Clara Maynard's Climbing: trad, sport, ice, rock, mixed, alpine, aid. Rescue & Wilderness Medicine Instructor Gear & Expert Recommendations
AMGA Apprentice Rock/Alpine Guide & Wilderness Medicine Instructor
Pacific Northwest, USAIf you’re gonna be dumb you gotta be strong!
AMGA Apprentice Rock Guide & Apprentice Alpine Guide ~ Ice, Mixed, & Alpine Climber ~ Wilderness Medicine Instructor ~ Advanced EMT with Parkmedic ALS training ~ Former National Park Service Ranger ~ Mountain Rescue Association Member
Discipline: Climbing: trad, sport, ice, rock, mixed, alpine, aid. Rescue & Wilderness Medicine Instructor
Specialty: Ice, Mixed, & Alpine Climbing
Hard Ice & Mixed Climbing: climbs up to WI6+ M8+, has climbed 7 routes on the Storm Creek Headwall, 4 routes on the Stanley Headwall, and many classic WI6 routes in the Canadian Rockies Big Alpine Routes in the Cascades and Bugaboos: Thin Red Line on Liberty Bell, the Beckey-Chouinard on South Howser Tower, a car-to-car ascent of the Direct N Ridge of Mount Stuart, and 5 different routes on Mount Rainier Wilderness Medicine & Rescue Career: Former National Park Service Ranger, Wilderness Medicine Instructor, Advanced EMT with Parkmedic ALS training, Mountain Rescue Association Member
Expert Gear Picks from Clara Maynard
Expert climbing: trad, sport, ice, rock, mixed, alpine, aid. rescue & wilderness medicine instructor gear recommendations from Clara Maynard, AMGA Apprentice Rock/Alpine Guide & Wilderness Medicine Instructor, based in Pacific Northwest, USA.
Clara Maynard's Ice Climbing
My favorite gear to be warm, safe, and comfortable
Clara Maynard recommends the La Sportiva G-Summit
Clara Maynard recommends the Blue Ice Aero — Best ice screw on the market in my opinion. Lighter than the Petzl ultralight screws!
Clara Maynard recommends the Petzl Petzl Nomic Ice Tool — Best all around tool for my hands. I use it these for almost everything. No head weights for me though!
Clara Maynard recommends the Grivel G20 Plus — I prefer monos over duals I feel like it reduces the calf pump for me.
Clara Maynard recommends the Blue Ice Aero Lite — I use a 19 or 22cm for glacier travel. Lightest screw per cm on the market.
Clara Maynard recommends the High Mountain Gear Ice Screw Cannon — The only ice screw storage and transport that is worth purchasing in my opinion. It just makes sense!
