Since our "We're Back" announcement in late August that certain assets of MountainZone.com have been purchased from bankruptcy proceedings, the response from our audience has been overwhelming. More than a thousand emails were received in the weeks following our announcement (click here for the story), some of which are reprinted below. To our readers we express our thanks that you have stayed with us, and pledge our commitment to continue in the tradition of excellence in mountain sports reporting.

Welcome back! I look forward to seeing the site re-emerge as a quality place to get my mountaineering fix.

Ed Swann

Thanks for your honest message. Your site was awesome!!! I had to have it everyday. That's the truth. I'm sure you will get MountainZone.com back to where it was before the Quokka thing. I can hardly wait! There wasn't another website around that compared.

Thanks
L Travis

Even though Mountain Zone has been affected like many others in the dot-com world, it's good to see you guys made it. Many of us enjoyed and missed the site (the way it used to be). I know I speak for many when I say let us know if there's anything we can do to help and most importantly, welcome back.

Just a quick note, I always thought the site was at its best before Quokka took over. Good luck getting it back together, I am looking forward to seeing the old Mountain Zone up and running again.

Dear MountainZone,
I don't know what instinct made me hit the Zone button on my "favorites" list this evening when there's been nothing there for so long—you can hardly imagine how happy I am to read that you're back. I've missed you so much. Thank you all for hanging in there and proving that sometimes the good guys win, that honesty and devotion to what one loves do have meaning, that hard work and loyalty sometimes bring success. Bless you all.

Thuche che! Lha gya lo!

Suzanne Delaney
New York

I couldn't believe it when I want to load your site - you are back !!! I was actually preparing to delete you from my favorites - will return my loyalty to your site - good luck with re-starting the best website in adventure sports !!!!

Jim Kramer
Fiscal Manager
IUPUI Sport Complex

Dear Editors:
Glad you are back. Will be checking in on a regular basis in the future. You were my favorite website.

Sincerely,
Dave Scarlett

You're back! And thank &&@!, I was getting desperate for news. Seems you've managed to pull off the minor tech-boom miracle of selling at the right time. I assume that the mountainzone assets did not cost you what you were paid for them - well congratulations and good luck to all of you. I look forward to the first new reports.

Cheers
Iain

To Whom it may concern,
When I logged on this morning to find out that MountainZone was back and no longer operated by Quokka I was so happy. I'm looking forward to following along with upcoming adventures and hope that this website will return to its former high standard. It has been terrible for a long time now. Thanks for the rescue. I hope to spend more time checking in!

Erik Hammel

For a few years I followed your site every week, I was surprised because I discovered your site with a lot of very good information about mountain, mtb, ski, so on...

Well, I've been visiting your site any time that I can, and now the site is alive again, I'm happy and only have to say, good luck with this new adventure and I'll hope that you get back your position like the number one mountain portal. I'll hope for new information and pictures.

Good luck!!!
Saludos desde Chile

I am happy to hear that MountainZone is once again in the hands of its creators here in Seattle. I have always been an enthusiastic user of your website and at one time I had my own website full of beautifully scanned photos for the world to enjoy at my.mountainzone.com. However I was deeply saddened a year or so ago when all of a sudden I could no longer access my home page and my photos and stories were lost under the rubble of a crumbling online industry. I am curious as to whether MountainZone.com has any intention of reviving my.mountainzone.com for all your loyal Zoners out here in the real world. I would love to create my own website once more where I could share my adventures and photos with my fellow zoners. Hope you can make this happen again someday.

Thanks,
Jason Welker
Seattle, WA

Hey, great to see you back. Hopefully you guys are free from the shackles of Quokka Sports. Ever since they purchased you guys I thought things went downhill. Hopefully you guys will get back to what made your site so great. (plus get rid of the "rich media" look of Quokka). Are there any plans for new features?

Great to see you back!
Stephen

Dear Editors of the MountainZone
I was saddened to read in this month's Outside magazine that you were RIP but now I am glad you decided to not give in and go DRY, and keep a web original going! I have submitted three articles to your site, Appalachian Trail, Chilkoot Trail, and a Nepal trek or two. I received so many replies from people about my treks due to your site and I would hate to face a web without your primal portal, and I thank you so much for you for posting some of my adventures. Don't fret for I have many treks coming up, Pakistan, Tibet, and back to Nepal all at the end of this year! Plus I have an article on climbing Mt. Kinabalu in Borneo "The highest Peak in South East Asia" just this last April if you want to have a gander at it. Good to see you back on and I have to admit I didn't really like the linking of MountainZone with Quokka, it seemed like you were a bit sidelined on their site.

Sooo much more adventure to be read, submitted, and enjoyed on the MountainZone!

Much love
Paul Nickodem
Globetrotting nutcase
Anchorage, Alaska

— MountainZone.com Staff