NM Mountain Club Activities
The Knife Edge of the Shield in the Sandia
Mountains offers spectacular views of the
Rio Grande Valley.
Our outdoor activites include hiking, climbing, and snowshoeing. There are occasional overnight hikes with camping and backpacking.
We have a monthly meeting the third Wednesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. at Congregation B'Nai Israel, 4401 Indian School Road, NE.
Club members receive an Outings Bulletin quarterly that provides information about all upcoming activities.
Trail Maintenance
As avid trail users, we have a responsibility to help keep them maintained. We do this everywhere through good trail manners and our "no trace" hiking ethic. Also, we have adopted the South Crest Trail in the Sandia Mountains Wilderness for maintenance. The Club has several outings a year to do trimming and other light maintenance on this trail.
Continental Divide Trail Project
The Club has at least one outing each quarter to do Continental Divide Trail work. The idea of a hiking trail along the Continental Divide from Mexico to Canada has been around for more than 20 years. Until recently, much of the trail in New Mexico existed only as a plan on paper.
In 1997, the New Mexico Mountain Club began a project to locate and mark a hiking route for the trail through public lands from the town of Cuba, New Mexico, to the Cibola National Forest north of Grants, New Mexico, a distance of 54 miles. The terrain is mostly grassland and pinyon/juniper woodland, but it is still rich in scenery, interesting geology, and cultural history.
The red dots on the map above show the general location of our trail segment. The Bear Mouth (left) is a prominent landmark near the south end of our segment. To the south, the trail goes past Mount Taylor, into Grants, then through the El Malpais National Monument. To the north, the trail goes through Cuba then through the San Pedro Parks Wildeness.