Welcome back La Sportiva!  Visit Ice Fest friend Doug Madara at the La Sportiva booth and get hooked up with the perfect Mountaineering boots for your clinic!

“Our mission is to bring you the best technical products to explore the outdoors. For 89 years we have been producing innovative products and we are looking forward to the next 80 years. Produced and designed in a small mountain town at the foot of the Dolomites, La Sportiva supports 140 families in a unique and enviable environment. Everyday the mountains surround the people who handcraft our products. Being mountain based and family run allows us to draw on eight decades of experience handed down through the generations. With this heritage we can focus on the future and meld new technologies, ideas and innovation with our rich knowledge of manufacturing to give you the most amazing products on the market. Products that let you go where you dream to go, do what you dream to do and live how you want to live.”

2019 Demo Fleet:

Nepal Evo

Nepal Cube

G5

G2SM

Stoked to have a bevy of Patagonia demo gear heading your way!  Jackets, puffies and backpacks, oh my!  They’ll also be traveling with one of their folks from their Worn Wear program.  Check out the video below to learn more about Worn Wear and how to extend the life of your gear 🙂

Anne Gilbert Chase coming around the corner of what turned out to be the key to unlocking the route up Nilkantha’s SW face. JASON THOMPSON

Packs:

Ascensionist Packs

Men’s & Women’s Insulation:

Fitz Roy Down Jackets/Parkas

Hyper Puff Hoodies/Parkas

Nano Air Jackets/Hoodies

Micro Puff Jackets/Hoodies

Men’s and Women’s Shells:

Triolet Jacket

Pluma Jacket

Galvanized Jacket

We have some more Mount Washington Valley local guides up on the blog for you!  While the valley is home base for all of these fellas, they certainly haven’t limited their climbing time to the local crags.  All have notable CVs with international destinations speckling their accomplishment lists.  They’re also all published authors and great community members.

Michael Wejchert climbs and writes and builds here in the valley.  He is engaged to fellow guide Alexa Siegel.  Published previously in Alpinist, Ascent, Rock & Ice, Appalachia, and the New York Times: Michael recently wrote an update to the Waterman/Waterman classic Yankee Rock and Ice for its second edition.  In 2018 he took two expeditions to Alaska (Eye Tooth) and Mt Robson in the Canadian Rockies.  Check out his writing and be regaled with adventure stories on his website.

Michael Wejchert

Sam is on the right.

Freddie Wilkinson is an adventurer, guide and writer based in Madison, NH.  He is the co-owner of Cathedral Mountain Guides and Salt Pump climbing gym in Scarborough, Me.  Freddie has received both the Robert Hicks Bates Award from the American Alpine Club (2007) and the Piolet d’Or from the Groupe de Haute Montagne (2012) for his achievements in the mountains.  In 2018 Freddie guided in NH, climbed in Yosemite and welcomed his second child into the world.

Freddie Wilkinson

Marc Chauvin began guiding in the 1980s.  He served as the Director and Head Guide here at IMCS 1983- 1997.  In 1997 he created his own guiding business and has been instructing locally and abroad ever since.  An IFMGA guide, Marc was the first to hold that title East of the Rockies.  In 2017 Marc co-authored The Mountain Guide Manual which gives voice to safe rigging and travel practices, for guides, with a particular focus on group dynamics.

Marc Chauvin