The Ice Coop in the News
American Alpine Club
Meet the 2024 US World Cup Ice Climbing Team
Sixteen of the newly selected team members climb and train at The Ice Coop in Boulder, Colorado. These athletes will be competing in Switzerland, South Korea, France, and Canada this coming winter.
UIAA Results
The Ice Coop’s Catalina Shirley wins bronze in the 2023 World Cup!
The winners of the women’s speed event in the first UIAA World Cup of the 2022-23 season, held in Cheongsong, South Korea are:
1. Lee Sughee (KOR)
2. Aneta Louzecka (CZE)
3. Catalina Shirley (USA)
The Daily Camera
Here’s the scoop on ‘The Coop,’ North America’s first drytooling gym
It all started back in 2015, when Nederland-based Sally Gilman was looking for an indoor facility where she could sharpen her ice skills for the upcoming season.
UIAA Results
Ice Coop competitors sweep the Men’s and Women’s Finals in the North American Championships
The winners of this year’s finalists in the competition, held in Ouray, Colorado, are:
First place: Wes Fowler
Second place: Kevin Lindlau
Third place: Tyler Kempney
First place: Catalina Shirley
Second place: Corey Buhay
Climbing Magazine
Americans Make History: Two Gold Medals at European Ice Climbing Cups
Before November 27, 2021, no American had ever won a stage of the Ice Climbing European Continental Cup series. Now, Tyler Kempney, age 30, of Louisville, Colorado, has won two….
Colorado Public Radio
In Ouray, Colorado, a world-famous festival draws thousands to climb chandeliers of ice
January 2022: A crowd dressed in bright, puffy jackets whooped and clapped from the edge of a gut-twistingly deep gorge. Below them, a young guy with pink hair and an axe in each hand raced against a clock, propelling himself up what looked like plunging chandeliers of ice — the world-famous ice of the Ouray Ice Park, just a short hike up from the tiny town in southwestern Colorado.
UIAA Results
Ice Coopers crush it at the Ice Climbing World Cup Championships
Results from the 2021 competition in Saas-Fee, Switzerland:
Keenan Griscom: 1st Place U19
Catalina Shirley: 3rd Place U20
Tyler Kempney: 5th Place Open
The Denver Post
Colorado is home to the country’s only indoor ice climbing gym — and it looks as cool as it sounds
With her purple ponytail dangling beneath a grey helmet, Ceri Evans kicked one crampon-clad foot, then the other, into the plywood walls of The Ice Coop, a unique Boulder climbing gym, on a recent snowy Wednesday evening…
Climbing Magazine
The Ouray Ice Fest Returns After Two Years of Uncertainty. It Was Their Best Yet
January 2022: Ever since the Ouray Ice Festival was founded in 1996 by climbing legend Jeff Lowe, the event has been a cornerstone of both the state and national ice climbing scene. Needless to say, the community felt the blow when public health guidelines forced the fest to go virtual last year.
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