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Monthly Program:

Mud Duck and Tabone "Ski" the Disappointment Cleaver Route on Mt. Rainier

published by bill on Thu, 2024-08-29 17:46
Date: 
Tue, 2024-10-22

In late May of 2024 Greg Huey (Mud Duck) and Tadz Kostrubala (Tabone) successfully summitted and “skied” the Disappointment Cleaver (DC) Route on Rainier. Join us for this presentation as they discuss the DC route, which is the standard ascent for Rainier and the not-so-standard ski descent attempt. The DC route is the most popular route to the summit of Washington State's highest mountain, which peaks out at 14,411 feet. The route climbs 9,000 feet on snowfields and glaciers. They will share our adventures, trials and tribulations, the DC route history, and considerations for anyone who might attempt the route.

Greg "Mud Duck" Huey was born and raised in Oklahoma and educated in New Mexico where he stumbled upon his uncanny ability and desire to suffer in the mountains. He has summitted Denali twice and Mt. Rainer five times now. When not recovering from a hip replacement he enjoys traveling the world for his job, playing rugby and making no sense during campfire sessions that last late into the night.

Tadz "Tabone" Kostrubala fell in love with the mountains while partially growing up in Mammoth, California. After migrating throughout several western states he landed up 20 years ago in New Mexico and has been enchanted ever since. Generally washed up, he likes to reflect back on his time as an Outward Bound instructor, desert climbing rat, and other exploits. When not bossing people around as an engineering manager at LANL he can be found on the ski hill at 6 AM most Tuesdays and Thursdays hiking or skinning.

We welcome all to this Mountaineers’ meeting, on the regular fourth Tuesday of the month. The social hour, with cookies, begins at 6:45 PM and the program at 7:00 PM. The presentation will be streamed at Los Alamos Nature Center; the slides will be live-streamed on Zoom. Registration is required to Zoom and recommended for in-person – we would love to see your smiling face. Registration details will be posted once they are available.

Heading towards the summit of Mount Rainier

 

Ongoing Events


 

Monthly Public Meeting and Presentation:


Normally held in the planetarium of the Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC)
on the fourth Tuesday of each month. Now offering hybrid meetings with in-person and zoom options! Sign up for each talk at the Monthly Program page.

Social at 6:45.  Reports of recent and upcoming trips at 7:05pm.   Program to follow.

Visitors are always welcome!  Free refreshments!

Past presentations, and occasionally future, can be viewed here

 

Future Club Speakers:  In addition to frequent presentations by nationally known adventurers, we love to hear from our own members....not that some of you aren't in that group.  A presentation gets you a free club membership and dinner at the restaurant of your choice in Los Alamos.

LAM Member Presentations Wanted! The LAM Board would like to encourage our members to provide more of our monthly presentations.  We understand well that club members are an active lot, with a wealth of activities in their repertoire that can and have been inspiring to new and old members alike.  We have often focused our monthly presentations on the elite of the outdoor adventure world, and perhaps created the undesired effect of squelching the voices of our own members who participate in frequent beautiful and exciting adventures of their own.  Although our own activities are not always "world class", they are representative of what we "weekend" athletes can and do accomplish.  We want many of our programs to inspire the "I can do that" attitude in our members, not merely entertain.  Shock and awe may have their rightful place, but inspiration to participate and shine is our true goal.

 

Trip Leaders:  Post your trip by logging in and then going here.  If you do not have an account, contact  the webmaster. For overnight trips, please ensure that membership waivers for participants are current and recorded by the club Membership Chairperson prior to your trip. Non-members may participate in day trips. All club sponsored trips require the trip waiver. After the trip, please scan and email a PDF of the waiver to the Trip Coordinator.

Trip Leader Awards: The club will recognize trip leaders as described here.

Borrow Equipment: We have a limited amount of mountaineering equipment for loan (e.g., avalanche transceivers). Contact our Equipment Manager listed on this page.

 

 

Trip Leaders: Anyone can lead a trip! Post your trip by logging in and then going here. If you do not have an account, contact the webmaster. For overnight trips, please ensure that membership waivers for participants are current and recorded by the club Membership Chairperson prior to your trip. Non-members may participate in day trips. All club sponsored trips require the trip waiver. After the trip, please scan and email a PDF of the waiver to the Trip Coordinator.

  • Bisti Badlands

    published by AnnSatsangi on Mon, 2024-09-23 06:27
    Leader: 
    Ann Satsangi and Clarissa Yablinski
    Telephone: 
    240-672-7110
    Date: 
    Sat, 2024-10-19
    Leader Email: 
    Annsats74@gmail.com
    Difficulty: 
    Easy
    Technicality: 
    Beginner
    Are dogs allowed?: 
    Allowed

    Join Clarissa and Ann for a weekend trip camping in the NM Bisti Badlands.  We plan to  depart Los Alamos Saturday morning drive to set up camp the night and return Sunday morning.  From the base camp we will explore the area with various hikes tailored to the group.  The weekend chosen is just following a full moon so the hoodoos in the moonlight should be magical too.   You will need your own camping gear and food.

