Icefall climbing this December
Our winter courses start in December, with a 5-day Alpine Ice course, which we run in La Grave (we're also skiing there this year, on our Off Piste Perfection week). La Grave tends to be quite reliable early winter for ice, due to being relatively high and having plenty of north facing aspects, which see little sun. We are actually based down valley in Bourg D'Oisans, which means we can easily get to the Vallon Du Diable, as well as Alpe d'Huez, the latter of which has been a life saver more than once when the ice has been lean.
To join one of the Alpine Ice courses, you don't need to be a great climber, but you do need to know how to abseil and be reasonably fit in the upper body (to hang off your arms), as well as the legs (to get to the routes in the first place!). The best training is actually indoor climbing on steep, juggy routes, unless you are lucky enough to have access to an indoor ice climbing wall, or have somewhere that sets dry tooling routes. The other option is to get hold of the Alpkit Figfour dry tool. This is a great little invention that allows you to climb indoor routes, as if you are pulling on axes!
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