What is the ADK Winter Mountaineering School and who runs it?
The ADK Winter Mountaineering School was started over 50 years ago in a response to a significant increase in the number of young, inexperienced, aspiring mountaineers taking to the mountains during the winter. The Adirondack Mountain Club (ADK) provided a small operating budget to a dedicated group of instructors to provide instruction on safe climbing and camping during the winter. Over the years the program has evolved, and for a number of years was run cooperatively with the Appalachian Mountain Club with sections running in both the Adirondacks and White Mountains. The Winter Mountaineering School has provided instruction for many well-known mountaineers in the Northeast, including a number of authors of popular winter camping books written for the region. The program is staffed and run by an enthusiastic, all-volunteer pool of instructors who have themselves began as students at the Winter Mountaineering School and therefore all share a common understanding of the winter mountain
