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Zoom is a virtual meeting room tool that allows our club to hold safe, socially distanced meetings. This is a general How To article on how to participate in a Zoom meeting.

Here's some local REI Classes that might benefit members. GPS Navigation, Ski and Snowboard waxing, Map Reading, Winter Camping, Outdoor Emergency Preparedness, NOLS Emergency 1st Aid, more. See Albuquerque/Santa Fe REI Classes

The Leadville bus trip for 2019 will be January 18 to 21, 2019. Leadville has been one of our favorite destinations in spite of being one of the coldest site we have visited. The 2nd Bus Trip  to Ouray, Colorado from  February 22 to 25 2019 has been canceled due to lack of interest. Participants must be club members....

The Colorado Avalance Information Center (CAIC) announces Version 2 of their mobile app for both Android and Apple devices. V2 has an updated user interface that provided a cleaner path to the avalanche forecast, danger ratings, and zone weather tables. Download the latest version here:  Apple:https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/caic/id956986311?mt=8 Android:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.caic.caic

If you are can or need to carpool to Silverton please post name and contact info here. Also if you are interested in a potluck dinner New Year's Eve please post what you would like to contribute. Thanks and I hope this makes planning easier. Max

Document names and links- Once you insert a file in a page from the Media Library you see that it has the same Text as the filename, just all lower characters.  The Text you see and the Link to the file are not the same.  You can change the visible NAME of the doc to ANYTHING you want.  Change/Add...

Mary Kaye Gallagher is putting together a trip the Aladdin's Lamp Hut for the New Year's Celebration. Aladdin's Lamp Hut has become a great location not just for the snow but for those who want to experience the hut environment. The hut is only a couple hundred yards from the parking area, so the normal struggle to get "home"...

Peter Marks, the NMCCSC Program Chair, is putting together the schedule of programs for the coming season. At this point the following programs have been scheduled. October:  The Oct program will be on conditioning exercises for XC skiing and the presenter is Laura Cobb who is the fitness director at the YMCA here in town. The presentation will consist...

We are looking into holding another beginner hut trip at Aladdin's Lamp. This trip is primarily for those who can ski but have never tried a hut trip. It will give you an opportunity to experience the Hut Trip environment in all of its glory. And you will have a chance to do some skiing right outside your home away from...

This past winter the UNM Ski Team started development on a groomed ski loop in the Sandias for ski team training. The loop is intended for the exclusive use of cross country skiers. It is accessible from either the Ellis or 10K Trailhead parking areas. Chris Norton, with the UNM nordic team, has groomed some trails adjacent to the Ellis trailhead...