The Monumental Loop - Every good ride starts with a buzz.
Photo Credit: Bikepacking.com Several months back, one of the members of our Bad Idea Club ™, Cody Wallis, pitched the next bad idea as a trip to the Chihuahuan Desert to check out the Monumental Loop , which has been created by Matt Mason, in collaboration with Jack Kirby, Dan Carter, and other Las Cruces bikepackers. (bikepacking.com) Our crew would eventually whittle down to Cody, Justin Mace, Nick Nichols, and myself, from the Bad Idea Club ™, a friend of ours who lives in Albuquerque, Rowdy Randall Ausdran, and an old friend of Cody's and one of his friends, Ian and Austin, who were from Colorado, totaling 7 adventurers. We opted to drive out and fly back, as one of the guys had an upcoming family vacation in the area and wanted to leave the van out there for ease of travel. March 18th became the target departure date and was upon us before we knew it. It came so fast that several of the attendees opted to just "ride themselves into shape on the route" rather