Local Love for Clinic Participants

Opening up your participant packet can feel a lot like Christmas with all the local love that is shown for our Clinic participants by some of our favorite local spots!  As if killer instruction in beautiful New England locations wasn’t enough!  We wrangled a bunch of awesome deals for you from our good friends in…

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Shout Out to the IMCS Guides!

This morning we want to give a shout out to the guides of the International Mountain Climbing School – the hometown heroes of the Mount Washington Valley Ice Fest.  This crew has an incredible amount of experience climbing and adventuring in the White Mountains and beyond.  Both personally and professionally, these guides have done it…

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Rab is back and bringing demo gear

We’re psyched to have Rab back at Ice Fest this year.  Rab was conceived for climbers by climbers in Sheffield, England and has been making bomber gear to keep you warm and dry in the elements ever since. “More than thirty years since our founding, we continue to find inspiration in the untamed spirit of…

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Sterling Rope- Welcome Back!

Did you know that we are lucky enough to have some of the best ropes in the world be from a local New England company?  Sterling Rope is out of Biddeford, Maine and they engineer and manufacture the best ropes to climb on that you can find in any gear shop. Their DRY XP is one example…

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