Fox Mountain Guides and Climbing School

Ice Climbing presents one of the most technically diverse styles of climbing.  One must learn to manage extreme conditions in an extreme environment.  Anyone who has experienced extreme cold can tell you that.  One must learn to use, maintain, and modify a broad range of tools from apparel, to crampons, to ice axes, to mountaineering boots, to ice screws and accessories.  Anyone who has dropped a tool off a multipitch climb or clawed the calf off a $300 pair of gore-tex pants can tell you that.  One must learn to mingle in a new and interesting climbing culture.  Anyone who has tried to dry socks on a car heater while making espresso in 10 degree weather and chatting with friends while shivering can tell you that.

With so much to learn, Fox Mountain Guides answers the call from students around the world who are interested in more than just a great experience on the ice.  Many people want to learn to go ice climbing with their friends and family, they want to make informed purchases and own their own equipment, and they want to be a part of the ice climbing community.  Fox Mountain Guides and Climbing School is the best place to start your journey: the only AMGA Accredited Climbing School in the Southeast, the most experienced and talented ice climbing instructors available in the Southeast, and tested course curriculums that have proven track records, preparing to students to venture out on the ice themselves.

There are two basic products to choose from: Privates instruction and ice climbing Courses.  The student who seeks private instruction works with a certified and experienced ice climbing instructor to explore the skills that they wish to learn.  Our instructors are career educators who innovate privately oriented curriculums to help individual students acquire the mastery they are looking for. 

Our ice climbing Courses, Ice 101 and Ice 201, invite groups of ice climbers with comparable experience to work together.  These curriculums are of an introductory nature, focusing on basic movement, equipment and apparel, and technical systems.