzle from picture of HOTW logo or sign (15 pts) *
- Make (not buy) an owl doll (15 pts)*
- Make a card for a Meals on Wheels recipient & drop off at WASCA (the senior center) (15 pts)
- Create and record a song about winter (upload video (max 30 sec.) (20 pts)*
- Offer a creative Winterfest FUNdraising idea (video or image) (25 pts)*
SNOW PLAY
- Catch a snowflake on your tongue (5 pts)*
- Make a snow angel (5 pts)*
- Sled down a hill (10 pts)*
- Build a dog house from snow (10 pts)*
- Play tennis with a snowball (10 pts)*
- Write “Winterfest” in the snow with snowshoe footprints (15 pts)*
- Make a snowperson in a public area for all to enjoy (15 pts)*
- Make a snow fort (15 pts) *
- Register by 5:00 pm Saturday, 2/4 for Snow Football 2/5 (20 pts)
GIVE BACK
- Send an actual (snail mail) thank‐you card to your local first responders (10 pts)*
- Donate some winter clothes (10 pts)*
- Do a charitable service (unique & not listed below) in honor of Dr. King’s Day (15 pts)*
- Send a (snail mail) letter to Town Manager thanking him for his service to Waterbury (15 pts)*
- Donate needed items to your local food shelf (15 pts)*
- Offer cookies to a neighbor (15 pts)*
- Shovel a neighbor’s walkway (25 pts)*
NATURE
- Identify a type of pine tree (10 pts)*
- Identify three different animal tracks (15 pts)*
- Find a wild turkey, the bird not the booze (15 pts)*
- If you can, photograph a live deer (15 pts)*
- Visit the top of the majestic Waterbury Dam (15 pts)
- Scan the stars with the Orion Starblast telescope, borrowed from the Waterbury Library (15 pts)
- Shhh! Find a live snow owl (25 pts)*
HUNKER DOWN
- Play a board game (5 pts) *
- Bake Cookies (5 pts) *
- Share Cocoa or tea with someone outside of your household (10 pts)*
- Strike a Yoga pose in your Darn Tough socks (10 pts)*
- Share a Lake Champlain Chocolate hot drink or candy with a child (15 pts)*
- Parcipate in an online Yoga class (15 pts)*
- Camp in a tent inside your home (15 pts)*
- Get takeout (show receipt) from Prohibition Pig (15 pts)
VISIT OUR PARKS
- Dac Rowe Park (5 pts)
- Hope Davey Park (5 pts)
- Gazebo, Waterbury Center Park (5 pts)
- Waterbury Dog Park (5 pts)
- Seminary Park (5 pts)
- Waterbury SkatePark (10 pts)
- Anderson Skating Rink (10 pts)
- Bring your Mascot to “Waterbury Winterfest Party in the Park,” Silent Auction Tent on Saturday, February 5th at Rusty Parker Park! (20 pts)
EXPLORE
- Find the base of the WDEV Towers (5 pts)
- Visit the smokestack at the State Complex (5 pts)
- Take a picture at the Waterbury Veterinary Hospital (5 pts)
- Take photo at Vermont Realty Group (10 pts)
- Locate our friendly local NAPA Auto & Truck Parts store (10 pts)
- Locate the nearest DKR office near you (10 pts)
- Take a screenshot of the Best Western Plus' Chief K9 (10 pts)*
- What is included in the Sisler Builders Home Energy Audit? Send screenshot or image (10 pts)*
- Borrow loaner snowshoes from the Waterbury Library and capture picture using them (15 pts)
- Cheers! Wine & Dine at Blackback Pub, take picture on Outside Deck or new Second Floor deck & show receipt (15 pts)
- Enjoy a delicious treat at the Red Hen Bakery (15 pts)
- Discover where Wall Street meets S. Main Street (15 pts)
- Find and take a picture with your favorite public artwork in town (15 pts)
- Visit with our dear departed friend, “Vermonty Python” (20 pts)
- Rent the Winterfest Fat Tire Bike and enjoy an amazing ride (20 pts)
- Locate a stationary Suncommon vehicle (20 pts)
- Visit the beautiful Lawson’s Taproom (20 pts)
- Identify the Domestic wine offerings at VBS (send screenshot or image) (25 pts)*
UPLOAD COMPLETED ACTIVITY PICTURES
Please be sure you or your mascot
(if you choose to have a mascot) are included in
each image (jpg)
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Leaderboard
| Standing | Team Name | Points Total |
|---|---|---|
|
1 |
Sage Wolf |
860 |
|
2 |
Need Snow |
800 |
|
3 |
Mi- |
755 |
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