Hello!

The text below is kinda a generic post that I’m cross posting here and there. But I wanna add for this community specific, that I love ice climbing and ice climbing on glaciers is wicked fun. With the right skills and tools these magnificent ice rovers become playgrounds for the likes of us.

Also if you’re wanting to get into ice climbing, learning on a glacier is probably the least risky spot to learn about ice climbing.

One of the technical trips we guide is a climbing oriented one

Anyways, here is generic post

I work for a guiding company in Alaska and we had a guide drop out last minute. We are trying to fill that spot

Training starts May 20th and can be entry level. We will teach you the skills, though someone with technical experience is preferred. This is a great entry to mountaineering and an incredible program to learn these skills and get paid for it

The way the program works is we have technical trips and hiking trips. Entry level guides will get trained on how to guide a hiking trip and run those trips (is still on the glacier, but mostly the moraine and low consequence terrain). Once they’ve learned the technical skills and can pass off an assessment, they can then run the technical trips. It can take a few years before green hiking guides run technical trips, but there is no timeline. You can run the technical trips as soon as you can prove you have the skills

Our company also provides rafting trips (we don’t do water, the white water guides have their own program) but we do live with them. We can go rafting with them for free, so if you’re also interested in learning some river stuff, this is a great spot.

It’s a great mix of outdoor enthusiasts living in the woods together. We live onsite in tents, have a cook shack with power, showers and an outhouse. It’s like an adult summer camp

This is a very special place to me, it is filled with love, madness and is a hell of a good time. You can also make some money here

If this interests you, reach out and I’ll give you more details about our company and check out our website

https://www.novalaska.com/

Hi all,

newbie here looking for some dry tooling gloves, i've seen golf gloves are popular but cant find any in a pair, or a left and right individually that are the same. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance

The tape on the handles of my tools have had a good run but it's about time to re-wrap them.

Besides custom ice tool tape like Edelrids Grip Tape, what other options are there. I'm not seeing many made for ice tools.

What luck have people had with cycling bar tape, racket handle tape, or golf club tape like Alien Pro?

Hoping to hear what you used and the pro/cons of how things worked for you. TIA

Message me if you want to contribute (donate gear to be broken)

In the next two months I'm planning to break some tools and picks. Primarily I'm curious about the strength of 1/ lower pommel 2/ clip-in point 3/ lateral strength of the entire lower handle, 4/ strength of the upper shaft in a stein pull. Hopefully all 4 measurements can be done using a single tool.

For picks I plan to measure 1/ strength of the tip in a stein 2/ strength of the entire pick in a stein 3/ strength of the pick in a 50mm deep crack. I will only test a) grivel force/jetb/krukonogi/morpho b) aspeed c) petzl picks.

Whilst not specifically ice climbing related, what’s everyone’s top picks for a mixed technical axe that can have picks swapped out to ice? Preferably not insanely expensive, so no more than £400 for a pair. Thanks in advance

I recently just got interested in Ice climbing, and as such I've been kind of curious about designing an ice axe as either a personal or capstone project for school. I just wanted to generally ask people their thoughts on general features and designs of axes such as what style blade, handle grip, shaft angle, eyelet, and spike they may prefer and for what reasons. I'm trying to collect some data on what types of features are important to implement and get a general idea over what people want and care about in their tools. Thanks.

Apparently from Italian army…

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5_Nb4aNglq/?igsh=MXdhMmV2NHI0eG8xcQ==

Edit* After being achooled in ice history my mind is changed lol. Still ridiculously impressive nonetheless and maybe the most impressive ice feature since Marc Andre’s free solo link ups on the Stanley headwall

Can faintly make out a party of climbers on pitch 3

I was looking into the Petzl Lynx as my first crampons that I could use to dabble in a bit of general mountaineering, dry-tooling, mixed and ice climbing. I really like that they are so configurable from a more glacier travel oriented crampon all the way to a mono point climbing crampon. Does anybody have any experience with these. (I will probably be using them with my Sportiva Aequilibriums, which I know have a lot of flex). Any tips would be welcome!

