slope soaring

[daniel roberts]

Anyone been to La Mosca lookout on Mt. Taylor? It has a road to the top. 2 hour plus drive. 

[Ise Dave]

Haven’t been there but sounds like a fun day trip to try it out. 

 

Dave 

 

 

On Sun, Nov 30, 2025 at 5:17 AM daniel roberts <dan...@live.com> wrote:

Anyone been to La Mosca lookout on Mt. Taylor? It has a road to the top. 2 hour plus drive. 

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[Dan Tandberg]

This is a great idea.  I remember this from when I was a psycho big runner.  The road goes in from Grants.  As I recall, the dirt parts were pretty well maintained, but that was back in the uranium mining days.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/La+Mosca+Lookout/@35.2650499,-107.6901045,46038m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x8723a122b558fe8f:0x95fe5ba1ba069e12!8m2!3d35.2513888!4d-107.5963888!16s%2Fg%2F1tj5lm8n!5m1!1e4?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MTEyMy4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

[Dan Tandberg]

Mount Taylor weather. Bookmark this link so you can check for a good time to go.  Probably after the snows is mostly gone this spring.

https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=35.239&lon=-107.595&unit=0&lg=english&FcstType=graphical

[Dan Tandberg]

As it turns out, Rocky and LP have been to this site back in 2011.  Here is a link.  https://groups.google.com/g/soarabq/c/zcBpiGKQA7s/m/ek_TnxavmzcJ

Go all the way to the last picture for the story.

[STAN JOHNSON]

I've been to Mosca Peak twice in my life.  The first time was in a 4 wheel drive SUV to check on the micro wave equipment on the peak when I worked for PNM.  The second time was in my 1976 VW Dasher sedan just for fun.  That was about 45 years ago, but the road was pretty good then.  I have no idea how good it might be for slope flying.