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The Sandstone Ice Festival has expanded, and we've booked the Sunset Club (Sandstone Seniors Center) for the weekend to make room for the first ever "Snow and Adventure Sports Expo".
The garden level will be open Friday evening, all day Saturday, and most of Sunday. Demo gear and vendors now have a warm place to set up base camp, stop by to grab a cup of coffee and check out what's going on.
Saturday night the upper level of the "club" opens for the door prizes and the Sandstone Ice Festival's special guest speaker, Dawn Glanc.
Hope to see you there,

The Sandstone Ice Festival will have of demo gear made available by our awesome sponsors.
The fallowing companies are providing demo gear for the Ice Festival.

Black Diamond - axes and crampons
Vertical Endeavors - will be bringing all their rental gear
La Sportiva - Boots
Scarpa - Boots
Mountain Hard Ware - full line of outer ware
Skiplulk demo sleds and harnesses.


Please support the companies that support the Sandstone Ice Festival.

Tony, is a Mountain Hardwear rep coming to the fest? I want to show him an obvious seam allowance tear on the Stronghold! Should get me a free hat or something to deal with that right? It has a patch now already!

Dawn Glanc is on the Mt Hardware payroll. Be sure and have your Stronghold setup in a key spot during the Ice Festival.



From what I have heard, Mt. Hardware is sending a trunk of demo clothing. All the demo gear; boots, axes, crampons and such will be available to check out from the gear tent in Robinson Quarry.

Check out the great sponsors for this year's ice festival,
www.sandstoneicefest.com/icefst_sponsosrs.htm

Returning sponsors include Vertical Endeavors, the American Alpine Club, Black Diamond, Grand Casino Hinckley, Peace Coffee, Scarpa,and REI. Vega guide services and Ames Adventure Outfitters also have been long time Ice Fest supporters.

Joining the Ice Fest this year are Redpoint Nutrition, makers of CRANK forearm fuel, Mad Rock, Mt hard Ware and the Days Inn Hinckley, the "official" place to stay during the Ice Fest, offering a 15% room discount to festival goers.

And, I can't forget to mention mnadventure.com, for helping to inform the outdoor crowd about the festival and for allowing me to unabashedly plug festival sponsors.

Ice Fest event goers can get a hotel discount from the Days Inn Hinckley.

here's the link

Thank the Hinckley Convention & Visitors Bureau for setting this up.