Ice Climbing Extravaganza

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Snow Factor 23 Nov 2015

Snow Factor and Ice Factor would like to invite climbers, hill walkers and anyone interested in the world of mountaineering to a weekend of talks, workshops, equipment sale and climbing movies, Distilled by Hot Aches and the winter chapter of their new movie called Transition!

Full Details:

The weekend’s events will take place at Snow Factor, Braehead with the fun kicking off upstairs in the Cuillins B conference room at 1830 on Friday the 27th November where our very own resident route setter and climber Kev Shields will be delivering a presentation on his climbing experience and his story. This will then be followed by an equipment sale in the adjacent room. Climbing movies will be played in the bar area from 1930.

An ice climbing taster session will be available at 2015 to 2145 at the price of £15 pp. These sessions will be sold on a first come first served basis, please call Snow Factor on 0871 222 5672. Smoke damage clothing & equipment mega sale (up to 70% off)

Saturday the 28th will kick off at 1300 with Kev Shields and Joe Saunders delivering a dry tooling and steep ice climbing work shop, there will be limited spaces available so please contact the sales team to book your place, the cost will be £5 pp for a session, the session times are as follows. 1300 – 1430 hrs and 1500 – 1630 hrs. These sessions will be sold on a first come first served basis, please call Snow Factor on 0871 222 5672.
Pete Hyde our resident technical advisor and mountaineering instructor will then be delivering a talk on mountain safety and avalanche awareness, this will again be held in the Cuillins B conference room at 1830 hrs. The equipment and clothes sale will be open through out the day from 1300 to 2000. Bar Varia will be playing climbing movies from 1930.

There will be an ice climbing taster session commencing at 1945 to 2115 at the price of £15 pp. These sessions will be sold on a first come first served basis, please call Snow Factor on 0871 222 5672. Smoke damage clothing & equipment mega sale (up to 70% off)

Sunday the 29th is for the children, we will be running introduction to ice climbing sessions for children between the age of 12 to 18, as long as their foot size is adult size 4 or above. During this time the team will aim to get all involved through our very own skills 1 proficiency award. The sessions times are as follows, 1200 – 1330; 1400-1530 and 1600-1730. There will be no evening presentation, the equipment and the smoke damage clothing & equipment mega sale (up to 70% off) will continue from 1300 with the sale event closing at 1800.

Book now call Snow Factor on 0871 222 5672

Important Information:

Please be aware that the above mentioned prices are for this weekend only.
Could all those taking part with our workshops and our junior intro to ice sessions please arrive and sign in at our front desk at least 15 minutes before the session start time.
All booking should be made by phoning the centre on 0871 222 5672 .
We will try and accommodate as many visitors as possible for our presentations however we will be working on a first come first serve basis so please arrive early!
We can provide all technical equipment required for the workshops and ice sessions including boots, our smallest boot is a size 4. Please come equipped with enough warm clothes for up to 1.5 hours of very cold fun!
All Climbers and Climbing Clubs Welcome for a night of climber talks, tips and tricks, smoke damage sale with top brands, and £5pp ice climbing sessions (Subject to space availability)
Sale items are sold as smoke damaged and are sold as seen. No refunds will be given.


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