High-resolution ice-core analysis requires sampling methods that preserve millimeter to sub-millimeter spatial information. We evaluate ambient-pressure femtosecond laser ablation (fs-LA) as a solid-phase and geometry-tolerant sampling method for water ice under cold, dry laboratory conditions. At 35 <em>µ</em>J and 50 kHz, visible localized craters were produced at all tested exposure times, with mean inner diameters of approximately 87–165 <em>µ</em>m. Crater formation was repeatable at a 0.5 mm pitch along 400-position scan paths. The 1 s exposure produced the smallest sampling footprint and largest fraction of craters without visible rims, supporting fs-LA as a platform for future cryospheric analyses.