ICE CLIMBING
Club Trips
Each winter MITOC runs numerous ice climbing trips to low-level crags in New Hampshire. These trips are open to beginers and all technical gear can be rented from the club. Typical destinations are Rumney, Flume Gorge and Kinsman Notch. Typically these trips are run through a part of winter school but continue throughout the spring. Get in touch with the club if you aren't a part of winter school but would like to get out on some ice!
Locations
Please note that these locations are meant as a rough guide and that the guide book is your best bet for finding accurate information.
Safety
MITOC owns a bunch of safety glasses so there is no excuse to not wear eye protection during any MITOC trip. Participants should for sure be wearing either some of these glasses, some glasses of their own or some ski-goggles (in addition to always wearing a helmet). Also, in rock climbing situations there's a chance a rock might come down so it's wise to designate a "helmet zone". In ice climbing, you're pretty much guaranteed to have ice coming down (and perhaps other gear) so instead of just a helmet zone, be sure to also include a "no stand zone" with a pretty wide radius around the fall zone so that people aren't inclined to belay / hang out / shuffle their packs in an unsafe location.