Guest Guides Spotlight!

We are very excited to welcome two of our guest guides to Ice Fest, Marc Chauvin and Nick Aiello.  Marc is an IFMGA certified guide, which the highest level of recognition in guiding and we are so psyched to have him!  He is also a wilderness First Responder and AIARE Level III Avalanche Certified. Marc has…

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Steep Ice Climbing Clinics With The Best Guides!

Need to work on your Steep Ice Climbing Technique? Great news! We have put together a series of Steep Ice Clinics with an incredible line-up of Guides.  If your comfortable on Grade 3 ice, it’s time to move on to the steep stuff. Learn how to move smoothly, without getting pumped! Vertical ice takes on many…

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Cecilia Buil Guiding At Ice Fest!

We have some amazing news this morning! Hyperlite Mountain Gear is flying over internationally acclaimed ice/rock/alpine climber Cecilia Buil to guide at the Mount Washington Valley Ice Fest!  She has been a guide since 2005 and has been ice climbing passionately for the past 16 years throughout Europe, Asia, the US and more.  She is…

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Tuckerman Brewing Company Is Official Beer Sponsor!

We are so psyched for two things that go hand and hand perfectly together! First we are honored and pumped to welcome back the official 2016 MWV Ice Fest beer sponsor, Tuckerman Brewery! With that in mind, we are so amped for the SNOW that is on it’s way, and the White Mountains is in…

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Welcome Back Julbo

Julbo will be back at Ice Fest for 2016 with their impressive lineup of goggles and sunglasses. Outstanding sunglasses, expertise and innovative technologies are what Julbo does best. Protective eyewear is essential when mountaineering and ice climbing and no company has you better covered than Julbo. Have you seen the Aerospace googles? The first goggle you can wear whether…

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