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Future program presenters are requested to send the Programs Chair (officer list here) brief write-ups of your intended presentations and one or two representative photos. This information will be posted on the webpage and included in the local newspapers, handouts, and posters. Note that future presentations are listed as well, if we have the details. Presentations predating this website can be found here

Tour Divide 2018, My Story

Date: 
Tue, 2018-11-27

This presentation will discuss Jan Bear's experience participating in the 2018 Tour Divide, a 2725 mile mountain bike race from Banff, Canada to Antelope Wells, NM. The race is self supported, with navigation via GPS thru Alberta and British Columbia in Canada and Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Colorado and New Mexico in the US. The event has been held annually for the last 20 years but the route has been modified over the years. The course includes approximately 180,000ft of climbing as well as temperatures ranging from below freezing to over 100 degrees.

Exploring East Greenland — 1971

Date: 
Tue, 2018-10-23

Three LAM’ers (Don Liska, Larry Campbell, and Eiichi Fukushima) joined three others to attempt a possible ascent of Ejnar Mikkelsen Fjeld, the second highest summit north of the Arctic Circle as well as Gunnbjornsfeld, the highest, climbed earlier.

Trekking in Patagonia

Date: 
Tue, 2018-09-25

Mountains, Glaciers, Birds and Orchids!

Robin Gurule will talk about her 10-day trekking expedition in Torres del Paine in Patagonia, Chile. She will discuss the logistics as well the the adventure.

 

Places LAM members still visit, as they were 50+/- years ago. Faded slides and memories from Ray and Joy Green

Date: 
Tue, 2018-08-28

This talk will present slides from several of many trips that Ray and Joy Green made with various groups to the Utah canyon country in the late 1960’s. The Los Alamos Mountaineers continue to frequent these areas (and capture far more impressive images of it with superior equipment), so the emphasis will be on what has changed in the last half century. In particular, we intend to note differences in natural environments (invasive species), roadways and access, land administration and rules of use, and recreational usage.

New Zealand Adventure

Date: 
Tue, 2018-07-24

Martin Staley will describe his 12/2017-1/2018 adventure trip to New Zealand, covering both islands. Highlights included hiking trips, a backpack, sea kayaking, paragliding, skydiving, sailing, canyoning, and exploring beaches, volcanoes, rain forests, hot springs, mountains, fjords, and glaciers.

"Snow and Ice: Adventures in Scientific Study of our Cold, Cold World..."

Date: 
Tue, 2018-06-26

Dan Berisford, PhD  Technologist, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab will talk about Mountain snowpack:  lifeblood of the American west and water supply for 1 Billion people globally.  For the skier and mountaineer, the snowpack presents a delicate balance of allure and danger.  For the water resource manager, it presents an ill-constrained water storage mechanism.  For the scientist, it presents an incredibly complex challenge to measure, predict, and attempt to understand.  In this talk, we will discuss how snowpack properties are measured with traditional and state-of-the-art technology, as well as

Edgewood Cavern - An Unusual Underground Discovery by John T. M. Lyles

Date: 
Tue, 2018-05-22

In 1970, a new geologic discovery was made in Edgewood, at the southern edge of Santa Fe county near I-40. A water-well driller hit a void and dropped his drill bit. Air pressure from the hole indicated that the void was extensive, likely a large cave. A few years later, the property owner worked with the driller to sink a human-diameter shaft into the ground, using a custom bit. This 128 foot deep shaft was cased and cave explorers were called in, to dig into the passages beyond a blowing crack at the bottom of the shaft.

Exploring Iceland on Skis

Date: 
Tue, 2018-04-24

Andy Thien will talk about his 2 week trip skiing various locations along the Troll Peninsula enjoying countless waterfalls and jagged peaks along Iceland's extremely scenic coast.

From Tocllaraju to Orizaba: A Year in the Mountains

Date: 
Tue, 2018-03-27

From Tocllaraju to Orizaba: A Year in the Mountains

Join the Mountaineers at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 27, at the Los Alamos Nature Center for a presentation by Ron Morgan about his climbing adventures.

Oh, Canada: Dayhiking the Great White North

Date: 
Tue, 2018-02-27

 

Most peaks in the lower 48 can be done in a day. But what about Canada? Access turns out to be much more difficult in our sparsely-populated neighbor to the north, with vast pathless regions reachable only by helicopter. However, many classic peaks in the Selkirks and Rockies can still be done in a day, from the convenient peaks around Rogers Pass and Lake Louise, to Mount Robson, the “great white fright.” Even the more accessible Canadian peaks are wilder and more dramatic than just about anything found in the lower 48, with sheer faces, deep valleys, and big glaciers.

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