Comments on Chris Townsend Outdoors: Looking Back at the 2000s

Charlie, I wrote a feature on the Uintas in TGO ba...

2010-01-02T12:00:44.831Z

Charlie, I wrote a feature on the Uintas in TGO back in 2002. I climbed King's Peak with the GoLite group then hiked to the eastern end on the northern side of the range and back west along the Highline Trail, with a few higher diversions. The whole trip, including King's Peak, took 11 days.

I was at the 2003 Gathering. I'd forgotten about the rock!

Did you write about your Uintas traverse? I summit...

2010-01-02T04:04:53.866Z

Did you write about your Uintas traverse? I summitted King's Peak after the (I think) 2001* OR show and ran into a father and son on the traverse. I really want to do that sometime. The logistics of getting to the eastern terminus are troublesome to say the least.

Happy New Year. Thanks again for signing that rock for me (via a friend at the Gathering in, what, 2003?).

*could have been 2002

I am very fortunate to have been a part of your fu...

2010-01-01T18:08:19.845Z

I am very fortunate to have been a part of your full decade, thank you for that, and I look forward to what the future brings.
Although igloos are nothing new to you, I enjoy seeing the pleasures you experience on our trips.
For me, the highlight of all the trips is building the igloo you have pictured and moving in for the evening. But then there was Smoke Jumpers Hot Springs.

An amazing decade of walks and experiences. I enj...

2009-12-31T20:43:04.715Z

An amazing decade of walks and experiences. I enjoy still finding books by you and reading them. I have your Crossing Arizona and High Summer to read at the moment. Long backpacking tales just draw me into the journey the author undertakes. I hope there are still many long walks ahead and books as well. Have a great next ten years.

Hope you have many more memorable trips over the n...

2009-12-31T18:09:57.836Z

Hope you have many more memorable trips over the next decade! And that you are enjoying all the snow up your way!

You need to get out more, Chris. ;) I enjoy your ...

2009-12-31T14:48:55.078Z

You need to get out more, Chris. ;)

I enjoy your writing, so here's to more good stuff from you in the next decade.

A happy new year to you.

Mike fae Dundee.

Of course in between the flights my carbon footpri...

2009-12-31T14:39:58.887Z

Of course in between the flights my carbon footprint is minimal as I walk everywhere and sleep in a tent!

Thanks Chris. I thought my carbon footprint would...

2009-12-31T14:36:58.778Z

Thanks Chris.

I thought my carbon footprint would be raised!

My carbon footprint from flights was even higher in the 1990s when I was a ski tour leader and sometimes taking 20+ flights every ski season. But carbon footprints were not something anyone knew about it back then or even at the start of the 2000s.

Flights are still only a small part of carbon output of course - households, industry, cars, food production, deforestation are all more significant. I'm not a back to the caves zealot anyway. I think the answer is for everyone to do a little rather than a small number of holier than thou types to make great sacrifices then crow about how superior they are.

Wow. I'm jealous.....and looking forward to t...

2009-12-31T08:37:15.404Z

Wow. I'm jealous.....and looking forward to the book. I always enjoy your writing. Your Munro/Tops book and the Arizona book were fantastic really evoking the spirit of both trips.

If I was being cheeky - in the light of previous discussions - I'd also observe that you must have quite a "carbon footprint" with all those foreign trips ;-)

Some great trips and experiences. Just hope you of...

2009-12-31T06:49:47.949Z

Some great trips and experiences. Just hope you offset your carbon footprint caused by all those flights.