Los Alamos Mountaineers
Monthly Program:
Antarctica: The Best Journey in the World
The January Mountaineers meeting will feature a talk by France Anne Córdova entitled “The Best Journey in the World”, starting at 7:00 PM on Tuesday, January 26.
Former LANL astrophysicist France Córdova will recount highlights from four trips to Antarctica and the South Pole. She traveled there between 1996 and 2020 on behalf of the U.S. Government to assess scientific programs and research facilities and infrastructure on the continent.
In this talk, France will show us what it’s like to live (and find adventure) in Antarctica, and describe the nature of the science conducted in various locations on the continent. She will show photographs and videos of the “crystal desert,” remote research sites and facilities, the huts of the early 20th century Antarctica explorers and, of course, the noisy Penguin rookeries.
France, a rock-climbing instructor for the Los Alamos Mountaineers in the 1980s, was the first woman to be president of the Los Alamos Mountaineers Club. She met and married fellow rock climber Chris Foster in 1985. She is former director of the National Science Foundation, former president of Purdue University, and former NASA Chief Scientist. A Nunatak in Antartica is named for her.
Mountaineer's 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. Registration for the event is at https://peecnature.org/events/details/?id=36598.
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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
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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