You are here

Past Trips

Recent past trips follow. For really old trips, go here

Moab bike/hike/explore Nov. 1-9, 2025

Leader: 
Bill Priedhorsky
Telephone: 
5054120376
Date: 
Sat, 2025-11-01
Leader Email: 
bill@priedhorsky.net
Difficulty: 
Moderate
Technicality: 
Intermediate
Are dogs allowed?: 
Not allowed

I would like to announce the seventeenth edition of our successful hike/explore/bike trips to Moab. We have been going almost every November since 2008, and every time has been a great success. The 2014 trip report can be found at http://lamountaineers.org/node/479#comment-57. Let me (Bill Priedhorsky) know if you would like to join the trip.

Ski Trail preparations - Canada Bonita trail at Pajarito Mountain

Leader: 
Ann Satsangi
Telephone: 
240-672-7110
Date: 
Sat, 2025-11-01
Leader Email: 
annsats74@gmail.com
Difficulty: 
Easy
Technicality: 
Beginner
Are dogs allowed?: 
Not allowed

Our local winter Nordic ski trails take a lot of maintenance which is typically done by the South West Nordic Ski Club (SWNSC).

Tapia Canyon

Leader: 
Cecile Hemez
Telephone: 
cecilehemez@gmail.com
Date: 
Sun, 2025-10-26
Leader Email: 
cecilehemez@gmail.com
Difficulty: 
Moderate
Technicality: 
Intermediate
Are dogs allowed?: 
Not allowed

Petroglyphs, ruins, natural arches and a slot canyon. 8-miles, out-and-back, along an arroyo.

This is a remote hike in the Chamisa Wilderness Study Area, southwest of Cabezon Peak. The drive from Los Alamos to the trailhead takes approximately 2 hours and 45 minutes. The last hour is on a well maintained, mostly flat dirt road.

Maximum participants: 8

Contact Cecile if you would like to join.

Potrillo Cliffs climbing

Leader: 
Gwendolyn Gallagher, Toni Taylor
Telephone: 
5054129084
Date: 
Sat, 2025-10-25
Leader Email: 
Kegallag@cybermesa.com
Difficulty: 
Moderate
Technicality: 
Intermediate
Are dogs allowed?: 
Allowed

The weather forecast looks great for this weekend, so let's get out for another climbing outing!  Potrillo Cliffs offers a range of technical climbs, from 5.6 to 5.12. Top rope or trad. Please bring your own gear: rope, anchor-building equipment, harness, shoes, helmet, belay device, etc. 

https://www.lamountaineers.org/pdf/Potrillo_Cliffs.pdf

Meet at the trailhead (428 Estante Way) at 9 AM. Bring water, snacks, sunscreen. Hope to see you there!

Fall hike along Rio Cebolla

Leader: 
Sylvie Adam
Telephone: 
Register at PEEC website
Date: 
Sun, 2025-10-19
Leader Email: 
sylvieadam01@gmail.com
Difficulty: 
Moderate
Technicality: 
Beginner
Are dogs allowed?: 
Not allowed

Are you ready for a nice, long day hike in beautiful meadows through Oat and Hay Canyons in the Jemez Mountains?

Join Sylvie Adam with PEEC and the Los Alamos Mountaineers for this fall hike along Rio Cebolla. Participants will meet at Los Alamos Nature Center at 8 AM and arrange a carpool. The hike is out-and-back, approximately 10.5 miles round trip. The group will begin at the Seven Springs Campground, just past the Seven Springs Hatchery, about 75 minutes drive from Los Alamos.

Bring sunscreen, water, lunch, and rain gear. 

Gallow's Edge sport climbing and toproping

Leader: 
Toni Taylor & Gwendolyn Gallagher
Telephone: 
505-412-9084
Date: 
Sun, 2025-10-19
Leader Email: 
kegallag@cybermesa.com
Difficulty: 
Moderate
Technicality: 
Intermediate
Are dogs allowed?: 
Not allowed

Please join Toni, Gwendolyn and other local climbers for a fun and safe day of outdoor climbing at one of White Rock's local crags. We especially encourage new LAM climbing school graduates to come out and refresh/relearn your newly acquired skills. Please bring your own gear, but contact me if you don't own a rope, anchor-building gear, and/or quick-draws (or trad gear). And, if you don't prefer to lead a lead a route, please don't feel intimidated - there will be climbers there who can/will lead and set up routes as topropes for you to climb. 

Campfire Potluck & Stories at Camp May

Leader: 
Evan Rose
Telephone: 
5056958945
Date: 
Fri, 2025-10-10
Leader Email: 
evanrose999@gmail.com
Difficulty: 
Easy
Technicality: 
Beginner
Are dogs allowed?: 
Not allowed

Let's get together on Friday October 10, 2025 at Camp May pavilion.  There is a fireplace and a covered area with picnic tables.  We will attempt to recreate our gathering of July 23,2024 with a potluck dinner, campfire and stories.  Note that Ellen Mills's final Ski Hill Potluck Dinner Hike is on October 3.  This outing can be considered an add-on to that series of hikes and potluck dinners.

Late Season Weekend Backpack in the CO Sangre de Cristos

Leader: 
Tanja Pietrass
Telephone: 
5754187969
Date: 
Fri, 2025-10-10
Leader Email: 
tpietrass@gmail.com
Difficulty: 
Strenuous
Technicality: 
Advanced
Are dogs allowed?: 
Not allowed

This will be a 2-night backpack to the Sangre de Cristos in Colorado, doing a loop on the Venable and Comanche trails via Phantom Terrace. The terrace is known for its exposure and the loop for its views. The elevation gain is quite significant, ca. 3,000 ft the first day over 4.5 miles, another 1,000 ft the second day to the ridge, plus two (if time permits) summmits to Venable and Comanche peaks, both of them over 13,000 ft (that's another 1,100 ft or so in combined elevation gain).

Hanksville-based Hiking October 5-12, 2025

Leader: 
Bill Priedhorsky
Telephone: 
(505) 412-0376
Date: 
Sun, 2025-10-05
Leader Email: 
bill@priedhorsky.net
Difficulty: 
Moderate
Technicality: 
Intermediate
Are dogs allowed?: 
Not allowed

We have returned from our last llama trip with packer BJ Orozco. Since there will not be a llama trip this fall, I have arranged to rent a very nice house in Hanksville, Utah (https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/48361359), which will our base for a week of day hiking in a part of Utah that has escaped my attention for these many years. We have the house from Sunday October 5 to Sunday October 12, giving us 6 days for hiking.

Ski Hill Potluck Hike - Last of the Season

Leader: 
Ellen Mills
Telephone: 
5056602345
Date: 
Fri, 2025-10-03
Leader Email: 
efmillsnm@gmail.com
Difficulty: 
Moderate
Technicality: 
Beginner
Are dogs allowed?: 
Allowed

This will be the final hike of the 2025 summer season ski hill hikes. I hope to start up again in May 2026, weather conditions allowing. The dedication of our new picnic table will be held early in the hiking season of 2026.

This coming Friday we will meet at the ski hill parking lot and begin hiking up the service road at 5:00 PM. Please bring a dish to share, your own plate, utensils, and beverage. It is much cooler at the top. Raingear and warmer clothes are highly recommended. 

Pages

Theme by Danetsoft and Danang Probo Sayekti inspired by Maksimer