Lillooet Ice Festival 2025

Lillooet Ice Festival 2025

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Get Ready for the Lillooet Ice Festival 2025!
Jan 17-19


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Ice, ice, baby! The Lillooet Ice Festival is just around the corner, and we’ve planned a great event. Mark your calendars, because from January 17-19, the charming town of Lillooet plays host to the premier west coast ice festival.

Join us for a weekend packed with laughter, socializing, the latest gear, and fantastic ice climbing clinics. Bring your desire to learn. In addition to full day climbing clinics, we added shorter 3 hour skills clinics, and 1 hour workshops.

With music, delicious food, and amazing prizes, the Lillooet Ice Festival brings ice climbers together in a celebration of our community. This festival values inclusivity and strives to break down barrier’s allowing all climbers to participate and feel a sense of belonging.

Don’t let the cold feet stop you - we can’t wait to see you there!

This event will take place on the unceded and ancestral territory of the St’át’imcets speaking peoples of the St’át’imc Nation, and has been stewarded by them since time immemorial. The term unceded acknowledges the dispossession of the land and the inherent rights that St’át’imc Nation hold to the territory. The term serves as a reminder that St’át’imc have never left their territory and will always retain their jurisdiction and relationships with the territory. We are visitors - please be respectful.

 

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Lillooet Ice Festival 2025 Itinerary

Friday, January 17, 2025

  • 5:00 PM - Registration Opens - please have Gov Photo ID ready to get your ticket from our registration volunteers!

    Location: Lillooet Brewing Company
    Get ready to kick off the weekend! Check in, grab your festival ticket & t-shirt, and enjoy mingling with other climbers around the fire pit.

  • Vendor Village at the Brewery: located just outside the brewery, on the patio area we will have all the major brands with their demo fleets of ice tools and crampons to try for free: Petzl, Black Diamond, CAMP

  • Inside the brewery we will have representatives from the Association of Canadian Mountain Guides.

  • 7:00 PM - Workshop: Ice Climbers Pack (1 hour) Registration $20, Max: 10

    Location: Lillooet Brewing Company
    Learn what experienced ice climbers and guides pack for a day out ice climbing. This workshop includes what to wear while climbing.

  • 10:00 PM - Registration Closes
    Head back to your motel room and get a good night’s sleep to prepare for your exhilarating clinic or climb the next day.

Saturday, January 18, 2025

  • 6:00 AM - Breakfast at Abundance Bakery
    Start your day purchasing coffee and a delicious croissant breakfast sandwich to fuel your adventures!
    Ice climber’s special: Brown Bag Lunches being sold.

  • 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM Festival/Clinics Registration - proceed to the registration table. Please have Gov Photo ID ready to check-in for your clinic or the festival if you got in late!

    Location: Lillooet Brewing Company
    Check-in, meet your guide, visit the Vendor Village to demo the latest gear!

  • 5:00 PM - Icy Social Kickoff & Registration Available

  • 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Registration Table - please have Gov Photo ID ready to get your ticket from our registration volunteers!

    Location: Lillooet Brewing Company
    Enjoy the culinary crafts of Lillooet’s food truck, or indulge in a Brewery Pizza. Don’t forget about their award winning frosty beverages.
    Visit Vendor Village to see the latest ice climbing gear and show your support for our sponsors.
    Get toasty around the fire ring while having expert Reps at your fingertips to ask questions.

  • 5:00 PM - Workshop: Knots for Climbers (1 hour) Registration $20, Max: 10

    Location: Lillooet Brewing Company
    Learn the most important knots you’ll ever need to know climbing. Don’t leave without learning the cardinal rules for tying knots!

  • 7:00 PM - Tim Emmett Presentation
    The moment we’ve all been waiting for! Grab a beverage and get comfortable. Hear Tim recount ice climbing tales as he takes us on a spectacular look into the craziest and wildest ice climbing places in Western Canada and around the world.

  • 9:00 PM - Music & Social
    Enjoy the music! While some may be finding their groove in an open space, others will be propping up the walls while listening to a stranger recount their greatest climbing adventures. Shake hands and say hello to the Guides and Professional Climbers - they get lonely.

  • 10:00 PM Registration Closes

  • 11:00 PM - Icy Social Closes
    Return to your motel room for a good night’s sleep, and to prepare for all the adventures on Sunday. Drink responsibly and don’t drive if you’ve had more than 10 ozs ( 1 glass) of beer.

Sunday, January 19, 2025

  • 6:00 AM - Breakfast at Abundance Bakery
    Last chance to stock up on baked goods and sip a delicious coffee before the adventures begin!
    Ice climber’s special: Brown Bag Lunches being sold.

  • 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM Clinics Registration - proceed to the registration table. Please have Gov Photo ID ready to check-in for your clinic!

    Location: Lillooet Brewing Company
    Check-in, meet your guide, visit the Vendor Village to demo the latest gear!

  • 3:00 PM - Demo Gear Return
    Please return all demo gear to Vendor Village Reps.

  • 3:30 PM - Festival Farewell
    Say your goodbyes and start dreaming about next year’s festival. We can't wait to see you in 2026!

Pack your gloves, bring your smile, and get ready for a good time!