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Welcome back Sterling Rope!
Sterling Rope turned twenty five this year! Since their founding, in November 1992, Sterling has been a leader in static and dynamic rope technology. Throughout our 25-year history, we have grown not only our product line, but our people. We’ve seen young high school and college grads start with us, get married, have kids and…
Read more...Two Day Clinics
Check out these two day courses being offered Ice Fest weekend! They are a great opportunity to get really dialed skills Ice Fest weekend. Learn to Lead Leading is very rewarding but can also be dangerous and scary if you are not prepared technically, physically and mentally. The course covers advanced anchor & belay systems, racking…
Read more...Welcome back Grivel!
Welcome back Grivel! Grivel is celebrating its 200th year of making mountaineering equiptment. In 1818, a few years following the first summit of Mont Blanc, a family of Blacksmiths- the Grivel family- began forging tools particular to the new sport of mountain climbing. Today the heart and soul of Grivel is still in Courmayer, Italy,…
Read more...Tuckerman Brewing
The official beer of MWV Ice Fest! Tuckerman Brewing is taking care of all our frosty beverage needs, all weekend long, again this year! These awesome folks show us the love big time… from hosting our guides kick off dinner before the weekend to so, so many tasty kegs at Apres and Evening events, Ice…
Read more...Lindsay Fixmer and Jim Shimberg
Welcome back Lindsay Fixmer! With a background in coaching and managing climbing gyms, she is a dialed instructor and loves to focus on technical skills with her clients. In 2017 Lindsay went on a climbing expedition in India with fellow crushers Anna Pfaff and Savannah Cummins. Despite limited weather windows while on the Tetleh glacier,…
Read more...Josh Wharton
Josh Wharton is back for MWV Ice Fest 2019! Josh is a Black Diamond, Scarpa, and Patagonia athlete (all awesome supporters of MWV Ice Fest!!). We love having him come East to guide for the event. Josh is originally a granite stater! This year Josh traveled to the remote Huayhuash range in Peru and attempted the southeast…
Read more...Peter Doucette
Peter Doucette is back! Peter is the principal guide and owner of Mountain Sense Guides. He is not only a native NH climber, but still resides right here in the Mount Washington Valley. Here he is perfectly poised to take advantage of the fickle weather and transitional conditions that seem to define his high-end ice…
Read more...Black Diamond
Welcome Back Black Diamond! Based out of Salt Lake City, UT Black Diamond is all about quality gear for harsh mountain environs. BD is introducing The Reactor ice tool this year. This leashless cragging machine is built for all-day, all-ice adventures. Their constant innovation in their climbing gear is pretty remarkable. These tools will be…
Read more...North Conway Lodging
Time to book your lodging for Ice Fest weekend! We’re partnering with our friends at North Conway Lodging to get you all deals on your overnight accommodations. North Conway Lodging is offering 15% off rooms for the weekend at any one of their four lodging properties: Eastern Slope Inn Oxen Yolk Attitash Mountain Village Attitash…
Read more...Emilie Drinkwater
Emilie Drinkwater is returning to guide at Ice Fest for 2019. Don’t let her current digs in Salt Lake City, where she owns and operates Cloudsplitter Mountain Guides, fool you! Emilie has the Northeast embedded deep in her psyche, which is one of many reasons we’re always so happy to have her at MWV Ice…
Read more...Hyperlite Mountain Gear
Welcome back Hyperlite Mountain Gear! These packs are the real-deal. Serious workhorses, designed and built right here in New England. How many items in your kit were made on Main Street? Hyperlite will be bringing a fleet of alpine packs to demo Ice Fest weekend. Grab one and try it out for the day!! We…
Read more...Karsten Delap
Welcome back Karsten Delap! Karsten is joining us from Brevard, North Carolina where he is the proprietor of Fox Mountain Guides. Fox Mountain Guides is the only AMGA certified rock guide outfit in the southeast! Karsten is the Head of Alpine Programs for Fox Mountain Guides. Climbing professionally and recreationally, Karsten finds himself in exotic…
Read more...Julbo is back!
Julbo is back for Ice Fest in 2019! Woot! Julbo eyewear is a long time supporter of MWV Ice Fest and we’re proud to partner with this awesome VT based company. There is a reason you see so many pros and guides rocking Julbo eyewear! When you’re exposed to the elements: having the right gear…
Read more...NEice
We are so lucky here in the Northeast to have a resource like NEice.com. If you haven’t visited the site yet, it’s time. Doug & Co have been undertaking a major overhaul of the whole site over the past couple of years and its the go to resource for conditions reports, practically in real time,…
Read more...Ben Mirkin
Welcome back to Ice Fest, Ben Mirkin! Ben lives in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, where he is a full time professor, Dad as well as mountain guide at Mooney Mountain Guides. Ben is a great instructor and has a more than proficient knowledge of the Whites, stemming all the way back to his days in…
Read more...Yankee Rock & Ice
Yankee Rock & Ice recently released a second edition to its comprehensive history of all things climbing in the Northeast: originally published in 1993. The first edition was written by husband and wife team, Guy and Laura Waterman. Laura and the late Guy put forth a tremendous body of work when it comes to the…
Read more...Matty Bowman
Returning for his third Ice Fest, we’re thrilled to have Matty Bowman back. Matt resides just north of Mount Washington in Berlin, NH and co-owns White Mountain Cafe and Bookstore in Gorham, NH. He fell in love with the mountains while in college in Maine, but it was his move to the valley to take…
Read more...Ian Osteyee and CAMP are back!
Welcome back Ian Osteye and CAMP to MWV Ice Fest 2019! Ian Osteyee is a climber out of Lake Placid, NY. He is the owner and principal guide at Adirondack Mountain Guides. We’re psyched to have him back guiding MWV Ice Fest this year. Ian has been a regular on the guest guide scene here…
Read more...Petzl is back!
Petzl is back at Ice Fest this year! A warm welcome back to these big time supporters of MWV Ice Fest, they will be bringing the goods to demo once again, as well as some really sweet guides and climbers. Petzl will have you SET UP in the hard goods department, so everyone from the…
Read more...Matt Shove
Rumor has it we’re getting close to rolling out our clinic offerings for 2019 and we’ve got guest guides on the brain! Time to start rolling out some of our guides for Ice Fest’s 26th year! Excited to say Matt Shove is back! Matt will be leading clinics all weekend, if you sign up with…
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