Thanks for your work, it is appreciated. I was shying away from trying to do initials as the ful 'HCCS' is a bit much. Your combining the H&C (dropping the CS) is a great idea but it just didn't register with me until I read your remaks, in other words, I thought it was just a image you created, I didn't catch the combination.
Of your other concepts I do like the one with multiple peaks more than the single peak however it seems a little dark. It seems like the seperation from snow cap to lower mountain is kinda lost. Is lightening it up a possibility?
I just met with the company I use for our promotional items. After reviewing the current logo submissions they expressed great concern regarding the amount of shading and font size. As our goal is to have items embroidered shading becomes a big issue. Also any lettering will have to be blown up to be 1/4 inch tall to be embroidered so the very slamm fonts are a no go. Due to this information I decided to extend the contest and will remove any logo's which have to much shading to be embroidered.