What: Copper Canyon hike plus vegan lunch at La Salita

Time: Saturday, January 11th, 10:30 AM

Location: Copper Trailhead, 15000 Copper Ave NE, Albuquerque, NM GPS coordinates[masked], [masked]

Let’s explore Copper Canyon! We’ll take trail 400 to trail 365 and hike north a little way, and then turn to the east to head up a kind of steep, rocky trail into the canyon. We will be rewarded by a scenic vista at the top before turning around and heading back down the way we came. This is a difficult hike, but it’s an out and back so if some people want to take it kind of easy we will catch them on the way back. Some parts of the trail are quite steep and rocky. We will try to keep it to no more than 2 hours.

As a post hike option:

Vegan lunch at La Salita, 1950 Juan Tabo Blvd NE, Suite H, Albuquerque, NM.

La Salita has many vegan options, and they offer vegan cheese. Please use care in ordering as most dishes need some modification to be vegan. Please respect all members of this ABQ Vegan Meetup event by ensuring that any food we bring along for the hike or order at the restaurant is completely plant-based (no meat, no dairy, no eggs, and no honey).

If you would like to join for the lunch only, that would be great too, but I can only predict a very approximate arrival time at the restaurant of 1:00 PM to leave some flexibility for the speed of the hike.