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Los Alamos resident second to run 300-mile Monumental Loop around Las Cruces


Los Alamos resident second to run 300-mile Monumental Loop around Las Cruces
Leah Romero, Las Cruces Sun-News
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Garth Reader, right, of Los Alamos finishes the Monumental Loop Friday morning, Feb. 26, 2021, in the Mesilla Plaza. The 300-mile trek took Reader about six days to complete.
LAS CRUCES – The second person to complete running Monumental Loop in Doña Ana County finished Friday morning.
Monumental Loop is a 316-mile bikepacking route that is roughly in the shape of a figure eight. It includes areas within the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks Monument such as the Doña Ana Mountains, Sierra de las Uvas and the Potrillos Mountains. It also crosses into Texas near the Franklin Mountains. ....

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