Gravel & Grind Events
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Fire In Ice 2024-Saturday
For the 2nd year running, we teaming up with the Downtown Frederick Partnership, Precision for Medicine, Ther Center: Sound. Mind. Body, Olde Mother Brewing, and Odin Crossfit to feature a Polar Lounge in our parking lot Friday & Saturday!
Friday:
Polar Lounge | 6-9PM at 15 E 6th St | Take photos of ice table tops for enjoying your beverages, cornhole constructed out of ice, and ice fire tower. All set with roaring fire pits and ice luges for serving adult drinks outside.
Saturday:
Polar Lounge | 11AM-9PM at 15 E 6th St | Take photos of ice table tops for enjoying your beverages, cornhole constructed out of ice, and ice fire tower. All set with roaring fire pits and ice luges for serving adult drinks outside.
*Unfortunately we cannot offer parking in our lot during this event, however a shuttle will be running from Thomas Johnson High School directly to the Polar Lounge
For more information regarding the Polar Lounge and free shuttle services please visit:
https://www.visitfrederick.org/events/annual-events/fire-in-ice/
Event Menu:
Specialty Latte
The Good Humour: creamy vanilla and orange
Specialty Cocktails
The Hot Temper: guajillo and orange infused old fashioned
Irish Coffee: you get the idea
Spiked Hot Chocolate: it is hot, chocolatey, and a bit boozy if requested
Luge Shot
Mini Hot Temper: a 2 oz. version of the Hot Temper
Fire In Ice 2024-Friday
For the 2nd year running, we teaming up with the Downtown Frederick Partnership, Precision for Medicine, Ther Center: Sound. Mind. Body, Olde Mother Brewing, and Odin Crossfit to feature a Polar Lounge in
Friday:
Polar Lounge | 6-9PM at 15 E 6th St | Take photos of ice table tops for enjoying your beverages, cornhole constructed out of ice, and ice fire tower. All set with roaring fire pits and ice luges for serving adult drinks outside.
Saturday:
Polar Lounge | 11AM-9PM at 15 E 6th St | Take photos of ice table tops for enjoying your beverages, cornhole constructed out of ice, and ice fire tower. All set with roaring fire pits and ice luges for serving adult drinks outside.
*Unfortunately we cannot offer parking in our lot during this event, however a shuttle will be running from Thomas Johnson High School directly to the Polar Lounge
For more information regarding the Polar Lounge and free shuttle services please visit:
https://www.visitfrederick.org/events/annual-events/fire-in-ice/
Event Menu:
Specialty Latte
The Good Humour: creamy vanilla and orange
Specialty Cocktails
The Hot Temper: guajillo and orange infused old fashioned
Irish Coffee: you get the idea
Spiked Hot Chocolate: it is hot, chocolatey, and a bit boozy if requested
Luge Shot
Mini Hot Temper: a 2 oz. version of the Hot Temper
Cranksgiving 2023
Cranksgiving is a food drive on two wheels. It’s part bike ride, part food drive, part scavenger hunt, and part party. The 2023 Cranksgiving ride will take place Saturday November 18th!
Meet at Gravel & Grind by 10:15am. Riders must be ready to roll by 10:30am. The after party and prizes will be across the street from at Olde Mother Brewing (526 N Market Street) at approximately 12:30pm.
Description: Make your giving fun this year! Grab your friends and family and join us for a fun and challenging ride around Frederick. This isn’t your average cruise around town though…you’ll be scavenging food from various grocery stores while competing in the alphabet challenge to wind some cool prizes! You’ll have to strategize because you can only collect a limited amount of items from each location. All food and donations go to the Frederick Community Action Agency. So come on out, join the fun and make Cranksgiving your new tradition! As in years past there are some fantastic prizes for our top performers. E-bikes are welcome too.
Difficulty: This is city riding through traffic.
Tips: Assemble a group of friends (each player will play their own game sheet) and bring a bag, rack, child trailer, or some other way to transport food on your bike. Players will ride to various grocery stores throughout Frederick and buy items to check off their game sheet. The player with the most food items from the game sheet will win prizes! Be sure to bring a bike lock and $ to spend on food.
Board Game Night with Aleventures
Gravel & Grind will be hosting another game night in collaboration with Aleventures.
Aleventures started as a passion project between two friends that met by working in the same industry. Programmers by day, gamers by night - they found gaming to be the ultimate escape in 2020. Aleventures was eventually born and now will be the medium by which they share their gaming passion with the Community alike!
