Ice Climbing

We happen to live just down the road from the world famous Ouray Ice Park, which when opened in 1995 was the world's first park devoted exclusively to the sport of ice climbing.

So why climb? Ice-climbing is also potentially painful: half the equipment has sharp metal points (like tools, crampons, and ice-screws) that mix well with neither the other half of the equipment (like clothes, pack, and rope), nor with the soft flesh of a climber. And then there’s the objective danger. Ice-climbs are temporary features of winter, and are in a perpetual state of falling down during their short life-spans. That’s the part of ice-climbing that’s potentially lethal. The paradox of ice-climbs is that they can provide the easiest and safest means of ascent of a cliff, or a mountain. The trick is to determine when an ice-climb is safe, and to do that requires knowing all about ice.

You can choose to incorporate ice climbing as part of a multi-day customized retreat or backcountry skiing adventure.

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Season: November - March
Itineraries Available: 1 day; 3 day; 5 day: 7 day
Price per person varies