Tales of cold winter climbs, backpacking and skiing trips, not all of them successful, along with articles on mountaineering, whitewater, photography and more.
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The Krummholz Zone was last updated on:
November 4, 2001.


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AWARDS, ACCOLADES AND AFFILIATIONS

The Krummholz Zone has had a few awards bestowed upon it. These high quality award sites are a great place to find the best and latest outdoor adventure web pages. Award winning sites are judged based upon three main criteria: informative content, clean design, and appropriate use of technology. Many thanks to those who have recognized our efforts.


"Your well-written tales, articles and quotes truly are inspiring. It is obvious that you have worked hard to apply the elements of good design to each of your pages. We will enjoy returning to your site periodically to learn about your latest trips, and we wish you the very best." - Ann Bevans and Dave S.







"Our first and lasting impression of your site was the clarity of your photos. Also how clean and uncluttered you pages are. Looks real professional." - Jack London Award Committee






"I enjoyed surfing your site, and I am sure everybody else will too."
- Eric Nielsen, NEOVIZION, Inc.








"A diary of wildlife. John Fawcett seems to be the ultimate wildernessman and on this site you can follow his travels and watch beautyfull pictures from many different perspectives. Helpfull for anyone who loves the outdoorlife! Thanks for inviting us to your great site!" - Tobias Strandh, AWA







"It was a pleasure to visit your website. You are a very good writer and I enjoyed your trip reports and articles a lot. You have created an interesting site that provides lots of information in an entertaining way. Congratulations on your great site. All the best." - Heidi Walsh







"I really enjoyed finding your site by the way. The kind of climbing you do reminds me of the spirit of climbing I've not read since the "Boardman-Tasker Omnibus" was published."
- Robert Beeman


"Congratulations! Your website is very well done and you have obviously worked very hard." - The International Association of Web Master and Designers




"Only creative sites that have great navigation, layout, and original content win our award and your site certainly qualifies!" - Nikki









"Congratulations! Your site has been selected as one of the best sites on the Web by Lycos TOP 5%."






"Great site with editorial, articles and the adventures of a hard-core soloist."
- Steve Fry






"We discovered your site a few months ago and have found ourselves going back to it a number of times. Your article on the perils of a frozen frankie is still a popular topic around our shop! Recently, we linked your site on our Site Central page of our site. We feel that our customers would benefit from the tips and musings on your page. Good job on a visually clean, useful site!" - Bruce Fabbri


"Your site is the kind I'm really looking for - the kind of adventure sports site that crosses lines over several sports."
- Tom Walker


"Wow! I'm really impressed! A great-looking page and a well-written and beautifully illustrated story. A very professional job. That's quite an adventure you guys had."
- John Sherick


"Enjoyed the Krummholz Zone." - Charles Lindsey






"CheeseDog - the WebHound sniffed out your site, marked his territory and decided that you deserve the CheeseDog 3.5 biscuit award! Congratulations. Your site was chosen for its innovation, visual appeal and/or content." - Tim Nyberg


"Congratulations you have been awarded the White Wolf Award for Page Design. We found your pages a pleasure to navigate and to view. Excellent writing, educational presentation and a clean design devoid of the "in" things such as frames and animation that sometimes make web pages so hard to read. It is a page to bookmark and enjoy because it is, to put it bluntly, a page whose design is simple and straight forward and does not loose the reader in extraneous prose and subjects." - Douglas Large








The Critical Mass Award"A very nice site, good design, clever graphics, and your content is informative, entertaining, presented well and easy to access. A worthy enterprise and a positive contribution to the Web. If you don't mind I'd like to add a link to your site from my travel-outdoor section, you have a lot of good information to share. Thanks for helping make the Web a more interesting,fun and attractive place to visit. I really enjoyed my visit to your site and will return again when time permits." - Bill Darling


"Terrific site. I've been a Web user for two years, and this is the first time I've sent such a message. Stay warm." - Bruce Dodds


Best Of The Net AwardBest Of The Net Award"Wow! Your site is great! Your articles are some of the best written and most informative I have read. I think people would be interested in how someone has so much adventure and manages to maintain such a nice site."
- Chris Kallio


Medaille d'Or"An excellent site devoted to issues connected with the great outdoors; with climbing and walking; with wilderness travel; and with associated equipment. A really good on-line magazine that genuinely competes with the paper alternatives." - Ken & Maureen Lussey




Surfer's Choice"Congratulations! Your site has been selected to receive Surfer's Choice's Highest Honor! The Surfer's Choice Best of the Web Award. This is our Highest Award for everything good incorporated into one site. Great Design, lots of interesting info, and great functionality. In your site you have carried this off perfectly!" - Kimberly Warzelhan and the Surfer's Choice Review Team






Best Of The Web - Silver Award"Your site is very well put together. I enjoyed surfing it and I am sure everybody else will too." - Eric Nielsen   Nielsen Web Sites & Business Graphics











Gar award"It is the decision of the GAR staff that your site does indeed stand above others in its graphic quality, site organization, and overall attractiveness. We gratefully appreciate the existence of such sites on the Net!" - GAR Award Committee


John's Links and Sites Gold Award

"Congrats! You've earned the "Ultimate Links and Sites" Gold Award! This award recognizes exceptional design and content. Display this award with the pride of knowing that your site is among the very best!" - John Ballem


Proudly featured in PowerLinks Online (TM)"Congratulations! Your site is now featured in PowerLinks Online! Only content-rich sites are selected to appear in this WWW index." - Dan Fournier


Winner Top 10 COOL Sites Of The Month"You deserve many thanks from us and our readers for your efforts in providing an excellent web site and making the Internet "the place to surf. Selections are based on several different criteria including ease of use, how fast pages load, useful contents, relevance, and providing a special or unique service." - Robert Zee - Editor, COOL Doctor - Computing OnLine Doctor E-zine


A 2 COOL WEB Coolest Site"Here at 2coolWEB, we appreciate truly cool sites. Occasionally, we run across sites with superior design, content, and functionality, and we believe these sites are worthy of recognition. So, we've decided to honor your site with our "COOLEST SITE" award. Very well designed site, excellent resource." - Martin Sacher President, 2coolWEB



A Woodskunk Cool Site"Your Krummholz Zone web page is excellent!" - George Thomas, in the forested wilderness of Seattle, WA, USA


"We have found that your site meets our combined critique for Web originality and content. Only a very small number of sites receive this award. Again, congratulations on a great Web site!" - Russell R. Lenzini Founder, Web Master Gold Award




This place is definitely a KEY SITE!"Your site was very easy to navigate, showed excellence in design, and was interesting to explore. Your original content also made the visit a worthwhile trip. I'll be back! The Key Site Award is only given to those sites that truly excel in design, content, and creativity." - Tom Speer







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