I noticed a couple of ice climbers at the ski resort this weekend. They had their skis on with big backpacks and a couple of ice axes each. So it’s timely when my scanners hit a couple of winter climbing references. Unfortunately, only one was about ice climbing, but both were fun reads.

Ice climbing fills void for winter adventurers is a great article about ice climbing from the Poughkeepsie Journal. It explains why climbers do or don’t ice.

I really wished Climbing and skiing in Colorado’s backcountry wrote about rock/ice climbing and skiing in Colorado. That probably would make me fly out there right away. Instead, it’s still a great article about a 100-mile ski trek in Colorado, where you climb up over a thousand feet. You stay in huts, which might sounds a little misleading, because they’re really nice cabins.