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Monthly Program:

Adventures in Indonesia

published by bill on Fri, 2024-07-12 17:16
Date: 
Tue, 2024-08-27

In June 2023, James Hunter and Beth Cortright joined two of their friends on a tour around a handful of islands in Indonesia. They hiked to see Komodo Dragons in the wild, visited a few caves and waterfalls, and climbed Mount Rinjani, the second tallest volcano in Indonesia.

James Hunter is a life-long resident of Los Alamos, active in rock climbing, caving, hiking, and many other outdoor activities. Beth Cortright has lived in Los Alamos for 12 years. She enjoys hiking, climbing, caving, and backpacking.

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 streamed 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 details will be posted once they are available.

Summit photo on Mount Rinjani, one of the highest volcanoes in Indonesia (12,224 feet)

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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.

Social at 6:45.  Reports of recent and upcoming trips at 7:05pm.   Program to follow.

Visitors are always welcome!  Free refreshments!

Past presentations, and occasionally future, can be viewed here

 

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.

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.

  • 10-Day Backpacking in the Revelation Mountains, AK

    published by tpietrass on Sat, 2024-03-09 10:26
    Leader: 
    Tanja Pietrass
    Telephone: 
    575-418-7969 (leave a message)
    Date: 
    Fri, 2024-07-26
    Leader Email: 
    Tpietrass@gmail.com
    Difficulty: 
    Strenuous
    Technicality: 
    Advanced
    Are dogs allowed?: 
    Not allowed

    1. Trip Overview

  • Rubber Ducky Float Trip

    published by admin on Sat, 2024-06-22 16:39
    Leader: 
    Zack Baker
    Telephone: 
    505-412-5961
    Date: 
    Sat, 2024-07-27
    Leader Email: 
    zackbaker@gmail.com
    Difficulty: 
    Moderate
    Technicality: 
    Beginner
    Are dogs allowed?: 
    Not allowed

    The 16th Annual Rubber Ducky Float Trip

    Join Zack for a Rio Grande floating adventure. We will start at 8am on Saturday July 27 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.  It's about 4 miles, plus the up and down elevation gain of the Red Dot trail.

  • Valle de los Indios

    published by Anonymous on Sun, 2024-07-21 19:58
    Leader: 
    Bill Priedhorsky
    Telephone: 
    5054120376
    Date: 
    Sun, 2024-07-28
    Leader Email: 
    bill@priedhorsky.net
    Difficulty: 
    Moderate
    Technicality: 
    Beginner
    Are dogs allowed?: 
    Not allowed

    Join us for a moderate hike up the Rito de los Indios in the northeastern corner of the Valles Caldera National Preserve. Per the park writeup at https://www.nps.gov/thingstodo/hike-the-rito-de-los-indios-trail.htm , “The Rito de los Indios Trail is a 7.8-mile (12.6 km) hike that climbs gently up to the northern boundary of the preserve.

  • Beginner Backpack

    published by dewart on Wed, 2024-07-10 07:51
    Leader: 
    Jean Dewart
    Telephone: 
    5054125424
    Date: 
    Sat, 2024-08-03
    Leader Email: 
    jeandewart7@gmail.com
    Difficulty: 
    Moderate
    Technicality: 
    Beginner
    Are dogs allowed?: 
    Not allowed

    Interested in trying out backpacking?  LAM/PEEC has organized an overnight backpack trip and we have gear (tents, backpacks, sleeping bags, etc.) to loan.  There will be a pre-meeting on Monday night July 29 at 5:30 to go over gear, discuss food and clothing, and answer questions.   The backpack will be on Saturday-Sunday August 3-4, starting from the Santa Fe Ski Basin.  We will hike 4.5 miles and camp at Puerto Nambe on Saturday night.  There are possible hikes from camp on Sunday morning, returning to Los Alamos on later on Sunday afternoon.  

     

  • Colorado Peak Backpack Weekend

    published by Norbert Ensslin on Wed, 2024-06-12 17:35
    Leader: 
    Norbert Ensslin
    Telephone: 
    505-662-1408
    Date: 
    Fri, 2024-08-09
    Leader Email: 
    norbert.ensslin@gmail.com
    Difficulty: 
    Moderate
    Technicality: 
    Intermediate
    Are dogs allowed?: 
    Not allowed

    Several of us are planning a Colorado Fourteener trip for August 9-11, and we would like to invite other Club members to join us.  We are planning to drive from the highway between Saguache and Gunnison to the Stewart Creek trailhead on Friday morning, August 9, and backpack up the Stewart Creek trail to timberline that afternoon.  From that high camp, we can easily access one Fourteener (San Luis) and one high Thirteener (Stewart).  Like last year’s trip to Missouri Gulch, this will be a relaxed weekend, with an opportunity for Club members to bag one or two Centennial peaks.  Both of thes

  • Tenth Mountain Hut System Adult Hike/Bike Trip – Fowler/Hilliard Hut

    published by dewart on Wed, 2024-03-20 21:28
    Leader: 
    Kathleen Gruetzmacher
    Telephone: 
    505-204-6075
    Date: 
    Mon, 2024-08-12
    Leader Email: 
    gkathleen1048@msn.com
    Difficulty: 
    Moderate
    Technicality: 
    Intermediate
    Are dogs allowed?: 
    Not allowed

    A hike/bike trip to the Tenth Mountain Hut Division – Fowler/Hilliard is planned for August 12-15, 2024.  We have the entire hut for 12 adults.  The deposit is $163.00 per person.  Please e-mail me with your interest.

    The route to the hut is 8.3 miles on forest service roads near Leadville, CO.  More info on the hut is at:  https://huts.org/hut/fowler-hilliard-hut/

  • Maybe the last llama trip, Oct 5-13, 2024

    published by Anonymous on Wed, 2024-05-15 08:10
    Leader: 
    Bill Priedhorsky
    Telephone: 
    5054120376
    Date: 
    Sat, 2024-10-05
    Leader Email: 
    bill@priedhorsky.net
    Difficulty: 
    Moderate
    Technicality: 
    Intermediate
    Are dogs allowed?: 
    Not allowed

    Dear Mountaineers,

  • Moab bike/hike/explore Nov. 2-10, 2024

    published by bill on Sun, 2024-03-24 17:38
    Leader: 
    Bill Priedhorsky
    Telephone: 
    5054120376
    Date: 
    Sat, 2024-11-02
    Leader Email: 
    bill@priedhorsky.net
    Difficulty: 
    Moderate
    Technicality: 
    Intermediate
    Are dogs allowed?: 
    Not allowed

    I would like to announce the sixteenth 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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