Echo Road Cuts Ice Climbing Trip
- Leaders
- Carlos Sandoval Olascoaga (A coC I), Chelsey Graham (coB coI)
- Program
- Winter School
- Type
- Ice climbing
- Terrain level
- A
- Trip date
- Sunday, January 29th, 2023
- Difficulty rating
- Intermediate
- Prerequisites
- Confident top-rope belayer. Ideally have ice climbed before. Winter hiking experience
This trip is focused on introducing people to ice climbing in steep terrain, so ideally, this is not your first ice climbing experience, or you have a good rock climbing basis. All participants should be able to top-rope belay. You should also have some previous outdoor winter experience and be knowledgeable of winter layering best practices. We'll be standing in the cold for long periods of time.
This will be a beginner/intermediate ice climbing trip for WS students. The difficulty will be moderate. The ice will be at Echo Crag in NH, access from cars is ~0 minute walk. Learning objectives are safety, technique, ice assessment, and (potentially) introduction to screw placements. Schedule is to meet at White Mountain Bagel at 8:30 am. This requires leaving Cambridge around 6:15 am.
Pre-Requisites
- Climbing and Belay Experience
- Winter Hiking Experience
- Ideally you have ice climbed before, or have a good rock climbing basis
Signup
- Algorithm
- first-come, first-serve
- Maximum participants
- 4
- Signups opened at
- Jan. 25, 2023, noon
- Signups closed at
- Jan. 26, 2023, 11:59 p.m.
- Notes
- What is your ice climbing experience?
- What is your climbing experience?
- Describe your experience with top-rope/lead belaying
- What do you hope to learn?