San Juan Huts is pleased to announce our Mountain Bike Route Photography Competition. As a thank you for riding with us in the past, we are offering the opportunity to win another trip. We want to see your vision of a San Juan Hut Mountain Bike trip. Share with us the images and experiences of your Mountain Bike hut trip through photos. Any photos taken while on a San Juan Hut Mountain Bike trip are eligible.

The Entry deadline is October 31st, 2009

There is no cost to participate in the contest. The following procedures and rules will guide you through the process of becoming a contest participant.

Entry Rules:
1. You must have a free Flickr account to participate. Go to www.flickr.com/ to sign up for your free account. Once you have an account you will be able to see all the entries and upload photos your own photos.
2. The competition is open to amateur and professional photographers.
3. Photos must to be from a San Juan Hut bike hut trip to be eligible. Images may show any aspect of the trip from biking to hut life to awesome landscapes taken while you were on a trip.
4. You may enter up to a maximum of five (5) images.
5. Only digital entries submitted through the San Juan Huts Flickr group will be accepted into the competition. The original image may be in any format.
6. Judging is based on composition, technique, content, originality, and effectiveness in conveying the experience of a San Juan Hut System trip.
7. Entries must be posted to the San Juan Hut System Flickr Group, no later than midnight (Mountain Time) on October 31st, 2009.
8. Please add the following tag to your photos: bikecontest2009
This tag is very important. If you do not add this tag your photo will not show up in our search and will not be judged.
8. Please add your photo entries to the San Juan Huts Flickr Group
9. There is NO entry fee.
10. Entry in the contest constitutes agreement to allow photographs to be reproduced, published, and/or exhibited for promotional purposes as they pertain to the San Juan Hut System. Winners will be asked to sign a usage agreement form.
11. All model releases are the responsibility of the entrant.

Not adhering to these Rules and specifications may disqualify your entry.

Photo Entry Procedure and Specifications

1. Go to or sign up for your FREE Flickr account at www.flickr.com/
2. Upload photos to your account.
3. Photos should be in the jpeg format, and no larger than 1000 pixels on the longest side. We recommend this as Flickr will convert and resize all images to this format and size anyway.
4. Please add the following tag to your photos: bikecontest2009
This tag is very important. If you do not add this tag your photo will not show up in our search and will not be judged.
5. Please add a description to your photos to tell us when and where they were taken.
6. Add your photo to the San Juan Huts group pool. Instructions for adding your photo to a group can be found here link
7. Once you have your account you will be able to check in to see all the entries easily by visiting www.flickr.com/groups/sanjuanhuts


Prizes:
First Prize: Free trip for two people on either route (based on availability)
Second Prize: Free trip for one person on either route (based on availability)
Third Prize: ½ price for one person on either route (based on availability)

Late last summer Photographer Richard Durnan and Writer Matt Nelson rode the Durango to Moab hut-to-hut bike route with a small team of friends. You may have probably seen some of Richards photography scattered throughout our web site. Richard and Matt had a story about their trip appear in the March issue of the Desert Leaf Magazine, an Arizona based publication.

An on line version of the story may be viewed here on the Desert Leaf web site.

If you would like to see more of Richard Durnan's outdoor adventure and travel photography check out his web site at www.richdurnanphoto.com

Even if you are not thinking about biking yet, we are. Preparations have begun readying the huts on both our Durango to Moab and Telluride to Moab hut-to-hut bike routes. Check out a photo gallery on our blog for a behind the scenes look at what we have been up to getting ready for you. If you haven't book a trip yet, don't delay any longer. Call now and make your reservation to ensure you get a prime departure date.

A big thanks to all of you that entered our first photo contest. Choosing winners was not easy, but we have made our picks for the first, second, and third place winners.

3rd place goes to Cobun Keegan for this image captioned;
 
"Shafts of light fall on Steve and Ryan as they lead through the trees. "

The San Juan Hut Systems Mountain Bike Routes are featured this week in a story on the Away.com web blog.

Away.com is an extension of GORP Travel.com a leading on-line outdoor travel guide service where both the Durango, and the Telluride routes are featured.


Have a look at their write up on the blog at:
http://blogs.away.com/travel_guide/2008/04/adventure-escap.html

We would love to hear about your trip! Please share the story of your adventure on any of the San Juan Hut Systems Ski Huts or Bike Routes. We love to hear about the fun had you can have out there. Plus your story might help make someone else's trip better.

Just add your story as a comment to this thread.

Colorado's Fab Four
San Juan Hut Systems
Ted Alan Stedman

Check out the story about the San Juan Hut Systems Telluride to Moab route by Ted Alan Stedman of the GORP web site.

Click here to jump to the story.


http://gorp.away.com/gorp/location/co/bik_fabfour4.htm

Check out this post in the mtbr.com forums from  a user of the San Juan Hut System. It's a really fun look at the single-track alternate routes on the Durango to Moab Bike route.

Click here to see the post

Discounts on All Our Bike Routes

4 for 3  &  8 for 6

Beginning this year we are offering a new pricing structure for the bike hut routes. Now when you book 3 riders you get a 4^th rider FREE.

When you book 6 riders you get the 7^th and 8^th FREE and the huts to yourself!

Contact San Juan Huts to learn more and book your trip now. 970-626-3033 or email info@sanjuanhuts.com

Channing Hammond, owner of Old Man Mountain creates great pannier racks that have withstood the abuse of countless bicycle tours and have earned the respect of many riders, manufacturers, and organizations like San Juan Hut Systems. They are the only manufacturer we know of that makes a rack for full suspension bikes.

If you are in need of a rack for one of our hut-to hut bike trips check out Old Man Mountain Panniers. For your full suspension bike look at the Sherpa, Cold Springs, and Ultimate LowRider models.

www.oldmanmountain.com