  The close location of the HAWC observatory to the largest volcano in Mexico
allows to perform a search for neutrino-induced horizontal muon and tau charged
leptons. The section of the volcano located at the horizon reaches values of
slant depth larger than 8 km of rock, making it an excellent shield for the
cosmic ray horizontal background. We report the search method and background
suppression technique developed for the detection of Earth-skimming neutrinos
with HAWC, as well as a model that describes the remaining background produced
by scattered muons. We show that by increasing the detection energy threshold
we could use HAWC to search for neutrino-induced charged leptons.
