As passionate climbers, our lives revolve around the quality of our natural world.  If we trash the environment, we trash our climbing.  It seems simple.  So as passionate climbers we have to be passionate conservationists.

Running a big event like Michigan Ice Fest can certainly be a challenge when it comes to environmental ethics.  The act of getting a thousand people together in one place can generate a tremendous amount of waste.  Just look in the trash can at the end of any of our after parties. It’s not necessary and it’s something we are always looking to improve.

That’s why we are so excited to announce that for the the 2019 Michigan Ice Fest we are partnering with Klean Kanteen as part of their Bring Your Own campaign to reduce our reliance on single use plastic cups.  This will cut down on hundreds (thousands if we know ice climbers) of cups going to the landfill.

We will have Klean Kanteen stainless steel pint glasses for the first 800 people that register.  That’s right, 800 people will get a Michigan Ice Fest logo pint glass from Klean Kanteen.  It’s included with your registration.  During our afterparties we pour hundreds of glasses of FREE BEER and your glass is your ticket to the free beer.  We will only be pouring the free beer into those glasses. We also suggest you to use them throughout the weekend at other events and establishments to further reduce your waste.

Last year we had over 1,000 people at the people event so we encourage you to sign up early to ensure you get your pint glass and free beer.  We’d also like to encourage you to think of other ways reduce your reliance on single use plastics.  Together, we can all make a difference and help protect both our environment and our climbing.