ICE CLIMBING

Get high on frozen water.

Our highly rated educational programs will increase your ice climbing skills quickly and effectively.

GUIDING OPTIONS

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Private Guiding

Choose what you want to do, wherever you want to do it. We offer private, custom guiding across all locations and climbing styles.

Some destinations are limited to specific terrain.

To help you get the most out of your experience, we’ll build a custom itinerary based on your goals.

  • Custom itineraries built around your objectives and
    experience level

  • Group sizes vary by terrain, typically up to 4 participants

  • Pricing available in the pricing matrix PDF

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Climbing School programs

Our climbing school is designed to help climbers of all levels begin or continue their education through professional instruction and real-world experience. The goal is to build a strong foundation tailored to your preferred style of climbing.

  • Open to all experience levels, from beginner to advanced

  • Focused on building a comprehensive foundation

  • Courses are a minimum of 2 days in length

  • Difficulty and intensity vary by course

  • No required progression—you can enter at any level

A person in cold-weather gear ice climbing up a narrow, snowy canyon with steep rock walls on either side.
Two smiling people in winter gear and sunglasses taking a selfie on a snowy mountain, with mountains and trees in the background and a bright blue sky.
A person ice climbing on a frozen waterfall, wearing a red jacket and black pants, with a blue rope securing them, surrounded by snow and ice, with a sky and leafless trees overhead.
A person in a red jacket climbing an icy frozen waterfall during winter, surrounded by snow and trees.
A person ice climbing on a snowy, icy cliff face with ice tools, wearing a helmet and winter gear, smiling and making a gesture with their hand, set against a mountainous landscape.

LOCATIONS

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Colorado

We offer rock and ice climbing day trips on Colorado’s Western Slope, along with private guiding and structured educational courses. Operations run in Fall, Winter, and Spring across venues such as Unaweep Canyon, Escalante Canyon, Colorado National Monument, Lake City, and Eureka.

A person wearing a helmet and outdoor gear is climbing a frozen waterfall, using an ice axe and ropes, with a snowy forest in the background.

North East

The Northeast is a seasonal winter program area, operating for a short period each year depending on guide availability. We run private guiding and educational courses across Vermont, New Hampshire, and New York in areas such as Lake Willoughby, Smugglers’ Notch, Crawford Notch, and the Adirondacks.

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Washington

Washington serves as our primary alpine programs venue, offering alpine climbing day trips, overnights, and rock climbing day trips, with occasional glacier ice climbing programs. We operate in Summer across a wide range of areas including Mt. Baker, Twin Sisters Range, North Cascades National Park, Index, and Mt. Erie.

International Coming soon!

BOOKINGS

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Book online, or contact us with any questions.