38 miles of
the Pacific Crest Trail are coming home
Submit your photos of the PCT from Angeles Crest to Mt. Whitney and win an opportunity to enjoy a private preview tour of the new trail section.
The Tejon
Ranch Conservancy has received a 10,000-acre easement protecting the views from
a proposed new section of the trail. This will lead to relocating 38 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert and onto the
Tehachapi Mountain’s crest as the Pacific Crest Trail was first imagined in the
1930’s.
Send
us your photos of this mid-southern portion of the PCT. LIMIT 3 PHOTOS PER PERSON. Submit your photos to Scot Pipkin with
“PCT Photo Contest” in the subject line no later than May 31, 2014.Winners will receive:
First Place- Will join Tejon Ranch Conservancy staff for a daylong tour along a portion of the Tehachapi crest trail. You’ll be one of a rare breed—this trail has even been constructed yet! Lunch will be provided by the Conservancy.
Second Place- Tejon Ranch Conservancy gift bag.
Third Place- Tejon Ranch Conservancy baseball cap, stickers.
The Rules
We will be accepting photographs for our Facebook Photo Contest starting 5/06/2014.
Please submit images in as
high a resolution as possible. You must agree to the terms of
use. You will be asked for your name and email. Judges from
the Tejon Ranch Conservancy and our California Naturalists program will review
all the entries. Winners will be notified by email and prizes awarded. All
winners will be posted on the Tejon Ranch Conservancy website, blog and
Facebook page. Photos are evaluated based on both technical skill and artistic
ability.
Closing
date for entry will be 5/31/2014.
After this date, no further entries to the competition will be permitted.
No
responsibility can be accepted for entries not received for whatever reason. No
cash alternative will be offered to winners of the photo contest. The Conservancy’s
decision in respect of all matters to do with the competition will be final and
no correspondence will be entered into.
Eligibility
The contest is open to legal residents of the United States of America where not prohibited by law, who are thirteen (13) years of age or older who have a valid e-mail account prior to the beginning of the Contest. The Tejon Ranch Conservancy has the right to verify the eligibility of each entrant.
The contest is open to legal residents of the United States of America where not prohibited by law, who are thirteen (13) years of age or older who have a valid e-mail account prior to the beginning of the Contest. The Tejon Ranch Conservancy has the right to verify the eligibility of each entrant.
License and
Indemnification
I hereby grant to the Tejon Ranch Conservancy (Conservancy) a
royalty-free, perpetual license to use the photographic images submitted
herewith (the "Work") for any purpose whatsoever. Uses may include,
but are not limited to our website, in print publications, and as distributed
to the media. No Work will be returned once submitted.
I understand that by checking this online form, I hereby
acknowledge that the Conservancy shall bear no responsibility whatsoever for
protecting my work against third party infringement of my copyright interest or
other intellectual property rights or other rights I may hold in such Work, and
in no way shall be responsible for any losses I may suffer as a result of any
such infringement; and I hereby represent and warrant that my Work does not
infringe the rights of any other individual or entity. I have received
permission from anyone in my photos to submit my Work to this contest. The
Conservancy shall in no way be responsible for obtaining said permissions.
In exchange for valuable consideration, I do hereby
unconditionally release, hold harmless and indemnify the Conservancy, their
directors, officers, employees and volunteers of and from all claims,
liabilities and losses arising out of or in connection with my participation in
the contest. This release and indemnification shall be binding upon me, and my
heirs, executors, administrators and assigns.
