Past Trips

This is a scouting hike for the LAM August 16-18 weekend at the Brazos  If you can't make the weekend trip, come on the exploration on the 11th. As previously noted this is an exploratory hike. Consequently, participants will need to be adequately prepared and adaptable to potential changes in path and terrain.

Having postponed the Jicarita Peak hike on Saturday because of lightning risk, I'd like to propose a 10-mile out and back hike up Cebolla Canyon in the Jemez (500 ft elevation gain/loss), following the small stream. This is classic Jemez meadow scenery. The hike starts at the end of the road upstream from Seven Springs fish hatchery, and goes up the meadowed valley bottom. We might well get wet, but will not face the lightning risk that we would on a ridge top. We'll leave Los Alamos at 8 AM and return by dinner time, and will organize carpooling once we know who is going.

Surely the snow will be melted by mid July, so let's go on a 4 day backpack in the South San Juan Wilderness!

Leave Los Alamos, Thursday morning July 18th, and drive 4 hours to the Three Forks trailhead above Platoro, Colorado.  Hike to Blue Lake on Thursday afternoon, 5 miles 1200 ft elevation gain.  Hike to Glacier Lake on Friday, 4 miles 1000 ft elevation gain (this lake is above treeline).  Saturday - day hike up Conejos Peak (13,172 ft), 6 miles round trip 1000 ft elevation gain.   Sunday, hike 9 miles 2000 ft down back to cars, drive home, arriving ~7pm.  

The Second 10th Annual Rubber Ducky Float Trip

Join Zack for a Rio Grande floating adventure. We will start at 9am on Saturday July 13 at the Red Dot trailhead, hike down to the river, continue up the river trail to the bottom of the Blue Dot. There, we will stop and enjoy lunch and inflate our floating toys/mattresses/water wings. We will then float back down to the Red Dot, wash off in the clean springs, and hike back to our cars.