It’s time for the 2012 Winter Scotchman Peaks Photo Contest!

Send your best shots.

If you are in or around the Scotchman Peaks this winter (you have to be able to see the wilderness), and you take a picture you think is really cool, attach it to an e-mail telling where you took it, when you took it, and maybe even why you took it and send the whole kit and caboodle to sandy@scotchmanpeaks.org.

Retreat from Star Peak.

Only send what you think is the very best, because you can only submit one picture per week to this contest, which starts December 1 and runs through the last hike of the winter season, or April 30, whichever comes last.

The pictures will be judged by that same highly qualified panel from last summer (the Facebook Friends of Scotchman Peaks will vote with their “likes” on pictures posted in a special album), and the best picture of each month will get a very cool Scotchman Peaks hat.

The grand prize for this contest is truly grand: a night’s stay for two next summer at the Huckleberry Tent and Breakfast (http://huckleberrytentandbreakfast.com) near Clark Fork, in the very shadow of the Scotchman Peaks.. The winner will be the winter picture submitted with the most Facebook “likes” overall at the end of the season

The way to win: Send those weekly pictures in and invite your friends to vote for your photo(s) on the Scotchman Peaks Facebook page!