When they opened the massive new facility with 60-foot-high walls in October of 2023, they were already bidding to hold an ice-climbing World Cup. “They dreamed about this for years,” said ...

In addition to the 40-foot ice wall, the competition continued with what is called a dry tooling event on Climbing Collective’s 60-foot outdoor wall. “Dry tooling simulates outdoor ice climbing.

Luciuk hopes to have the ice wall complete and open to the public (complete with equipment rentals) by mid-January. This is the fifth rendition of the ice wall.