Los Alamos Mountaineers
Monthly Program:
La Paliza Grande - A 300-mile Bikepacking Route for Northern New Mexico
The February Mountaineers meeting will feature a talk by Dylan Boyle entitled “La Paliza Grande - A 300-mile Bikepacking Route for Northern New Mexico”, on Tuesday evening, February 23.
Dylan Boyle, a bikepacker and resident of Los Alamos, NM, set out in the fall of 2020 to establish a new and adventurous cycling route for northern New Mexico. Bikepacking shares several aspects with backpacking in that it involves carrying similar multi-day self-supporting equipment such as a tent, sleeping bag, and food/water supply in the backcountry. Bikepacking routes typically traverse dirt roads and jeep tracks through Bureau of Public Lands (BLM) and National Forest (NF) lands. Northern New Mexico currently hosts a number of documented routes, notably the Great Divide Mountain Biking Route (also known as the Tour Divide when raced annually), the Chama Charmer, the Valles Caldera Supervolcano Explorer, and the Caja del Rio overnighter. In the making of La Paliza Grande (“the big beating”), the goal was to create a new and unique bikepacking route for Northern New Mexico that would extend bikepacking further into the remote corners and lesser known portions of the state’s vast and rugged public lands.
Dylan has previously completed several long distance bikepacking routes, including the Oregon Outback, the Great Divide Mountain Biking Route, the Baja Divide, and multiple local trips throughout the Santa Fe National Forest. This presentation will go over the research involved in planning this new route, how camping equipment can be packed on a mountain bike, and a ton of pictures of beautiful Northern New Mexico in peak fall colors!
Mountaineers’ meetings are held on the fourth Tuesday of every month. When held in person, they take place in the planetarium of the Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC), 2600 Canyon Rd, Los Alamos, NM 87544. Recent meetings have been held electronically starting at 7:00 PM. Registration details for this event can be found at https://peecnature.org/events/details/?id=36628.
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Monthly Public Meeting and Presentation:
Normally held in the planetarium of the Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC)
on the fourth Tuesday of each month
Social at 6:45. Reports of recent and upcoming trips at 7:05pm. Program to follow.
Past presentations, and occasionally future, can be viewed here.
Visitors are always welcome! Free refreshments!
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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.
GMRS / FRS Radio Usage on Club Trips: The Los Alamos Mountaineers encourage you to carry portable "family" radios as a safety measure on appropriate LAM trips, and urge participants to agree on a contact channel at the beginning of the trip. As a default, if no channel has been selected, LAM suggests channel 3.14. These three first digits of "pi" might be easily remembered in this scientific community.
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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