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How To Go From “Sport Weenie” To Ice Climbing Diva

How To Go From “Sport Weenie” To Ice Climbing Diva: Today we are lucky enough to have guest contributor Alexa Siegel share her best tips for how to go from being an obsessive sport climber to an all-out ice climbing machine. She shares her story of how she fell in love with the sport, and why she thinks you can too! I grew up in the suburbs of Boston and started my climbing career in …

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Way More Than Ice Climbing: Chicks With Picks

Inspiration

Way More Than Ice Climbing: Climbing in itself can be an intimidating sport to enter, so attempting to enter a sport that combines climbing AND an ice ax seems even more daunting. Chicks with Picks tears down those perceived barriers by providing access, instruction, and support to enter the ice climbing world, from a bad-ass group of women. Today, Annie Hughes shares her Chicks with Picks story, and the inspiring women who taught her so much more than …

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Ice, Ice Baby: Beginner Ice Climbing Tips

Gear Gossip, Girl Talk

Beginner ice climbing tips; Hopefully, Beth convinced you that ice climbing is rad and you should definitely give it a try. If not, re-read her article, then picture yourself clutching ice axes with Wolverine-like claws coming out of your boots, and tell me that lovely image doesn’t make you smile just a bit… Today Beth and Crux Crush share 6 tips to keep in mind for your first time out climbing ice. (As always, don’t …

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