Ready to up your trad game? Looking for a spring primer on your trad skills? Join us for a day of hands-on clinical training that will get you prepared and stoked for spring climbing!

Building on our partnership with the Gravity Vault, we are happy to be bringing back our WinterFest.

Our full-day event will be packed with hands-on clinics like: anchor building/cleaning, self-rescue, rappelling, crack climbing and a reprise of the sold-out Fall GunksFest Seconding Clinic.

These master classes will be taught by an all-star roster of local guides and will be offered on a rotating schedule throughout the day. A General Admission ticket entitles you to two clinics, a day of climbing, and access to our pizza social!

Last year's clinics sold out incredibly fast, and with limited slots per clinic be sure to book yours now.

And we are beyond pleased to welcome back Jackie Pearce LMT from Hudson Valley RAPID to offer complementary ten minute RAPID NeuroFascial Reset sessions to get you out of pain and back to climbing at your best. Jackie was a huge hit at our flagship GunksFest last fall!

To close our event we’ll have a pizza party sponsored by Rock and Snow.

This year WinterFest 2026 kicks off with two nights of the No Man’s Land Film Festival tour. Eight curated short films by and/or about women in the outdoors telling stories about climbing, arctic guiding, skiing, historic alpinism and more in this thoughtful and stoke-filled lineup. The 2 hour program with an intermission is being shown in proud partnership with the DENIZEN Theater in New Paltz with identical shows at 7:30 both Friday and Saturday March 20 & 21. Tickets are only $15 and available at denizentheater.org.

Please make sure you purchase the correct tickets. When purchasing tickets, you must purchase a General Admission ticket, and then select up to 2 add-on clinics (free with General Admission). If you do not purchase a General Admission ticket, any clinics you sign up for will be cancelled. Also please note that each participant should purchase their own ticket.

Pay attention to the time and length of your clinics to make sure they do not overlap, and please be prompt for your sessions - they will start as scheduled.

♿️ Accessible event