January 5, 2015 IMG guide Mark Allen send a couple of photos today from a private training group. Mark’s team is practicing skills related to future expedition climbing, specifically ascending and descending fixed lines with a mechanical ascender. The team spent today on Dexter Slabs, a natural ice formation outside of the Ouray Ice Park. […]
December 23, 2014 Our Ice Climbing programs are now in full swing in Ouray, Colorado. The Ice Park is just now ready to open due to a stretch of warmer weather earlier in the season. Luckily all is on track now for good conditions. The climbing in the backcountry has been good from the very […]
December 10, 2014 It’s December and guides are starting to arrive in Ouray for the winter season. We’ve been out exploring some of the area classics–the backcountry ice is coming in quite nicely, and some normally thin routes are in as fat as they’ve been in a long time. Currently the weather is temperate […]
January 22, 2014 It’s been a stellar start to the season here in Ouray. When I showed up here just before the new year, the ice was already in great shape–I wished I’d been here a month earlier! The awesome conditions continue: The ice park is as good as ever, the backcountry climbs are in […]
January 9, 2014 frozen waterfall my legs burning, toes are numb climbing in ouray
December 17, 2013 IMG Guide Mark Allen reports on the status of the Ouray climbing scene: The 2014 Ouray Colorado Ice climbing has started and is in full season. IMG customers have already enjoyed the early start with a multitude of back country ice climbs available that are in above average seasonal condition. The first […]
February 13, 2012 In late January IMG guides met in Ouray, Colorado to review ice guiding skills and to share the latest techniques and technologies. With over 200 routes in the ice-park and dozens of backcountry climbs a short drive from town there is never a shortage of ice real estate to play on in […]
February 7, 2012 It has been a couple of years since I made it out to Ouray, CO. Not by choice, just by circumstance. I’ve missed it. I love the scene here and the way the town embraces ice climbers and makes them feel like favored guests. So I agreed to meet up with my […]
January 17, 2012 Our Veterans have another wonderful week climbing ice in and around Ouray, Colorado! Read on! “Imagine an expedition with excellent climbing and access to a hot springs on the trip. No, I’m not talking about going to Ecuador and lounging in the Papallatca spa at the end of the trip. That trip […]
January 13, 2011 After a wax and wane of December weather, the conditions here in SW Colorado are balancing out very nicely. Everything that traditionally comes in has formed fantastic shape and some more allusive climbs have come in as well. The Ice park is also in great form, even after 1000 climbers came through […]
