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Monthly Program:

Flyfishing for recreation, conservation, and exploration

published by bill on Sat, 2022-12-10 14:55
Date: 
Tue, 2023-03-28

The March 28 Mountaineers meeting will be in-person, with a hybrid adjunct. Rob McCormack will speak about “Flyfishing for recreation, conservation, and exploration.”

Rob looks forward to sharing the three phases of fly fishing with Mountaineers: 1.) fly fishing basics and recreation 2.) ecology and conservation 3.) exploration and travel. Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado have some of the most unique, beautiful, and wild places in the world and Rob is excited to share the waters with you.

Rob is a fly-fishing guide with Artful Angler Santa Fe / Taos. Rob grew up fishing the saltwater in New Jersey and New York. By high school he was an obsessive fly fisherman chasing anything with fins everywhere he could. He went onto Cornell University in the Finger Lakes region of New York to study fisheries, row Division One crew, and fish for landlocked Atlantic Salmon. During college Rob worked as an intern lobbyist with Trout Unlimited in Washington D.C. and for the Bureau of Land Management counting Salmon in the interior of Alaska. Alaska and Trout Unlimited shaped Rob’s angling career. Rob went on to guide in the Bristol Bay region of Alaska, Ireland, the saltwater in New Jersey, and Kamchatka. Inspired by the wilderness of Alaska he has travelled the world looking for other wild, remote, and unique fisheries including Mexico, Florida, Cuba, Belize, most of the Rocky Mountain West, Southeast Asia, Southern Africa, and far atolls of the Atlantic Ocean. Fortunate to travel with a flyrod, Rob has seen the importance of conservation in protecting and improving wild fisheries, and believes that every great angler is a conservationist and loves to share his knowledge and enthusiasm for the natural world with others. In addition to guiding, Rob is a small business owner, avid gardener, whitewater rafter, backpacker, and skier.

We welcome all to this Mountaineers’ meeting, on the regular fourth Tuesday of the month. The social hour, with cookies, begins at 6:45 PM and the program at 7:00 PM. The presentation will be in-person at Los Alamos Nature Center; the slides will be live-streamed on Zoom. Registration is required to Zoom and recommended for in-person – we would love to see your smiling face. Registration is at https://peecnature.org/events/details/?id=45322.

 

 

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Monthly Public Meeting and Presentation:


Normally held in the planetarium of the Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC)
on the fourth Tuesday of each month. Now offering hybrid meetings with in-person and zoom options! Sign up for each talk at the Monthly Program page.

Past presentations, and occasionally future, can be viewed here

 


Get a 2021 Official Mountaineers T-Shirt

To support the Mountaineers spirit in these challenging times, we are pleased to offer our members the latest Mountaineers t-shirt, with a design based on our adventures around the world, shipped to your home anywhere in the US. The design comes in women’s and unisex versions, per the pictures below, in a wicking fabric The shirts cost $20 each. They may be picked up in Los Alamos, or shipped via USPS for $5 per shirt to any address in the US. Because of the circumstances, we cannot accept returns, so we’ve measured the shirts, and they are sized as follows:
      Circumference Height
dimensions in inches # in stock under arms midriff hips collar to waist
Women's
XS 6 28 27 1/2 32 23 1/2
S 6 31 30 34 24 1/2
M 4 32 31 35 24 1/2
L 1 35 34 38 25 1/2
XL 6 37 35 40 25 1/2
Unisex
S 5 34 35 28
M 4 38 1/2 39 28 1/2
L 5 42 42 29
XL 5 44 46 29 1/2

 

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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.

 

 

Trip Leaders: Anyone can lead a trip! 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.

  • Cabezon Peak

    published by evan_felicia on Sat, 2022-10-29 11:47
    Leader: 
    Evan Rose
    Telephone: 
    505-695-8945
    Date: 
    Sat, 2023-04-08
    Leader Email: 
    evanrose999@gmail.com
    Difficulty: 
    Moderate
    Technicality: 
    Intermediate
    Are dogs allowed?: 
    Not allowed

       This annual outing offers an opportunity to climb iconic Cabezon Peak.  The description below is the same as for 2022.

       Cabezon Peak towers 2000 feet above the Rio Puerco Valley.  This volcanic plug is the remnant of the core of a volcano - like Shiprock.  Appearing impregnable, Cabezon can nonetheless be ascended by the intrepid mountaineer who follows the hidden route that wends its way through a crack in the plug's defenses.  Said mountaineer must be able to execute a couple of low fourth class maneuvers in pursuit of the summit.

