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  • CANCELLED see below - Llama trek above the Escalante River

    published by Anonymous on Mon, 2024-09-23 12:25
    Leader: 
    Bill Priedhorsky
    Telephone: 
    5054120376
    Date: 
    Sat, 2025-04-19
    Leader Email: 
    bill@priedhorsky.net
    Difficulty: 
    Moderate
    Technicality: 
    Intermediate
    Are dogs allowed?: 
    Not allowed

    1/26/2025 udpate: CANCELLED but this trip is available directly through Llama packer BJ Orozco.

  • Canyoneering Practice

    published by Evan_Rose on Fri, 2025-04-11 04:36
    Leader: 
    Evan Rose
    Telephone: 
    5056958945
    Date: 
    Sat, 2025-04-26
    Leader Email: 
    evanrose999@gmail.com
    Difficulty: 
    Easy
    Technicality: 
    Intermediate
    Are dogs allowed?: 
    Not allowed

    Canyoneering season is here.  Perhaps you need some skills practice.  Evan Rose and John Davey will set up some anchors at the White Rock Y (just east of the junction of NM4 and NM502).  This area offers short drops and easy walk-ups back to the top of the ropes.

  • Llama drop camp, Escalante country, May 1-9, 2025

    published by bill on Fri, 2025-01-24 08:43
    Leader: 
    Bill Priedhorsky
    Telephone: 
    5054120376
    Date: 
    Thu, 2025-05-01
    Leader Email: 
    bill@priedhorsky.net
    Difficulty: 
    Moderate
    Technicality: 
    Intermediate
    Are dogs allowed?: 
    Not allowed

    Dear Mountaineers,

    Llama trip plans for spring 2025 have been in flux, but a plan is starting to gel. Llama packer BJ and I have agreed to dates for a drop camp, although we are still thinking about destination. The previously announced April llama trek may still go, but directly with BJ, not as a Mountaineers trip. I will take part in this trip, not the llama trek.

  • Rescheduled - Lower Water Canyon

    published by freydier on Thu, 2025-04-10 17:04
    Leader: 
    Claire Schappert
    Telephone: 
    5056609359
    Date: 
    Sat, 2025-05-03
    Leader Email: 
    freydier@q.com
    Difficulty: 
    Moderate
    Technicality: 
    Beginner
    Are dogs allowed?: 
    Allowed

    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.  

    Difficulty:  Intermediate:  participants should be prepared to hike 5-7 hours.  

  • Introduction to Backpacking

    published by dewart on Mon, 2025-03-24 17:31
    Leader: 
    Jean Dewart
    Telephone: 
    5054125424
    Date: 
    Sat, 2025-05-17
    Leader Email: 
    jeandewart7@gmail.com
    Difficulty: 
    Moderate
    Technicality: 
    Beginner
    Are dogs allowed?: 
    Not allowed

    The Los Alamos Mountaineers (LAM) and the Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) are offering a 2 day introduction to backpacking course on May 17-18.  PEEC & LAM have backpacking gear to loan for this trip.

    There is mandatory pre-meeting on Monday May 12th at PEEC - to go over the required gear/food and distribute packs/sleeping bags/tents to participants.  We will also discuss the itinerary for the trip.  

  • Backpack Wolf Creek Pass to Cumbres Pass

    published by tpietrass on Wed, 2025-02-19 20:59
    Leader: 
    Tanja Pietrass
    Telephone: 
    575-418-7969
    Date: 
    Wed, 2025-07-02
    Leader Email: 
    tpietrass@gmail.com
    Difficulty: 
    Strenuous
    Technicality: 
    Intermediate
    Are dogs allowed?: 
    Not allowed

    This is a 70 mile backpack (ca. 12,000 ft elevation gain) on the CDT over the 4th of July weekend. We will either depart very early on Wed. morning, or leave Tuesday afternoon. It will take us about 5 hours to drive there and set up the car shuttle. Last year we went to Blue Lake and turned off there, but the access trail was in horrendous condition. This time, I want to take the easier route and hike all the way from 160. Expect ~15 mile days, to allow for a slightly shorter hiking day on Sunday, and early morning departures (not crazy early, around 7:30 am).

  • Aleutian Island Adventure with Backpacking

    published by tpietrass on Sun, 2025-02-23 10:16
    Leader: 
    Tanja Pietrass
    Telephone: 
    575-418-7969
    Date: 
    Sat, 2025-08-09
    Leader Email: 
    tpietrass@gmail.com
    Difficulty: 
    Moderate
    Technicality: 
    Intermediate
    Are dogs allowed?: 
    Not allowed

    This is a trip to Adak Island, in the Central Aleutians of the Aleutian Island Chain. I have chosen Adak for ease of access - you can fly there with Alaska Airlines. For reference, I paid ca. $1,500 for my roundtrip ticket from ABQ (August 9-20, 2025).

  • Wind Rivers Backpack

    published by tpietrass on Sun, 2025-02-23 09:37
    Leader: 
    Tanja Pietrass
    Telephone: 
    575-418-7969
    Date: 
    Sat, 2025-09-06
    Leader Email: 
    tpietrass@gmail.com
    Difficulty: 
    Strenuous
    Technicality: 
    Intermediate
    Are dogs allowed?: 
    Not allowed

    This will be a 7-day backpacking trip in the Wind River Range, WY. The drive to the trailhead is ca. 12 hours (more including stops for gas and food), so will add 2 days to the total trip length. I am planning a 50-mile loop that is largely off-trail. We will revisit one of my favorite areas (the Cooks Lakes) and hit on a few spots that I missed last time (such as the Alpine Lakes). Mileage per day is planned to be moderate so there is time to enjoy the scenery, and to account for the fact that moving off-trail is significantly slower.

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

    published by Anonymous on Sat, 2025-03-08 15:06
    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.

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