Let's hike up the La Luz trail, in the Sandias, and take the tram down. .
The hike is 8.5 miles with a 4200 ft elevation gain and will take about 6 hours or so. The cost for the one way down trip on the tram is $15.
Note - this is the start of standard time - so, it should be easy to get up early. Let's meet at the Sullivan Field Parking lot at 6:45 am - so that we leave Los Alamos at 7 am. We will carpool. This will put us down to the bottom of the tramway at about 8:30.
I would like to announce the eighth edition of our very successful trips to Moab. As I write this, the 2015 trip has recently concluded, and was a great success. The 2014 trip report can be found at http://lamountaineers.org/node/479#comment-57.
This trip is a bicycle ride on paved roads from Jemez Springs to the Gilman Tunnels and back. The trip is in conjunction with the Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC), and is free for Los Alamos Mountaineers Members and PEEC Members, but PEEC charges a small fee for non members.
Background: This is another in a series of hikes that I like to call local treasures. We live in a spectacular setting, but often find ourselves fleeing the area to get away from our weekday lives on the weekends. There are spectacular adventures to be had within minutes of where we live. This is one of them. Monument Canyon was a designation given to the area in 1932 to protect a 1-square-mile section of old growth Ponderosa Pine Forest. I like to think it was given the name due the number of tent rocks and hoodoos in the area.
Join Zack for a nice fall bike ride and coffee on Saturday, Oct 22. We'll start at the Motorola building at TA3 and bicycle around past Bandelier. We'll stop for coffee at the Pig and Fig in White Rock, then continue back to Los Alamos. We'll start around 8:30 to let it warm up a little. Let Zack know if you want to come at zackbaker@gmail.com
This is an announcement for an October 2016 White Rim trail Mountain bike ride, October 17 through October 22. This is an approximately 100 mile mountain bike ride, ridden in 4.5 days with four nights camping, and will be supported by three 4WD vehicles. The route is very beautiful through southern Utah canyon country. While good mountain biking skills are required, the route is not particularly technical. However, the ride from the mesa top down to the White Rim (first day) and the ride up to the mesa top (last day) requires some skill and endurance and/or hike-a-bike.
I previously announced a Canyon Country trip for these dates, and am happy to now provide details. We have taken dozens of backpacking and pack trips to the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument area over the decades. All of the time, we have been driving past a number of interesting day hikes as we head deeper into the wilderness.
get more comfortable and efficient riding uphill, downhill, lean your bicycle into turns to keep momentum going, use your brake less because speed is your friend in mountain biking: learn how to get over small rocks.
Bring your bicycle, helmet, gloves, water and snacks
Meeting Place: Los Alamos horse stable arena at 10 am (at the east end of the horse stables on North Mesa), will be out at least until noon
get more comfortable and efficient riding uphill, downhill, lean your bicycle into turns to keep momentum going, use your brake less because speed is your friend in mountain biking: learn how to get over small rocks.
Bring your bicycle, helmet, gloves, water and snacks
Meeting Place: Los Alamos horse stable arena at 10 am (at the east end of the horse stables on North Mesa), will be out at least until noon
