Recreation
Craig Martin Guides Hike To Bandelier’s Upper Crossing
View of Upper Frijoles Canyon. Photo by Craig MartinPEEC News:
Saturday, July 16, local trails expert Craig Martin will lead a hike to Upper Crossing. The four-mile hike includes 400 feet of elevation gain, incredible views of Frijoles Canyon, a walk through an old growth Ponderosa Pine Forest, beautiful wildflowers, and a chance to glimpse some unusual plants near the end of the trail. This hike, organized by the Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) is one of many events to help people get outside and enjoy nature.
To hike Bandelier’s Upper Crossing with Martin,
Read More Cowboy Shoot At Los Alamos Sportsmen’s Club Pistol Pits Saturday July 16
SPORTS News:
There will be a Cowboy Action Shoot this Saturday, July 16, at the Los Alamos Sportsmen’s Club Pistol Pits. This Saturday’s match starts at 8 a.m. instead of the usual 9 a.m. This SASS ruled event occurs every third Saturday through November.
The shooting competition is staged in a unique, characterized, “Old West” style. Clothing attire and accoutrements, as well as the guns used, that reflects this period of the American West is required/encouraged to shoot in these events. Courses of fire are shot in stages that change each month, firing on fixed or reactive
The Great Duck Race 2016
The crowd makes its way toward the bridge and riverbank Saturday in Jemez Springs at the start of the annual Great Duck Race. Photo by Ryszard Wasilewski/jemezdailypost.com
The ducks head downstream in the Jemez River. Photo by R.W./jemezdailypost.com
Crowds stood by the river banks and on the bridge, urging-on their favorite ducks. Photo by R.W./jemezdailypost.com
By RYSZARD WASILEWSKI
Jemez Daily Post
The annual Great Duck Race might seem to some to be at the periphery of Independence Day celebrations, but it is clearly a major sporting event for the village of Jemez Springs Read More
Northern New Mexico Sierra Club Releases Updated Edition Of Popular ‘Day Hike’ Guidebook
The Sierra Club Northern New Mexico Group releases the eighth edition of its best-selling Day Hikes in the Santa Fe Area. COurtesy/SCNNM
SIERRA CLUB News:
This week, the Sierra Club Northern New Mexico Group published the eighth edition of its best-selling Day Hikes in the Santa Fe Area.
The eighth edition contains 410 pages; 68 hike descriptions that, counting all the options and variations provided, cover more than 125 individual day hikes, 71 maps and 95 photographs; most of which are new to this edition.
“Generations Read More
More Scenes From Monday’s YMCA Parade
Scene from Monday’s YMCA Firecracker 5k Fun Run in downtown Los Alamos. Photo by Leland Lehman/ladailypost.com
Scene from Monday’s YMCA Firecracker 5k Fun Run in downtown Los Alamos. Photo by Leland Lehman/ladailypost.com
Scene from Monday’s YMCA Firecracker 5k Fun Run in downtown Los Alamos. Photo by Leland Lehman/ladailypost.com
Scene from Monday’s YMCA Firecracker 5k Fun Run in downtown Los Alamos. Photo by Leland Lehman/ladailypost.com
Scene from Monday’s YMCA annual 4th of July parade in downtown Los Alamos. in downtownCandia Is Top Predictor In Weekly Pace Race
Courtesy photoACRR News:
Roxana Candia was the top predictor in the weekly pace race held on American Springs Road in the Jemez with a 1 second error off her prediction.
Other accurate predictors were Marjorie Keilers at 6 seconds off, Laura Woodroffe with a 9 second differential as well as the best finisher on the 3 mile course at 22:38, Zachary Medin at 10 seconds off and the first male on the 3 mile course with a time of 23:05, and Esther Wermer recording a 18 second difference.
On the 1 mile course 7 year old William Strother was the top finisher
Read More Scenes From YMCA Children’s Parade
Diego and Daniella Hinojosa get ready for the YMCA’s Children Parade Monday at Ashley Pond. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
Two youngsters assume the driver’s seat on the Los Alamos Fire Brigade truck during the YMCA Children’s Parade. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
Sarah Waters, her husband M.L. and son Everett get ready to take part in the YMCA Children’s Parade. The parade started at Ashley Pond and ended at the YMCA. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
Paraders make their way down Central Avenue. Photo by Kirsten Laskey Read More
More Scenes From Monday’s 5K Firecracker Run
Ondrej Certik, left, his wife, Michelle and son, ‘Z’, run to the finish line during Monday’s Los Alamos Family YMCA’s Firecracker 5K Fun Run. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
Kayti Herning closes in on the finish line at the Los Alamos Family YMCA’s 5K Firecracker Fun Run. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
Calvin Sisneros races to the finish line. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
A young runner gets into the spirit of Independence Day. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
Another young runnerY Golf Nets Donations For Scholarships
YMCA News:Old results from The Family YMCA’s Ed Griggs Memorial Golf Tournament, held Saturday, June 11, were inadvertently announced and are corrected here. The event drew 24 teams of 94 players on Saturday, June 11, to the Los Alamos Golf Course and netted $13,615 for Y program scholarships.
First Gross Score winner was the team of Curtis Norman, Mike McNeil, Tod Jankowski and Steve Sanderson; second place went to Kevin Brake, Nick Njegomir, Tommy Bice and James Merhege; third place went to James Keane, Chris Ross, Preston Ballew and Wiley
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