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Private Guiding and Instruction is available anytime (subject to availability) by advance reservation. This is our most popular option.  Rates.

Discounted Climb (or Ski) and Stay Packages are available with our friends here in town at Keene Valley Lodge on any non-holiday, midweek (Sun-Thur) night. Climb or ski with Cloudsplitter guides on midweek days and enjoy a good night's rest and a hearty breakfast at KV Lodge. Rates start @ $265 for a day of private guiding (w/ equipment & footwear), and one nights' lodging and breakfast. Contact us for more details.

Ice Primers are open-enrollment ice climbing programs for novice and intermediate ice climbers seeking mileage and technique on a variety of routes. $110 / climber.

Ice Fevers are open-enrollment ice climbing programs for intermediate and advanced ice climbers seeking mileage and technique on a variety of harder and more challenging ice and mixed routes. $110 / climber.

Technical Workshops are open-enrollment instructional clinics, offered on select Friday afternoons (1- 4:30 pm). Tune-up your climbing and/or skiing equipment or practice techniques for efficient belay management and self-rescue. $65 / climber.

Summit Climbs are open-enrollment (up to 5:2) summit climbs of the Adirondack's best technical winter mountaineering routes on Mt. Colden's Trap Dyke and the North Face of Gothics. (Prerequisites: winter hiking, half-day of ice climbing experience) $210 / climber.

WINTER CALENDAR 2010 (color coded PDF version)

December
    Sat. 12/ 5          Cloudsplitter winter season begins.
    Fri. 12/ 18          Ice Gear Tune Up Workshop (1- 4:30 pm)   
    Sat. 12/ 19         Ice Primer
    Sat. 12/ 26         Mt. Colden Summit Climb (via Trap Dyke)
    Sat. 12/ 26         Ice Fever
    Mon. 12/ 28        Ice Primer
    Wed. 12/ 30        Ice Fever

January
     Fri. 1/ 1         Self-Rescue Workshop (1-4:30 pm)
    Sat.  1/ 2        Ice Primer
    Fri. 1/ 8          Efficient Belay Management Workshop  (1-4:30 pm)
    Sat. 1/ 9         Ice Fever
    Sat-Sun, 1/ 15-16    Adirondack International MOUNTAINFEST
    Sat. 1/ 23        Mt. Colden Summit Climb (via Trap Dyke)
    Sat. 1/ 23        Ice Primer
    Fri. 1/ 29         Efficient Belay Management Workshop (1- 4:30 pm)
    Sat. 1/ 30        Ice Primer

February
    Fri-Sun, 2/ 5-7    Emilie @ Mt. Washington Valley Ice Festival (NH)
    Sat.-Sun. 2/5-6   Mountaineer & Dynafit Ski Mountaineering Camp
    Fri. 2/ 12            Ski Gear Tune-Up Workshop (1-4:30 pm)
    Sat. 2/ 13           Ice Primer
    Mon. 2/15           Ice Primer
    Wed. 2/ 17          Ice Fever
    Fri. 2/ 19            Self-Rescue Clinic (1-4:30 pm)
    Sat. 2/ 20           Mt. Colden Summit Climb (via Trap Dyke)
    Sat. 2/20            Ice Fever
    Sat. 2/ 27           Gothics Mt. Summit Climb (via North Face)
   
March
    Sat-Sun. 3/ 6-7    Adirondack Backcountry SKIFEST
    Sat. 3/ 20            Gothics Mt. Summit Climb (via North Face)

April
    1-5            Rock Camp: Joshua Tree National Park, CA
 

What to do and when to do it? Although we do climb all months of the year in the Adirondacks, there are optimal seasons:

For rock climbing and summer mountaineering it's May-October. Obviously fall is the best!

The ice climbing and winter mountaineering season usually runs from December- April. Backcountry ski conditions are usually best from February- April.

Alpine expeditions and rock camps are always scheduled to take advantage of optimal conditions. That means spring and fall rock camps in the desert and alpine trips in the summer!

Some summer alpine climbing trips to start thinking about:

North Cascades Classics- North Cascades National Park, Washington. The Lower 48's best alpine classics: Mt. Rainier, Shuksan, Eldorado, Dorado Needle, Sahale, Forbidden and Baker are all on the table. Private and semi-private guding will be available in July and August 2010. Contact us for more information.

Little Switzerland Expedition- Denali National Park, Alaska. Alpine rock, AK style. 'If you like traditional rock climbing, this is the alpine climbing trip of a lifetime.' Private and small group trips are available for our repeat clientele. We have availability on a trip that is in the works for late June-early July 2010. Please contact us for more information.