The month meetings are held on the fourth Tuesday of each month in the planetarium of the Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC)  2600 Canyon Rd, Los Alamos, NM 87544

Link - https://peecla.app.neoncrm.com/event-detail?event=76474

Social at 6:45.  Reports of recent and upcoming trips at 7:05pm.   Program to follow.  Visitors are always welcome!  Free refreshments!

Program Description

The September 22 Mountaineers meeting will feature a talk by Bill Carey entitled “Nankoweap to Bright Angel: A Grand Canyon Crossing via the Butte Fault Traverse and High Saddles Passage.”

The August 25 Mountaineers meeting will feature a talk by Tanja Pietraß entitled “The Wind Rivers – Off-Trail.”

The July 28 Mountaineers meeting will feature a talk by Oliva Li entitled “Trekking in Western China: Tibet’s Kama Valley and Sichuan’s Holy Mountains.”

The June 23 Mountaineers meeting will feature a talk by Reid Priedhorsky entitled “How to win 37 pieces of flair via helicopter evacuation from the canyon country, or, perhaps: How not to.”

The May 26 Mountaineers meeting will feature a talk by Sarah Wright and Eric that shares their experiences summiting four of Ecuador's iconic (and highest) volcanoes - Cayambe, Cotopaxi, Antisana, and Chimborazo - across two very different but equally rewarding trips in 2025. Even the least of the peaks reaches almost 19,000 feet, while 20,560-foot Chimborazo is the point on the Earth’s surface farthest from the Earth’s center.

The April 28 Mountaineers meeting will feature a talk by Michelle Gavel and Jordan Bishop entitled “Remarkably Close, Shockingly Remote: Six years of Adventures in the White Mountains of Interior Alaska.” Michelle and Jordan lived in Fairbanks, Alaska from 2017 to 2024. During this time, their work and recreation took them all over the state, but this talk will focus on one of their favorite places, the White Mountains National Recreation Area.

The March 24 Mountaineers meeting will feature a talk by Tanja Pietraß on adventuring in the far Aleutians. Two Alaska adventure buddies (Raz and Tanja) set out for Adak — a windswept Aleutian island closer to Russia than the continental U.S. Once home to a major naval base, Adak now stands as one of America’s most remote and hauntingly beautiful frontiers. Here, volcanoes rise through the clouds, rain falls horizontally, and the lush landscape feels alive under your feet.

The February 24 Mountaineers meeting will feature a talk by Toni Taylor on Mount Kilimanjaro. She will describe climbing the 19,341-foot peak with her husband, Stuart Trugman, as part of a supported group in February 2025. Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in Africa and the highest free-standing mountain above sea level in the world, at 5,895 m (19,341 ft) above sea level and 4,900 m (16,100 ft) above its plateau base.

The January 27 Mountaineers meeting will feature a talk by Jonathon Creel and Nell Larson on packrafting in far northern Alaska. One of the most remote and least-disturbed wilderness areas in North America, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a wild place unlike any other in the U.S. The Canning River runs from the Brooks Range through the wetlands and hummocks of the coastal plain to the Arctic Ocean.