Festival News - January 4, 2012

1)  Happy New Year to all the hikers and best wishes for a good health, happiness and lots of hiking
    adventures in 2012.

2)  The  Hikers Distance Award program will be introducing a new category  - 75km this year to go along
     with 25, 50 and 100 km.

3)  The winners of the 2011 Hike the Highlands Festival photo contest have been announced. Check the      website  to see the winning photos and winners. Congratulations to all the winners and many thanks      to all the hikers who submitted photos in the five categories. Every year it gets harder for the                committee to pick winners based on the quality of photos submitted. Congratulations to all the
     winners and many thanks to all the hikers who submitted photos in the five categories.
    

4)  Check out our Hike the Highlands Festival Blog updated regularly with posts on equipment,
     events, hikes and much more. Latest article looks at New Year's Resolutions.

5)  Group photos are a tradition with this festival and we are pleased to provide you with a number of
     photos taken during the festival. Many thanks to Lisa Dixon, Sharon Proctor, Robert Harrison, Tom
     Wilson, and other photographers.

6)  The 2012 Schedule of Hikes are being worked on now and will be announced in the January 2012
     newsletter.

7)  Join our hiking community - Our festival has developed a facebook fan page. We now have over 
     600 fans and still growing.  Please visit our facebook page and if you like it, click like. We would like
     to have you as a fan. There will be regular updates and news on our festival as well comments from
     our fans. Feel free to post photos of hikes. Hikers can also follow us on Twitter  Over 317 people are
     following us on Twitter.   
8)  Our next festival e-mail newsletter is coming out January 2012. If you would like to be on our
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