I stumbled upon this today, an archive of the X-games medal history on espn.com. It looks like Ice Climbing (Difficulty) was an event from at least 1997-1999, and has some legendary names on the podium.

This is extremely cool, but for the life of me I cannot find any media (photos, videos, etc) of these events. This was from before I was born, and while I consume all of the classic mountaineering films, books, etc. I am extremely curious to see what this competition looked like.

If anyone know where I should look, please let me know. If you remember these events, tell us what you recall.

My favorite photo I took from a recent recent trip to the Cabinets. Incredible zone tucked away in northwestern montana. Still so much potential for adventurous climbing out there!

Curious if anybody has used the Ice Rock Spark ice tool? I'm seeing very different reports of the actual weight of the tool from reviews online, does anyone have a tool that they can weigh and report the true weight?

Hi guys, I went on my first 2 week ice climbing trip in February this year and absolutely loved it! Unfortunately, my brand new Scarpa boots ended up being a bit too small, so I'm looking to sell them.

I don't know what an appropriate price reduction is for ~10 days of use on the ice, but I was thinking of 425 excl shipping. Let me know if you are interested so I can send some pictures (you can also find them on Vinted).

If you have any recommendations for boots to try next year (I have very wide feet) please let me know. I might try the new G-summit without the liner.

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Hi Team,

Headed to Denver for work on April 3rd and I'll be dammed if I miss a chance to peak bag. Would anyone else like to climb something fun around that time?

Mostly open to those on the internet who won't rob or murder me.

Btw I am wondering if there are any true first ascents still waiting in BC?

found a Gribel Dark Machine used once for sale for $620. Of course, the basic pick is included, and it also comes with a hammer and katana blade set. Is that a good price?

found a Gribel Dark Machine used once for sale for $620. Of course, the basic pick is included, and it also comes with a hammer and katana blade set. Is that a good price?

Hey gang,

I regularly climb glacier ice with full auto Sarkens and they’ve performed quite well. However, after re-sharpening multiple times, they’re pretty beat up and in need of replacement.

The Dart front section seems like the obvious choice as it can mount into the linking bars for the darken and be my primary climbing crampon, while the Sarkens will be more so for general glacier travel stuff.

Though they’re not too different, is there anyone who has used both the Sarkens/ darts and could comment on the “climbability” between them?

Specifically, the front points of the darts seem a bit more level and sharp, whereas the Sarkens are more downturned and dull from the get go.

Thanks in advance.

Hi everyone! This is my first post here. 🧗🏻‍♀️

I currently have a single OLD Petzl Nomic ice tool (because my second one broke) and so I need to get a second ice tool. Will the new Petzl Nomic be compatible with the old Petzl Nomic ice tool? 🧊

I know the design is slightly different and lighter, but as far as I can tell they are about the same size still. I don't want to have to buy two new ones if I can help it.

Thanks so much for your advice! ❤️

Ok, so my gym allows and sets for dry tooling; not just those wooden tools, but the proper metal pointy hooky things. They just require a helmet (provided) and tethers with the tools configured w/ any hammer or adze out the back. They actually have a competition dry tooling route setter as a rout setter. They do also have the wooden tools to lend as well. I have been climbing up to about 5.9 YDS on those.

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I just got my first set of tools (used Givel North Machines, courtesy of a reddit add) that I tried at the Adirondack International Mountainfest, installed some dry picks that I bought from Europe and got to climb yesterday!

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They presently have 3 routes: a slab D3 and D5 on auto belay and an overhung "comp" route. I finished the two auto belay routes and am a few moves away from figuring the comp route out. I am definitely finding the North Machines tiring especially when matching on the overhung stuff. I knew that would be the case gong in, though. My plan is to get more technical tools down the line, once i find one's that I like.

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I just wanted to share the stoke, especial now that the ice is going to hibernate for the summer near me. I am super happy with everything so far. Roast me on my nubile enthusiasm!