  • LAM/PEEC Hike to Rosie's point

    published by sylvie.adam01 on Fri, 2024-09-27 07:16
    Leader: 
    Sylvie Adam
    Telephone: 
    2062804541
    Date: 
    Sat, 2024-10-19
    Leader Email: 
    sylvieadam01@gmail.com
    Difficulty: 
    Moderate
    Technicality: 
    Intermediate
    Are dogs allowed?: 
    Not allowed

    Admission

    • Free  -  PEEC or LAM member
    • $5.00  -  Non-member

    Registration:

    Register on the PEEC webste at https://peecla.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/peecla/eventRegistration.jsp?e...

    Location

    Meet at the West end of the Pajarito Ski Hill
    Pajarito Ski Hill
    Los Alamos, NM 87501
    United States of America

    Description

  • Moab bike/hike/explore Nov. 2-10, 2024

    published by bill on Sun, 2024-03-24 17:38
    Leader: 
    Bill Priedhorsky
    Telephone: 
    5054120376
    Date: 
    Sat, 2024-11-02
    Leader Email: 
    bill@priedhorsky.net
    Difficulty: 
    Moderate
    Technicality: 
    Intermediate
    Are dogs allowed?: 
    Not allowed

    I would like to announce the sixteenth edition of our successful hike/explore/bike trips to Moab. We have been going almost every November since 2008, and every time has been a great success. The 2014 trip report can be found at http://lamountaineers.org/node/479#comment-57.

  • Water Canyon -- Ancho Canyon Loop Hike

    published by dewart on Sun, 2024-10-13 16:44
    Leader: 
    Claire Schappert
    Telephone: 
    505-660-9359
    Date: 
    Sat, 2024-11-23
    Leader Email: 
    freydier@q.com
    Difficulty: 
    Moderate
    Technicality: 
    Intermediate
    Are dogs allowed?: 
    Allowed

    Let's hike the Water Canyon/Ancho Canyon Loop, south of White Rock off of State Rte 4.

    Technicality:  Intermediate: participants should be able to scramble over and down big boulders.  

    Difficulty:  Intermediate:  participants should be prepared to hike 5-7 hours.  

  • Bluff Hiking weekend Dec. 4 - Dec. 8

    published by Anonymous on Sun, 2024-09-22 19:47
    Leader: 
    Bill Priedhorsky
    Telephone: 
    5054120376
    Date: 
    Wed, 2024-12-04
    Leader Email: 
    bill@priedhorsky.net
    Difficulty: 
    Moderate
    Technicality: 
    Intermediate
    Are dogs allowed?: 
    Not allowed

    We have many times travelled to Bluff, Utah for a taste of the canyon country. Bluff is less than six hours from Los Alamos and, situated along the San Juan River, at a low altitude best suited for trips late or early in the season. Even at the beginning of December the average daily high is around 50 F. There are numerous places to hike and explore from Bluff, including the ruins and big views of Comb Ridge, the canyons accessible from Cedar Mesa, the canyon rim just north of Bluff itself, and farther afield to places like White Canyon.

  • Big Bend Backpack (3 nights) - Now at Christmas

    published by tpietrass on Sun, 2024-09-01 08:43
    Leader: 
    Tanja Pietrass
    Telephone: 
    575-418-7969 (leave a message)
    Date: 
    Fri, 2024-12-20
    Leader Email: 
    Tpietrass@gmail.com
    Difficulty: 
    Moderate
    Technicality: 
    Intermediate
    Are dogs allowed?: 
    Not allowed

    Note the second date change: I have additional travel coming up the third week of November and can't be gone that much. So I was able to change the backcountry site to the night of Dec. 23, and the car camp site to the night of Dec. 20. The two nights in between don't require a reservation. 

  • Llama trek above the Escalante River

    published by Anonymous on Mon, 2024-09-23 12:25
    Leader: 
    Bill Priedhorsky
    Telephone: 
    5054120376
    Date: 
    Sat, 2025-04-19
    Leader Email: 
    bill@priedhorsky.net
    Difficulty: 
    Moderate
    Technicality: 
    Intermediate
    Are dogs allowed?: 
    Not allowed

    Llama packer BJ Orozco has agreed to do a spring 2025 llama trip after all, which is good news to us canyon adventurers. The trip will be a fully catered 9-night outing, leaving from a trailhead off the Hole-in-the-Rock road. Our first and last night’s camps will be at or near Gates Tanks, a perennial waterhole to the south of Fool’s Canyon. From that jumping-off point, we will hike to the far reaches of Les George Point, a location farther into the Escalante than we have camped before.

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