Past Trips

LA Mountaineers - let's support this community event to raise funds to alleviate hunger - in Los Alamos and worldwide.  Come on - we need the exercise before Thanksgiving!

Save the date of Sunday, Nov. 19, when the annual Los Alamos CROP Hunger Walk and Turkey Trot will be held. Same bat-time, same bat-location: we will start and end in the parking lot in front of Los Alamos Middle School (on North Mesa). Participants will be entered in a drawing for turkeys and pies.

Email cshimeknm@gmail.com, or text 505-695-1174, to coordinate if you are interested in joining us.

See info about pets at the bottom of this listing.

6 am Friday: Leave Los Alamos and meet up with participants coming from Santa Fe

• We currently have room for 2 people in our car (and at the Hot Springs campsite) and other cars are welcome to join us

1-2 pm Friday: Arrive at Gila Cliff DwellingsNational Monument parking area

I would like to announce the fifteenth 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.

This trip is a bicycle ride on paved roads from Jemez Springs to the Gilman Tunnels and back. The Gilman tunnels are located in the most scenic section of the Guadalupe River Box and were originally blasted out of the rock in the 1920's for a logging railroad.  The cottonwoods along the route will hopefully be near the peak of their fall colors, making it a most beautiful ride.

This hike is adjacent to the Bosque del Apache Wildlife Refuge near Socorro, NM.  The Chupadera Wilderness National Recreation Trail traverses a variety of ecosystems, starting within the Rio Grande river ecosystem, extending through the high desert, into the grasslands of the Polvadera/Chupadera mountain range, and topping out on Chupadera Mountain.   A  very cool transit of the various ecosystems.  

Dear Mountaineers,

Join PEEC and the Los Alamos Mountaineers for an intermediate, loop trail hiking outing in the Nambe Badlands on October 7th. This trip will cover 5.3 miles and about 550 feet of elevation gain. It will be of intermediate difficulty. Participants should be able to hike 5 miles in ~2 hours and will need to bring their own water, snacks, sunscreen, and dress appropriately for the weather.  

This will be the final hike of the season.  The hike is on Tuesday evening up Pipeline Rd. Our potluck dinner will be held at Patti Walls' home, 1825 Corona in Quemazon.  Participants can drop off there dinner contributions between 5 and 5:15 PM. at Pattis' home.  We will hike up Pipeline Rd. for an about an hour, and then return to Pattis' for dinner and conversation.

If you have any questions, please call me at 505-660-2345.

Ellen Mills

This is a one night backpacking trip into the Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness Area under the Harvest full moon. The backpacking is not particularly rugged or difficult but requires that you carry all the water you will need for a 24h period. At a minimum, you should plan on carrying a gallon of water away from the trailhead.  

Dear Mountaineers,