How-To Festival
Ever wanted to learn how to make kombucha, research your family tree, or prepare for bike camping? Celebrate local know-how and learn something new at the How-To Fest. Members of our community will display their diverse hobbies, skills, and passions with demonstrations and informational offerings all throughout the library from 11AM-3PM.
Fire In Ice
This year we are teaming up with the Downtown Frederick Partnership, Precision for Medicine, and Olde Mother Brewing to feature a Polar Lounge in our parking lot Friday & Saturday!
Friday:
Polar Lounge | 6-9PM at 15 E 6th St | take photos in a literal “ice lounge,” featuring life-sized furniture made of ice set next to a roaring fire tower, plus an interactive ice graffiti wall, games and raffle prizes, and three different ice luges.
Saturday:
Polar Lounge | 11AM-9PM at 15 E 6th St | take photos in a literal “ice lounge,” featuring life-sized furniture made of ice set next to a roaring fire tower, plus an interactive ice graffiti wall, games and raffle prizes, and three different ice luges.
*Unfortunately we cannot offer parking in our lot during this event, however a shuttle will be running from Thomas Johnson High School directly to the Polar Lounge
For more information regarding the Polar Lounge and free shuttle services please visit:
https://downtownfrederick.org/event-pro/february-first-saturday-fire-in-ice/
Event Menu:
Specialty Latte
The Good Humour: creamy vanilla and orange
Specialty Cocktails
The Hot Temper: guajillo and orange infused old fashioned
Irish Coffee: you get the idea
Luge Shot
Mini Hot Temper: a 2 oz. version of the Hot Temper
Cranksgiving 2022
Cranksgiving is a food drive on two wheels. It’s part bike ride, part food drive, part scavenger hunt, and part party. The 2022 Cranksgiving ride will take place Saturday November 19th!
Meet at Gravel & Grind by 10:15am. Riders must be ready to roll by 10:30am. The after party and prizes will be across the street from at Olde Mother Brewing (526 N Market Street) at approximately 12:30pm.
Description: Make your giving fun this year! Grab your friends and family and join us for a fun and challenging ride around Frederick. This isn’t your average cruise around town though…you’ll be scavenging food from various grocery stores while competing in the alphabet challenge to wind some cool prizes! You’ll have to strategize because you can only collect a limited amount of items from each location. All food and donations go to the Frederick Community Action Agency. So come on out, join the fun and make Cranksgiving your new tradition! As in years past there are some fantastic prizes for our top performers. E-bikes are welcome too.
Difficulty: This is city riding through traffic.
Tips: Assemble a group of friends (each player will play their own game sheet) and bring a bag, rack, child trailer, or some other way to transport food on your bike. Players will ride to various grocery stores throughout Frederick and buy items to check off their game sheet. The player with the most food items from the game sheet will win prizes! Be sure to bring a bike lock and $ to spend on food.
Popup Game Cafe
Alright all you boardgame lovers (or those curious). We have an evening event with Aleventures where you can game, get some beverages (yes some of a boozy nature as well as coffee) along with food. No registration to play, its free, and you can always just opt to check the games out and watch the action too.
Author Readings
Winners of the Washington Writers' Publishing House's 2022 Poetry and Fiction contest will be conducting readings in this open event. Grab a beverage and open your ears and minds. You can check out more on the authors here: https://www.washingtonwriters.org/home/wwph-news-and-awards/
Summer Daze
Gravel & Grind is teaming up with Aleventures again!
Join us July 2nd at G&G for the second go (Mother Nature be kinder to us this time) at Summer Daze (yup, more puns) where we get nostalgic playing the games that made us.
Four Square, Hopscotch and Cornhole will be the free games featured this time around.
Usual deal, bike rentals, coffee, and yes, adult beverages as we got our liquor license, will be available. Park and come on in to get your place to play.
(Rain date TBD)
Key City Throwdown
Come visit at the Frederick Fairgrounds where we will be offering coffee (and some adult beverages in the afternoon) for our friends and neighbors at ODIN CrossFit. A nice June day, some fitness, good folks, and some tasty coffee that you know and expect. Coming with cold brew and adult beverages to get you through. :) http://www.odincrossfit.com/competitions
Summer Daze
Gravel & Grind is teaming up with Aleventures!
Join us May 7th at G&G for the first ever Summer Daze (yup, more puns) where we get nostalgic playing the games that made us.
Four Square, Hopscotch and Cornhole will be the free games featured this time around.
Usual deal, bike rentals, coffee, and yes, adult beverages available. Park and come on in to get your place to play.
(Rain date TBD)