Level Up on Ice! Intermediate Skills and Techniques Clinic

This clinic is for climbers who have climbed ice and are looking to progress on steeper terrain. Building on the foundational skills needed to move up moderate ice, we’ll teach more advanced movement techniques and positions with the goal of helping you confidently climb WI3+ to WI4 smoothly and effortlessly by:

• Mastering foot placements, tool swings, and everything that happens in between with your body

• Having adequate sequences of movement execution

• Learning positions of rest and tricks to avoid getting “pumped”

• Finding proper positions of balance

• Reading the ice and choosing the right path

Prerequisites:

• Participants must have previous experience ice climbing, preferably in the last year. (If you climbed once five years ago, we highly encourage you to take our Intro to Ice Movement clinic—it will be more fun and you will progress faster.)