Intermediate Ice Climbing at Kinsman
- Leaders
- Annie Hines (coB coI coS), Carlos Sandoval Olascoaga (A coC I), Kris Brewer (C I)
- Program
- Winter School
- Type
- Ice climbing
- Terrain level
- B
- Trip date
- Saturday, February 2nd, 2019
- Difficulty rating
- Medium
- Prerequisites
- Prior climbing experience and winter travel; comfortable and confident top-rope belaying.
If the dual experience of joy and terror that comes from smashing icicles with sharp metal objects sounds like fun, ice climbing is for you! And this Saturday, you can join this trip to find some frozen things to climb in NH.
This trip is aimed at participants with prior ice climbing experience or a combination of outdoor rock climbing experience and winter travel. Most importantly, you must know how to belay and be comfortable belaying with an ATC or similar plate device in gloves with potentially icy ropes.
Pre-trip meeting: The pre-trip meeting will be held at 6 pm Thursday in the MITOC office, in order to give everyone space & time to fit boots & crampons.
Location: We will be climbing at Kinsman Notch, near Lincoln, NH. It will be super fun!
Goals: We can talk about how to find the best tool and foot placements, do drills (one tool/no tool/downclimbing/mock leading), or go over multipitch skills (placing/removing screws, v-threads, rappeling).
Gear: Please make sure you have eye protection and two pairs of gloves. All other gear can be rented from MITOC.
Cost: $20 - WS Ice trip fee (covers ice tool + boot rentals) (payable to MITOC) Gas for your driver (payable to driver) $ for breakfast/dinner if your car decides to stop before/after the trip Venmo preferred for payments to drive
Signup
- Algorithm
- first-come, first-serve
- Maximum participants
- 8
- Signups opened at
- Jan. 31, 2019, 9:52 a.m.
- Signups closed at
- Jan. 31, 2019, 11:59 p.m.
- Notes
- What is your prior ice climbing experience? Rock climbing? Winter travel?
- Can you top rope belay? Lead belay?
- In your words, what is ice climbing and what do you love about it?
- Can you make it to the MITOC office today at 6pm for the pretrip meeting?