Recreation

Los Alamos Ski Club Board President Fields Questions From Floor

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Los Alamos Ski Club President Philip Rae answers questions from the audience at Cross Roads Bible Church this evening. Audience members suggest various scenarios that might keep the operation going. The board has considered most but one audience member asked that a poll be taken of the membership whether they would buy enough season passes to keep the Ski Hill going to until next Christmas. Rae said he would draw up that question to the membership. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Los Alamos Council Vice Read More

Pajarito Mountain Needs A Miracle

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Pajarito Mountain Ski Hill General Manager Tom Long says there have been just 18 days of skiing this year. “We do not believe the Los Alamos Ski Club can continue as it has done … the number of ski passes have been declining over the years and expenses continue to increase.” Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

President of the Board of the Los Alamos Ski Club Philip Rae says it costs $17,000-$18,000 per month in fixed costs just to exist, adding that the operation will be insolvent in 4.5 months unless “something extraordinary happens.” Photo by Carol Read More

Los Alamos Ski Club Decides Fate Tonight

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A PowerPoint presentation is set up at Cross Roads Bible Church for tonight’s special meeting of the Los Alamos Ski Club. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

A crowd is gathering for tonight’s special meeting. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Staff Report

Beginning at 6 p.m., today, President of the Board of the Los Alamos Ski Club Philip Rae and Pajarito Mountain General Manager Tom Long will begin a 30-minute presentation of the situation that has led to tonight’s board meeting at Cross Roads Bible Church on East Road to decide whether to dissolve the group Read More

Registration Opens For Jemez Mountain Trail Races Half Marathon

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Courtesy/JMTR

JMTR News:

The Ninth Annual Jemez Mountain Trails Races are scheduled for Saturday, May 24. Registration for the half marathon (13.1 mile) option is now open. These races fill up quickly so register soon at https:////ultrasignup.com/register.aspx?did=24422.

The Jemez Mountain Trail Races are a wonderful community event that takes full advantage of the beautiful mountain trail running network around town, up Pajarito Mountain and through the Valles Caldera. Last year, more than 600 runners participated.

Through the registration fees and generous national and local Read More

Valles Caldera Trust Recaps 2013 Challenges and Successes

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The Valles Caldera. Courtesy/www.vallescaldera.gov

VALLES CALDERA News:

For the second time in less than 24 months, a downed power line dramatically changed the best laid plans of the Valles Caldera Trust. The Thompson Ridge Fire of 2013 burned more than 23,000 acres of the Valles Caldera National Preserve less than two years after the 2011 Las Conchas Fire scorched 30,000 acres.  

Both fires figure prominently in the trust’s Report to Congress for Fiscal Year 2013 (Oct. 1, 2012 through Sept. 30, 2013.) 

The 2013 Annual Report to Congress (RTC) details how post-fire flooding destroyed Read More

K2 Women’s Weekend Is On!

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K2 Women’s Weekend News:

The K2 Women’s Weekend is happening this year just in a little different format and at Taos!

Lack of precipitation has resulted in innovation. This year, due to the lack of snow at Pajarito, K2 Women’s Weekend has decided to: move the skiing portion to Taos and only ski on Saturday; encourage on-line donations via our new website; and plan a silent auction at Pajarito Mountain in March. 

The goal is to keep the fun and expand the fundraising for this very worthy cause. So don’t delay. Registration has been extended to Sunday, Read More

Los Alamos Ski Club May Dissolve – Transition Assets to County

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2013 Winter Trail Map. Courtesy/PMSA
 
LASC News:
 
The Board of Los Alamos Ski Club (LASC) has announced a Special Membership Meeting set for 6 p.m., Feb. 4 at Crossroads Bible Church on East Road, to present to its membership a path forward that the board unanimously believes will secure and improve the future of skiing in Los Alamos County.
 
The board proposes to dissolve Los Alamos Ski Club and transition all assets to Los Alamos County, which, subject to County Council approval, will then take over operation of the Ski Area. The reasons why the board believes that this
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Los Alamos Golf Course Featured in ‘Wide Open Fairways’

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‘Wide Open Fairways’ by Bradley S. Klein includes the Los Alamos Municipal Golf Course. Courtesy photo

Staff Report:

The Los Alamos Golf Course is one of six courses featured in Bradley S. Klein’s “Wide Open Fairways: A Journey Across the landscapes of Modern Golf.”

Klein is architecture editor of “Golfweek” magazine and runs its national golf course rating system. In the course of writing the book, Klein visited courses in locales ranging from The Bronx to North Dakota.

Klein visited Los Alamos in 2011 just two days after residents were allowed to return to town following the Las Read More

Registration Opens for Los Alamos Mountaineers’ 2014 Climbing School

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Scaling Portrillo. Courtesy/LAM

LA MOUNTAINEERS News:

Time to rock out! Registration is open for the 2014 Climbing School presented by the Los Alamos Mountaineers.

Students in the class will learn all the particulars of climbing equipment, essential knots, rope handling, anchor building and belaying to be able to safely and confidently explore the multitude of quality rock-climbing crags in Northern New Mexico.

The Climbing School includes classroom instruction and outdoors, hands-on opportunities to put into practice what has been taught. Instructors include many of the area’s Read More

Bandelier Announces 2015 Park Pass Artwork Contest

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View of Tyuonyi Pueblo from the cavates; second place winning photo in last year’s contest. Photo by Kathryn Dannay

BANDELIER News:

Bandelier National Monument has announced this year’s contest for photographers and artists to submit images to be used on the park’s Annual Pass.

“Bandelier sells hundreds of these passes every year, and next year it could be your photo or artwork that those hundreds of park visitors will see,” Superintendent Jason Lott said.

The winner will have their photo or artwork adorn the 2015 Bandelier Annual Pass, and receive a personal tour Read More