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Next month's program is to be announced! Stay tuned for more details.

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.

  • Blue Dot/Red Dot 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

    Because of too much ice in Water Canyon - this hike is being changed to a Blue Dot/Red Dot trail hike - with visits to petroglyphs near the trail.  This is between a 4 and 6 mile loop, depending upon how it is organized.  Claire Schappert is still leading - contact her if you are interested in coming.  

     

    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.  

  • Day hike in the Abiquiu / Ghost Ranch area

    published by Anonymous on Thu, 2024-10-31 08:33
    Leader: 
    Bill Priedhorsky
    Telephone: 
    5054120376
    Date: 
    Fri, 2024-11-29
    Leader Email: 
    bill@priedhorsky.net
    Difficulty: 
    Moderate
    Technicality: 
    Intermediate
    Are dogs allowed?: 
    Not allowed

    This will be a day after Thanksgiving hike in the Ghost Ranch area, exploring the mesas and slick rock in our little northern New Mexico corner of the Colorado Plateau. We'll come up with the detailed plan when the time comes closer, but the hike will involve climbing up from the headquarters area, or the highway rest stop, up onto the mesa tops and slick rock. There will be scrambling on low-angle rock, but not any vertical technical work. We'll be gone the whole day, and may stop for dinner in Abiquiu on the way back home. Let me know if you would like to join in.

  • 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.

  • Backcountry Skier Meetup

    published by AnnSatsangi on Fri, 2024-10-25 08:22
    Leader: 
    Ann Satsangi or Michael Altherr
    Telephone: 
    240-672-7110
    Date: 
    Sun, 2024-12-08
    Leader Email: 
    Annsats74@gmail.com
    Difficulty: 
    Easy
    Technicality: 
    Beginner
    Are dogs allowed?: 
    Not allowed

    This is intended as a social gathering of the Club's local backcountry ski community to meet potential partners to plan adventures and outings. So, come join Ann, Michael and other like minded individuals at the Camp May pavilion on Sunday December 8th at 11:30am. We'll have a grill, so BYOB (Bring your own Brats), and bring a potluck dish to share.  

  • 2024 Avalanche Refresher

    published by mraltherr1 on Sat, 2024-11-02 15:42
    Leader: 
    Michael Altherr
    Telephone: 
    5054120061
    Date: 
    Sun, 2024-12-15
    Leader Email: 
    mraltherr1@gmail.com
    Difficulty: 
    Moderate
    Technicality: 
    Intermediate
    Are dogs allowed?: 
    Not allowed

    This year we will start out with a planning session for the field exercise at Mesa Public Library on Thursday Dec. 12th at 17:30. The field session (snow permitting) will occur the following weekend on Sunday the 15th. In the field we will exercise our transceiver, probing and strategic shoveling skills. 

  • 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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