Major LAM Activities and
Positions Held:
-
Past President, 2009
-
President, 2008
- Program
Chair, 2007
-
Equipment Manager, 2005
- Vice
President and
Climbing School Director, 2003
- Program
Chair, 1994
-
President, 1990
- Vice
President and
Climbing School Director, 1989
-
Secretary, 1988
Chris Horley moved to Los
Alamos in 1983 and joined the club two years later. He
stopped by at a climbing school session at the "Y" in 1985 and
was hooked, driving down that afternoon to Albuquerque to buy
some climbing shoes. Living in the Bay Area prior to
moving here, he had always enjoyed backpack trips to the Sierras
and had climbed several of the California 14ers, including
soloing the Whitney glacier on Shasta (in retrospect, a bad
idea). With new friends in the mountaineers and new skills, he
has done many trad and alpine routes. He has climbed all
over the western US and has done a number of the Roper and Steck
50 classics.
Rio
Grande Pyramid summit, solo
His biggest passion is alpine
climbing and he has summited Denali, Aconcagua, and the 6th
highest 8000 meter peak, Cho Oyu. He has also done the Mexican
volcanoes and climbed in Peru and Bolivia. He is a dozen
peaks away from climbing the top 100 in Colorado and has climbed
many of the classic couloir routes and has skied off many of the
summits. He enjoys the winter seasons skiing, snowboarding
and tele skiing. He has been to all of the 10th
Mountain Huts and looks forward to a trip or two a year.
He was a senior ski patroller at Pajarito for 11 years and
served as Patrol Director and taught Outdoor Winter Emergency
Care and Winter Survival. Chris is also an avid mountain
biker and has enjoyed many single track adventures. He has
also led a few road bike tours and is looking forward to doing
more of these. Whether it is rock climbing, mountain
biking, skiing, ice climbing, kayaking or alpine peak bagging,
the most enjoyment comes from doing it with good friends, and
that will always remain a big part of his life. All trips
are about the journey and sharing it.
Summit
of Denali
Memorable Climbs:
Cho Oyu (26,901), Denali west
buttress (20,320), Aconcagua (22,841), North Ridge of the Grand,
Illampu, Kilimanjaro (19340),
Liberty Ridge, Mount Stewart north
ridge, Clyde Minaret, SE face.
The rest of the story:
Chris is a mechanical engineer
and started his career designing and building nuclear energy
plants for 10 years before moving to Los Alamos. Most of
his 24 years at Los Alamos National Laboratory have been
involved in designing and building of safeguards instruments to
detect and monitor nuclear materials. He is presently
involved in the design of space instruments.
May 11,
2005, noon run
