The Icicle Inn is northwest of where you exit from the Corel Valley Cave. Travel there on foot using the screenshots below to help find the small village:

Start by entering the house on the left, which is the Weapon Store. The weapons for sale include:

• Organics
• Dragon Claw
• Microlaser
• Adaman Clip
• Hawkeye
• Red M-phone
• Mast Ax
• Lariat

These weapons are generally great upgrades for most of your characters. Red XIII’s Seraph Comb from Cosmo Canyon is better than the Adaman Clip, and Yuffie’s Magic Shuriken (which you would only have if you completed the Wutai side quest) is arguably better than the Hawkeye (with the exception being the number of Materia slots).

The remaining weapons are significant upgrades over your previous weapons in terms of Attack Power, Attack % and typically with increases in the number of Materia slots. You should purchase the Dragon Claw for Tifa and Microlaser for Barret, as you will have to use both of them in an upcoming portion of the game.

The man behind the counter of the Weapons Store also sells Tents and Hi-Potions if you need them.

Travel to the house on the far right side, where two girls out front are building a snowman. Be sure to grab the map hanging on the wall in the middle of the room. The “Glacier Map” will help you navigate through the next location that’s coming up shortly.

There is also a Hero Drink and a Vaccine that you can pick up in the room at the back.

Travel to the Inn, located just north of the house that had the Glacier Map. There is a big sign out front that reads “Inn.” Speak to the lady at the front counter to rest your characters for 200 gil.

Proceed up to the second floor of the Inn, and you will find an X-Potion in the left corner—you can faintly see it flashing through the window.

The last house to enter is the one just north of the Weapon Store (on the upper-left side of town) called Gast’s house in the menu screen.

You can examine the computer on the back wall and play the video to learn more information about Hojo and his experiments involving the Ancients.

There is a Turbo Ether in the basement of this building.

Travel north down the trail that leads out of town. The man standing at the north edge of town will warn you not to go past this point. Choose the “I’m still going” option, and a scene will occur involving Elena and the Turks.

Elena will attempt to punch you shortly—just press or on the directional pad and then to dodge it when prompted. If you fail to dodge her punch, you will wind up back in Gast’s House.

Enter the house in the center of town and speak to the little boy at the back of the house. He will offer to lend you his snowboard, having recently suffered an injury.

The cat will move out of the way, allowing you to pick up the “Snowboard” Key Item off the bed. This time, when you proceed out the back end of town, the man will just tell you to be careful.

Enjoy the snowboard mini-game. While you complete this mini-game, the path will split two different times. You have the option of taking four different trails:

• Left and then left
• Left and then right
• Right and then left
• Right and then right

The controls for the snowboard mini-game are:

• and on the directional pad to go left and right
• to Jump
• to Brake
• or to Edge (take turns sharper)
• to Pause

Depending on the path you take, you could wind up in a few different areas of the Great Glacier. Check out the Great Glacier page for more information, but the guide on the next page will begin in the Area (3). You’ll arrive in this section of the Great Glacier if you choose both left paths.