The May 24 Mountaineers meeting will be our first in-person meeting since early 2020 (while also including a virtual option). This milestone will feature a presentation on the “Seven Summits”, the highest mountains on every continent, by former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson. Gary will share the story of his adventures, challenges on each mountain, and the logistics behind the summit hikes.

The March 22, 2022 Mountaineers meeting will feature a talk by Julien Ross, New Mexico Forecaster, OpenSnow.com. Join us for a fun and entertaining program full of snow and winter weather forecasting science! Julien will provide a live forecast of any upcoming storms, walk through the techniques we can use to forecast snow and find the best powder in New Mexico, and how certain weather patterns and wind directions bring more (or less) snow to the Jemez, Sangre de Cristos, and other New Mexico winter playgrounds.

Bill Priedhorsky is the Mountaineers’ Canyon Country veteran, having spent 43 years exploring slickrock and canyons in 124 multi-day trips. Something special about this part of the world keeps him, and so many other Mountaineers, coming back again and again. It is a country of “wow”, where beautiful and amazing sights are waiting just around the next year. The landscape is one where the bones of the Earth are open to the sky, with its bare slickrock surfaces extending for miles. The world is turned on end in the canyon country, one cleft following another.

Speaker Ed MacKerrow’s presentation will focus on the relationships between salmon and the wildlife species that depend on their return to Alaska each year.

A scientist who researches complex adaptive social systems, MacKerrow is also a professional nature photographer and a wilderness explorer. His award-winning images have been published in magazines and journals. He serves on the boards of scientific societies and the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge.