Vote For Your Favorite Reader Photo

Here's our top ten favorite pictures from this month's photo contest. Vote for your favorite to help us choose the winner. The winning photo will be published in Backpacker's May issue.

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1. The sailing rocks of Racetrack Playa in Death Valley, CA, under the night sky.

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2. A family of mountain goats followed us as we descended from Windom Peak in the Weminuche Wilderness.

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3. Having fun on a night hike under Double Arch, Arches National Park, near Moab

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4. Watching Sunset on top of Airport Rock, Sedona, AZ

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5. Great Basin Collared Lizard

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6. Hiking beneath the falls

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7. Narrows Adventure

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8. Hikers viewed through a spiderweb

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9. Butterfly showing off its colors

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10. Arctic Nights

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