![](http://images.fasterskier.com/2011/11/LaurenFritz1.jpg" "The winner: Lauren Fritz, Hatcher Pass, AK.")
It’s that time of year again. After months of waiting for mother nature to validate your existence, she kindly obliges with a dusting here and there of early-season snow. The minute you judge the ground to be adequately covered, you drop everything and are out the door.
Perhaps there was grass still poking through. There might not have been time to change out the baskets on your poles. Or maybe you were lucky enough to be on the coveted corduroy at Frozen Thunder. Either way your feet were on skis, your skis were on snow and your season had begun.
Send us your photos from that first (or second, or whenever) ski of the winter for the chance to win the 2012 FasterSkier First Tracks Photo Contest. The requirements, as usual, are only that there’s snow on the ground and skis on your feet.
Grand Prize: A goody bag of FasterSkier schwag.
Email you entry to info@fasterskier.com. Please include the date of the photo, the location, your name and mailing address in case you win.
Deadline for submissions is November 19th — just when we hope to start seeing everyone at West Yellowstone.
Check out last year’s entries here.