January 3, 2012

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Announcing The AAC Northeast–MWV Ice Festival LIVE YOUR DREAM Grant!

We’re thrilled to announce the beneficiary of this year’s silent auction: a brand spankin’ new grant program for New England and New York climbers! And this ain’t your typical only-for-the-elite grant program either… This is a grant for all of us—for New Englanders and New Yorkers who want to live their climbing dreams, whatever they may be.

The MWV Ice Fest is partnering with the American Alpine Club to help them roll out their new grant program for northeastern climbers called the LIVE YOUR DREAM Grant. Here at the Ice Fest we’re always brainstorming how to make things a little better, and how to keep inspiring the Northeast climbing community! We were so excited to learn that the AAC Northeast had the same goals for the climbing community, so we partnered up!

All of the proceeds from the Ice Fest silent auction held on Saturday evening at the Cranmore Climbing Wall before and during the Ice Fest Film Fest will directly fund the 2012 winter cycle of the program: the AAC Northeast–Mt. Washington Valley Ice Festival LIVE YOUR DREAM Grant. More details about the program are below. Applications for the Mt. Washington Valley Ice Festival grant will be released at Ice Fest and will fund climbing projects for the 2012­–2013 winter season.
We’ll have more information about this exciting new opportunity at the 2012 Ice Fest. We’ll also post announcements about the grant here on our blog and on the American Alpine Club website.
While we’re on the subject, have you joined the American Alpine Club? In addition to loads of fantastic member benefits, the AAC is an important and active supporter of the New England climbing community. Just in the past few months, a crew of AAC volunteers rallied to clean graffiti off the top of Cathedral Ledge and the AAC Cornerstone Conservation grant helped CRAG-VT rebuild access to Bolton Quarry after flood damage.
About the AAC Northeast LIVE YOUR DREAM Grant, supported by the Mt. Washington Valley Ice Festival:
This is a new, locally administered grant for climbers residing in New England and New York. The purpose of the LIVE YOUR DREAM Grant is to fund individuals or small teams in pursuit of their personal climbing dreams. The emphasis of the grant is on projects that have significant positive impact on grantees’ progressions as climbers, as opposed to cutting-edge or exploratory international objectives (for climbers with these objectives, please see the Lyman Spitzer Cutting Edge, the McNeill-Nott, and Copp-Dash Inspire Awards).
Examples of types of projects we might fund include (but are not limited to):
  • a Northeast climber’s first trip to Yosemite to climb a big wall travel for a boulderer or sport climber to visit an area outside of the Northeast and attempt an iconic problem/route
  • a Northeast ice climber who wants to expand their experience in the Canadian Rockies or elsewhere
  • a rock climber who wants to learn winter mountaineering skills in New Hampshire, the Cascades, or Alaska
The LIVE YOUR DREAM Grant is supported by the American Alpine Club and local fundraising efforts and is administered by a panel of New England and New York climbers, chaired by AAC Northeast Regional Coordinator Sarah Garlick.

The Mount Washington Valley Ice Fest can’t express how excited we are to feed back into the climbing community on a local scale. We can’t express how excited we are to be partnering with the American Alpine Club Northeast to make it all possible. We encourage all levels of winter climbers to dream big and apply, and get after it. We can’t wait to report at the 2013 MWV Ice Fest about the trips that were awarded and the details of the trips from the climbers themselves.

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