2010 Reader Photo Contest

Your best shots: BACKPACKER readers have been to some spectacular places and here's the proof from more than 700 submissions.

'Samuel Matzek, Switzerland's Alpine Pass Route, Canon PowerShot 180'

Published January 14, 2010 12:29AM

Samuel Matzek, Switzerland’s Alpine Pass Route, Canon PowerShot 180

Rob Dweck, Sculptured Beach near Coast Camp in Point Reyes National Seashore, Canon EOS 5D Mark II

Jon Barr, Mt. Assiniboine in the Canadian Rockies, Canon EOS Rebel XSi

Bradley Bratcher, Bryce Canyon National Park’s Rim Trail, Canon PowerShot A570 IS

John Dahlem, Alaska’s McNeil River Sanctuary, Canon EOS Digital Rebe XTi

Cole Mannix, Needle Falls in Montana’s Bob Marshall Wilderness, Canon PowerShot A520

Will Rochfort, Refrigerator Canyon in Utah’s Zion National Park, Canon EOS Digital Rebel

Barrie Imhoff, Glacier National Park’s Hidden Lake, Pentax Optio W20

Jessica Barr, Yellowstone’s Lamar Valley, Canon EOS Rebel XSi

Lawrence Stolte, Goat Lick adjacent to the Middle Fork of the Flathead River in Montana, Olympus EVOLT E-500

Roy Kranz, Wyoming’s Devil Tower, Nikon D70