[2011 Calendar]

Polls have closed. Congrats to the top 5 in each category below! If you have any comments or questions, please post them in this thread where you can also order a calendar. 2011 Calendar Rules: - All submissions must be entered by midnight November 14, 2010 - Photos must have been taken in the last 12 months (since 10/15/2009) and be Pacific NW hiking related - Photos do NOT have to be taken in the month submitted but should be seasonally relevant - Maximum 1 entry per category / 6 total entries per person - Cover page submissions must be horizontal but month submissions can be vertical to span top and bottom of calendar month page - Vertical submissions should have a 3:2 ratio and draw focus to top half of image (date grid will overlay bottom w/ some transparency) - Horizontal submissions should have a 3:2 - 4:3 ratio or will print letterboxed (no panoramas please) - First place in each category wins calendar page and free calendar (maximum 2 pages / prizes per person) - Runner ups in each category will print as a collage on the back cover (maximum 2 per person) or calendar page if winner hits limit - Photographer retains full photo copyright but agrees to provide full sized photo for printed calendar use if selected (no watermarks or borders please) - NWHikers.net membership will vote via poll for the winning photo in each category (results will be kept sekrit until the calendar social) - Calendar cost will be $20 (plus $5 shipping if you cannot pick up at the December 11th social) Cover First and Second Place:

Rainier in Fall (33 votes)

Interesting sunbeams seen from Whitechuck Mountain (26)

Cover honorable mentions:

Southern Pickets from Trappers Peak (19)

nwhiker in their natural environment (9)

chants goats July 2010 (7)

(7)

January First and Second Place:

Winter on Dickerman (41 votes)

Winter At Lazy Bear Falls (30)

January honorable mentions:

Colfax Peak (16)

Tracks Below Thornton (11)

Wind Chill (10)

first tracks on snowking (10)

February First and Second Place:

Into White (35 votes)

Sunset On Shuksan (21)

February honorable mentions:

Mount Constance, February (14)

Stetattle Camp (11)

Winter quiet (11)

March First and Second Place:

Sunset from Mt. Pilchuck (72 votes)

cracks in venus (13)

March honorable mentions:

Barclay Creek (11)

Near Ancient Lakes (10)

Foggy sunset (8)

April First and Second Place:

Spring Arrives on Pilchuck (28 votes)

Rainy lake trail (25)

April honorable mentions:

Looking up (18)

Room With a View (17)

Spring Evening (16)

May First and Second Place:

Fire Lookout & Galactic Blaze (77 votes)

Lake Ingalls (13)

May honorable mentions:

Cape Alava Sunset (9)

In a Forest Clearing (7)

St Helens Crater Rim (7)

Victory! (7)

Taylor River (7)

June First and Second Place:

Kangaroo Evening (31 votes)

Eldorado on Fire (14)

June honorable mentions:

Waiting for the Sun - Mt Townsend (12)

Waterfall on Donahue Creek on trail to Flapjack Lakes (11)

Lilies (10)

July First and Second Place:

Shooting star fields and the Stuart Range (29 votes)

pure refreshment near dome peak (24)

July honorable mentions:

Teebone Ridge (8)

gazing deer on Hurricane Hill (7)

Tarn on Tomyhoi (7)

Mt. Stuart in all her glory (7)

August First and Second Place:

White Mtn (17 votes)

Hiker in Grand Park dwarfed by Mt Rainier (16)

August honorable mentions:

goat at Kool Aid Lake sunset (13)

Silhouette (12)

Deception Basin (12)

(12)

September First and Second Place

Roaming the Lost World (17 votes, winner after tiebreaker votes)

A view south to Shuksan (17)

September honorable mentions:

The Mountain (12)

Enchanted sunrise (12)

Sloan Peak and the Monte Cristo Range seen in the evening light (10)

October First and Second Place:

Rune with a View (79 votes)

Larch at their peak (8)

October honorable mentions:

Jerry Lake reflections (7)

Mount St. Helens viewed from Johnston Ridge Observatory on Oct. 31, 2010 (5)

Larches, Wing Lake and Black Peak (5)

November First and Tied for Second Place:

Rialto Beach (23 votes)

Winter marching in (17)

Kaleetan above Gem Lake (17)

November honorable mentions:

Frosty Morning on the Stillaguamish (14)

McClellan Butte in the Morning (13)

December First and Second Place:

Hidden Lake Stocking (30 votes)

Eldorado Peak in Winter (24)

December honorable mentions:

Snow Lake & Wright Mountain (22)

Winter sun (17)

Sunset on Glacier Peak (14)