published by sylvie.adam01 on Fri, 2025-10-03 18:57
Leader:
Sylvie Adam
Telephone:
Register at PEEC website
Date:
Sun, 2025-10-19
Leader Email:
sylvieadam01@gmail.com
Difficulty:
Moderate
Technicality:
Beginner
Are dogs allowed?:
Not allowed
Are you ready for a nice, long day hike in beautiful meadows through Oat and Hay Canyons in the Jemez Mountains?
Join Sylvie Adam with PEEC and the Los Alamos Mountaineers for this fall hike along Rio Cebolla. Participants will meet at Los Alamos Nature Center at 8 AM and arrange a carpool. The hike is out-and-back, approximately 10.5 miles round trip. The group will begin at the Seven Springs Campground, just past the Seven Springs Hatchery, about 75 minutes drive from Los Alamos.
Please join Toni, Gwendolyn and other local climbers for a fun and safe day of outdoor climbing at one of White Rock's local crags. We especially encourage new LAM climbing school graduates to come out and refresh/relearn your newly acquired skills. Please bring your own gear, but contact me if you don't own a rope, anchor-building gear, and/or quick-draws (or trad gear). And, if you don't prefer to lead a lead a route, please don't feel intimidated - there will be climbers there who can/will lead and set up routes as topropes for you to climb.
Let's get together on Friday October 10, 2025 at Camp May pavilion. There is a fireplace and a covered area with picnic tables. We will attempt to recreate our gathering of July 23,2024 with a potluck dinner, campfire and stories. Note that Ellen Mills's final Ski Hill Potluck Dinner Hike is on October 3. This outing can be considered an add-on to that series of hikes and potluck dinners.
This will be a 2-night backpack to the Sangre de Cristos in Colorado, doing a loop on the Venable and Comanche trails via Phantom Terrace. The terrace is known for its exposure and the loop for its views. The elevation gain is quite significant, ca. 3,000 ft the first day over 4.5 miles, another 1,000 ft the second day to the ridge, plus two (if time permits) summmits to Venable and Comanche peaks, both of them over 13,000 ft (that's another 1,100 ft or so in combined elevation gain).
We have returned from our last llama trip with packer BJ Orozco. Since there will not be a llama trip this fall, I have arranged to rent a very nice house in Hanksville, Utah (https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/48361359), which will our base for a week of day hiking in a part of Utah that has escaped my attention for these many years. We have the house from Sunday October 5 to Sunday October 12, giving us 6 days for hiking.
This will be the final hike of the 2025 summer season ski hill hikes. I hope to start up again in May 2026, weather conditions allowing. The dedication of our new picnic table will be held early in the hiking season of 2026.
This coming Friday we will meet at the ski hill parking lot and begin hiking up the service road at 5:00 PM. Please bring a dish to share, your own plate, utensils, and beverage. It is much cooler at the top. Raingear and warmer clothes are highly recommended.
I would like to announce an exploration in the Colorado Plateau terrain along the Chama River. Reading the river guidebook on our recent Chama River raft trip, I noted a mention of slot canyons in the gypsum formations downstream of “The Dome”, a mesa visible to the left when one hikes across Skull Bridge. New Mexico canyoneer Doug Scott mentions a canyon that he calls Dome Canyon at https://dougscottart.com/hobbies/SlotCanyons/Dome.htm.
We are approaching the end of the season for the Ski Hill hike with this trip, and one more the following Friday. We will meet at the ski hill parking lot and begin hiking up the service road at 5:00 PM. Please bring a dish to share, your own plate, utensils, and beverage. It will likely be cool at the top of the mountain so warmer clothes and reingear are both highly recommended. You may want to carry a head lamp for the hike down the mountain.
To mark the last day of summer, let's hike to a mountain lake in the Pecos Wilderness, with views of the east side of the Santa Fe Baldy. The trail will take us through grassy meadows, aspen groves, and deep conifer forests.
This is an 11-mile loop hike with a 2,100 ft elevation gain. The drive from Los Alamos to the trailhead, near Cowles, takes about two hours. Expect an all-day outing.
If you would like to join, contact Cecile for start time and directions to the trailhead. We can arrange carpooling from Los Alamos and Santa fe.
published by jan.velechovsky on Wed, 2025-09-10 21:24
Leader:
Jan Velechovsky
Telephone:
505-695-9248
Date:
Sat, 2025-09-20
Leader Email:
jan.velechovsky@gmail.com
Difficulty:
Easy
Technicality:
Beginner
Are dogs allowed?:
Allowed
Join Your Fellow Mountaineers for a Trail Cleanup!
Help keep our local trails beautiful by joining us for a community trash pickup event.
When: Saturday, September 20th at 9:00 AM
Where: Meet at the Los Alamos Smith's parking lot