  • Canyon hiking Comb Ridge - White Canyon area April 12-16

    published by Anonymous on Sat, 2022-12-17 13:30
    Leader: 
    Bill Priedhorsky
    Telephone: 
    5054120376
    Date: 
    Wed, 2023-04-12
    Leader Email: 
    bill@priedhorsky.net
    Difficulty: 
    Moderate
    Technicality: 
    Intermediate
    Are dogs allowed?: 
    Not allowed

    To get the canyon trips rolling early for 2023, we will go again to Blanding, Utah, for 3 days of hiking on April 13, 14, and 15, Thursday-Saturday. I’ve reserved lodging in Blanding, Utah, in the same condos as last year (the upstairs ones this time). From there, we can pick our hikes from the northern end of Comb Ridge, Mule and Arch Canyons, Natural Bridges National Monument, and White Canyon. We will have plenty to choose from, and the 3 days will go quickly. We will do our usual cross-country exploring, seeking places that are seldom travelled.

  • Deer Creek Hoodoos llama trip May 6-14

    published by Anonymous on Sat, 2022-12-10 13:48
    Leader: 
    Bill Priedhorsky
    Telephone: 
    5054120376
    Date: 
    Sat, 2023-05-06
    Leader Email: 
    bill@priedhorsky.net
    Difficulty: 
    Strenuous
    Technicality: 
    Intermediate
    Are dogs allowed?: 
    Not allowed

    Once more returning to the canyon country, our spring 2023 trip will be based in the Grand Staircase/Escalante National Monument, in the slickrock hoodoo country above and east of Deer Creek. This is the same area that we explored in May 2013. We will reach our camp by hiking down from the Deer Creek trailhead, east of Boulder, Utah. We will explore the oases, slick rock, domes, and huge views of the canyon country. The outing is fairly physical, with several hours of hiking every day, with a comfortable base camp to return to every evening.

  • Hiking and Fishing in the upper Conejos valley

    published by Anonymous on Mon, 2022-09-12 07:54
    Leader: 
    Bill Priedhorsky
    Telephone: 
    5054120376
    Date: 
    Thu, 2023-07-13
    Leader Email: 
    bill@priedhorsky.net
    Difficulty: 
    Moderate
    Technicality: 
    Beginner
    Are dogs allowed?: 
    Not allowed

    This is a repeat of a successful trip held in August 2022. I would not be scheduling it so early, but found when I checked that only one opening was still available for summer 2023. The upper Conejos offers access to the South San Juan wilderness via several trails on the west side of the Conejos, as well as the several trails upstream of Platoro Reservoir, such as the 3 Forks trail. One can explore the high country and high lakes, and as well hike along the Conejos itself. Fly fishing is a possibility – trip leader Bill might be able to share the river with a would-be angler or two.

  • Gates of the Arctic National Park

    published by tpietrass on Sun, 2023-01-22 14:31
    Leader: 
    Tanja Pietrass
    Telephone: 
    5754187969
    Date: 
    Thu, 2023-08-10
    Leader Email: 
    tpietrass@gmail.com
    Difficulty: 
    Moderate
    Technicality: 
    Advanced
    Are dogs allowed?: 
    Not allowed

    Departure Date ABQ: August 10, 2023

    Return Date to ABQ: August 22, 2023

  • Middle Fork Salmon raft trip (with music) September 2023

    published by bill on Sat, 2021-07-31 17:47
    Leader: 
    Bill Priedhorsky
    Telephone: 
    505 412 0736
    Date: 
    Sat, 2023-09-02
    Leader Email: 
    bill@priedhorsky.net
    Difficulty: 
    Moderate
    Technicality: 
    Intermediate
    Are dogs allowed?: 
    Not allowed

    Recently back from a great trip down the Selway River in July 2021, we signed up for our next adventure. We’d like to return to experience the 5-night trip down the Middle Fork in a cooler and quieter season. 2022 is substantially booked, so the September 2, 2023 departure by Hughes River Expeditions offers adventure and beauty, and a musical serenade every night to boot.

  • Walking tour in Italy

    published by Anonymous on Fri, 2023-03-10 14:13
    Leader: 
    Bill Priedhorsky
    Telephone: 
    5054120376
    Date: 
    Sun, 2023-09-24
    Leader Email: 
    bill@priedhorsky.net
    Difficulty: 
    Moderate
    Technicality: 
    Beginner
    Are dogs allowed?: 
    Not allowed

    In past years, several of us have gone on walking and culinary tours in Italy with guide David Morton, who runs a tour company called Roman Roads (https://www.romanroadwalks.com/). You can see some of our friends on his web page. We are organizing a trip this fall once again, on a route that travels from the mountains to the seaside. Trip details can be found at https://www.romanroadwalks.com/newsletter31.html. There is a good walk, cultural exploration, and fine meals every day.

  • Moab bike/hike/explore Nov. 4-12, 2023

    published by Anonymous on Sun, 2023-02-12 16:13
    Leader: 
    Bill Priedhorsky
    Telephone: 
    5054120376
    Date: 
    Sat, 2023-11-04
    Leader Email: 
    bill@priedhorsky.net
    Difficulty: 
    Moderate
    Technicality: 
    Intermediate
    Are dogs allowed?: 
    Not allowed

    I would like to announce the fifteenth 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.

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