Los Alamos Mountaineers
Monthly Program:
Potpourri
Dear Mountaineers,
We would like to invite all Mountaineers to our annual Potpourri at Fuller Lodge. Doors open at 6:00 PM on Wednesday, December 10, 2025. Potpourri is a stew that consists of one part potluck and six parts ten-minute talks, simmered slowly in conversation and camaraderie. This is by far the most popular Mountaineers meeting of the year. Make your own early New Year's resolution to attend! The potpourri will feature a Zoom connection this year, so that those at home or at a remote site can view the ten-minute talks. We will email the Zoom link in advance of the meeting.
This is a Members Only event and membership will be checked at the door. This is an excellent opportunity to renew or initiate your annual membership if you have not already done so. You can do this in person at the Lodge with cash or check, or to avoid the line at the door, ahead of time with PayPal or credit card at http://lamountaineers.org/drupal7/Member_Benefits.html
You can also print out and sign the waiver and deliver it to us. If you have signed a club waiver in a previous year, you need not sign a new one.
Membership for 2026 is still a bargain at $15 for individuals or $20 for families. Pick up a LAM sticker at the check-in table.
Because this is a potluck, please bring a dish to share. The Club will provide chicken and vegetarian enchiladas, non-alcoholic drinks, and a large chocolate cake. You provide the salads, vegetables, breads, additional desserts (but there will be a lot of cake), and main course alternatives. But you may not bring alcohol, per Fuller Lodge’s rules.
Dinner will begin at 6:30. Please bring a place setting to reduce waste - cup, plates, utensils. A tablecloth for your table would be festive. Bring your kit to Fuller Lodge. There will be soapy water for clean-up.
To benefit the homeless, we will be collecting outdoor gear: tents, sleeping bags, backpacks, winter hats and gloves, and warm jackets for men and women. We will not accept any gear or clothing items other than those. Please bring only clean and intact items. Contain sleeping bags in a stuff bag or similar bag, or with straps. As well, please put clothing (jackets, hats and gloves) in plastic bags such as trash bags.
Bring your appetite, stories to share with your table mates and your enthusiasm for the six 10-minute talks, following directly after the potluck dinner. The lineup includes:
Two Hearts, One Trail: Celebrating Our 40th Trekking in Patagonia - France Cordova and Chris Foster
Best Earth on Show: Hiking to The Wave, Vermillion Cliffs National Monument - Jean Dewart
How to Do a Birding Big Day: 167 Species, 22 Checklists, 350 Miles - Robin Gurule
Waltzing Down the Green - Tim Rennick, Tanja Pietras, Rick Rubio
Hiking the East Coast Trail, Newfoundland, Canada - Gabriela Lopez Escobedo
Just Add Water: Exploring Northern New Mexico's Creeks, Lakes and Trails - Carol Stewart & Luke Washburn
Climbing School Update
Registration is Open for Los Alamos Mountaineers Climbing School
The Los Alamos Mountaineers are thrilled to announce that they will be offering a climbing school following last year’s successful revival of the school, in conjunction with Mountain Skills Rock Climbing Adventures of Taos. Details can be found on their climbing school page, here .
Mountain Skills, supported by Mountaineers volunteers, will teach rock climbing with a safety first attitude, including movement on rock, belaying, rappelling, cleaning protective gear, and removing anchors, with extensive on-rock practice. The course objective is such that successful students should develop the skills needed to participate in top roping, follow a leader in a multi-pitch trad climb, and be able to climb or descend moderate technical obstacles in unplanned backcountry situations using improvised gear (e.g. rope and carabiners). No previous rock climbing experience is required.
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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.
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