Mount Rainier volunteer photographer wins Olympus Photo Contest!

Congratulations to John Chao, who has been taking photographs as a volunteer at Mount Rainier for several years, and whose photograph has been selected as one of fifty winners of the Natural Resource Program Center's Olympus Photo Contest! John's photo, of volunteers working on trail reconstruction in 2007 under the direction of the Student Conservation Association's Mount Rainier Recovery Corps, was selected from more than 700 entries, and wins for our volunteer program a brand new Olympus Stylus Tough-8000 (waterproof, shock proof and freeze proof) camera!

For more information about the contest, and to see all fifty of the winning photographs, go to http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/headline.cfm?type=Announcements&id=8422. John Chao's photographs can also been enjoyed at http://www.photoshelter.com/c/johnchaophoto and http://www.imagekind.com/%22john+chao%22_poster.