This weekend it starts snowing Friday night and continues all through Saturday all day. I want to leave Friday and spend two days in Colorado skiing, coming back Sunday night.
The Hill Stompers are playing in Durango as the official band of the towns snow-down festival.
So I'd like to lead a trip of people who want to go to ski Purgatory with this short notice arrangement. Depending on response we can organize together sharing hotels and carpooling. And depending on ability we can see who can ski together as a powder hound group.
published by tlkostrubala on Sat, 2024-01-20 20:16
Leader:
Tadz Kostrubala
Telephone:
505-231-6191
Date:
Thu, 2024-01-25
Leader Email:
tlkostrubala@hotmail.com
Difficulty:
Moderate
Technicality:
Intermediate
Are dogs allowed?:
Allowed
This is not an official Los Alamos Mountaineers event, but it is being posted as a general interest item for our club members. This is the first of a series - we will meet on Thursday mornings as long as there is snow!
When: Thursdays at 6 AM
Where: Bottom of Aspen Lift; Skin to P-Tree or top of Mother lift
Join us for an intermediate, cross-country ski outing to Canada Bonita Wednesday night, January 24. The first full moon of 2024, also known as Wolf Moon, will provide enough light to enjoy the scenery. Depending on your preference, the round trip will be anywhere between 4 and 8 miles of skiing. It will be of intermediate difficulty and participants should have previous experience cross country skiing.
We will leave promptly at 9 PM from the gate at Camp May Road up on Pajarito ski hill. We plan to be back to our cars by 11 PM.
Join PEEC and the Los Alamos Mountaineers for an intermediate, point-to-point snowshoe or cross-country ski outing from the Las Conchas Trailhead to the East Fork Trailhead on Saturday, January 20. This trip will cover 4.5 miles and about 800 feet of elevation gain. It will be of intermediate difficulty and technicality and participants should be able to hike 5 miles in 2.5 hours comfortably and have previous experience snowshoeing or skiing. The use of snowshoes and skis will be weather-dependent.
Let's snowshoe in Black Canyon this Monday of MLK weekend. It will be an out-and-back, about 4 miles total and 1,000 ft elevation gain, to several vista points. Black Canyon is located near Santa Fe, on the road to the ski area, but well before it. The first half of the trail climbs gently. The second half is quite steep, and we might need to break trail.
We will meet at 9:30am at the entrance of the Black Canyon Campground, located on the right of the road, 6.9 miles from where Artist Road intersects with Bishops Lodge Road.
Let's do a XC ski in the Valles Caldera on Sunday January 7th.
I would like to do a 4-5 hour ski. I'd like to start from one of the breaks in the fence, as you first drive down into the Caldera on State Rte 4 - but am not sure that the parking area will be plowed. So, it may be possible that we start at Coyote Call, or that we might have to go all the way to the Visitor Center. (the Caldera web page that the road will be plowed by mid day Friday, 1/5, but I know this is a goal, not a certainty).
Have you wanted to try out snowshoeing, but do not have the gear? This snowshoe hike is for you. This trip is co-sponsored with PEEC - and they have snowshoes to lend. We will hike from the Pajarito Mountain Ski Area to Canada Bonito, north of the ski are - it is a 2-4 mile round trip (depending upon how far folks want to go). There is a small participation fee for all.
