The Sabinoso Wilderness was establishedin 2009 but was surrounded by private land and was inaccessible for many years. Recently some adjacent land was purchased to allow access. It's east of Las Vegas, NM.
I plan a long day trip out there. I would take my van and camp but I don't know what the road is like, so I'll take my Jeep. I'll plan to leave early that morning, hike around most of the day and return late.
I don't have any route planned right now, but I'll make progress on that during the winter break. I'm not familiar with the area so we will be exploring.
From Santa Fe Ski Basin, we will snowshoe via Raven's Ridge to Deception Peak. Round trip 6 miles, ~2500 feet elevation gain. This is a strenuous climb with potentially very cold and windy condition on the top.
published by mraltherr1@gmail.com on Fri, 2019-10-18 22:20
Leader:
Michael Altherr
Telephone:
505 231-3561
Date:
Sat, 2019-12-07
Leader Email:
mraltherr1@gmail.com
Difficulty:
Moderate
Technicality:
Intermediate
Are dogs allowed?:
Allowed
Saturday Dec. 7
Los Alamos participants leaving from the LANB Parking Lot at 07:30. White Rock Participants departing the Y parking area at 07:45. Santa Fe participants meeting at the Northern New Mexico Campus parking area in Espanola at 08:00.
There are 23" of snow at the Pass Wednesday morning - with about 2' forecast in the next 2 days. The weather should clearing Sat afternoon - so, I think the roads will be ok Sunday morning. And Sunday will be a partly sunny day. We will avoid skiing in any avalanche terrain, and the skiing will primarily be kick/gliding. Backcountry touring skis needed.
Let's Opt Outside, and take a hike on Friday November 29th (Black Friday).
Let's hike the Ancho Canyon to Blue Dot trail hike along the Rio Grande. We will carpool to the Blue Dot trailhead at the Overlook Park in White Rock, drop cars, and then drive to the Ancho Springs (also called Powerline Point) trailhead, which is about 4 miles south of White Rock on State Route 4.
Let's take a little hike on Thanksgiving morning. I plan for the hike to be about 1 1/2 hours long.
Some weather is moving in, so we'll need to consider that in choosing where to hike. If there's no snow on the ground I'd like to do the Otowi Mesa trail. If there is snow we could do the trail around the golf course.
We'll meet at 8:30 either at the roundabout or at the end of Los Pueblos Street.
PEEC is offering their anual Wilderness First Aid Certification Course on November 23-24.
Jeff DeBellis with SOLO will be teaching this course. He taught it last year and we heard great things about it.
PEEC is offering a discounted fee for those joint LAM/PEEC outing leaders. Click the link below to register for this very important class. You may be the person that saves someone's life out on the trail!
