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Because of too much ice in Water Canyon - this hike is being changed to a Blue Dot/Red Dot trail hike - with visits to petroglyphs near the trail. This is between a 4 and 6 mile loop, depending upon how it is organized. Claire Schappert is still leading - contact her if you are interested in coming.
Let's hike the Water Canyon/Ancho Canyon Loop, south of White Rock off of State Rte 4.
Technicality: Intermediate: participants should be able to scramble over and down big boulders.
This will be a day after Thanksgiving hike in the Ghost Ranch area, exploring the mesas and slick rock in our little northern New Mexico corner of the Colorado Plateau. We'll come up with the detailed plan when the time comes closer, but the hike will involve climbing up from the headquarters area, or the highway rest stop, up onto the mesa tops and slick rock. There will be scrambling on low-angle rock, but not any vertical technical work. We'll be gone the whole day, and may stop for dinner in Abiquiu on the way back home. Let me know if you would like to join in.
We have many times travelled to Bluff, Utah for a taste of the canyon country. Bluff is less than six hours from Los Alamos and, situated along the San Juan River, at a low altitude best suited for trips late or early in the season. Even at the beginning of December the average daily high is around 50 F. There are numerous places to hike and explore from Bluff, including the ruins and big views of Comb Ridge, the canyons accessible from Cedar Mesa, the canyon rim just north of Bluff itself, and farther afield to places like White Canyon.
This is intended as a social gathering of the Club's local backcountry ski community to meet potential partners to plan adventures and outings. So, come join Ann, Michael and other like minded individuals at the Camp May pavilion on Sunday December 8th at 11:30am. We'll have a grill, so BYOB (Bring your own Brats), and bring a potluck dish to share.
This year we will start out with a planning session for the field exercise at Mesa Public Library on Thursday Dec. 12th at 17:30. The field session (snow permitting) will occur the following weekend on Sunday the 15th. In the field we will exercise our transceiver, probing and strategic shoveling skills.
Note the second date change: I have additional travel coming up the third week of November and can't be gone that much. So I was able to change the backcountry site to the night of Dec. 23, and the car camp site to the night of Dec. 20. The two nights in between don't require a reservation.
Llama packer BJ Orozco has agreed to do a spring 2025 llama trip after all, which is good news to us canyon adventurers. The trip will be a fully catered 9-night outing, leaving from a trailhead off the Hole-in-the-Rock road. Our first and last night’s camps will be at or near Gates Tanks, a perennial waterhole to the south of Fool’s Canyon. From that jumping-off point, we will hike to the far reaches of Les George Point, a location farther into the Escalante than we have camped before.