PINKHAM NOTCH — After going on hiatus last year, the 20th Tuckerman Inferno Pentathlon came roaring back under sunny blue skies Saturday with a new format that received a big thumbs up from participants.
Previously, the five-part race consisted of a run from Story Land over Glen Ledge and up Route 302 to Thorne Pond at Attitash, after which competitors would jump in kayaks and canoes and paddle down to Glen Ellis Campground, where they would jump on their road bicycles and pedal up over Glen Ledge and onto Route 16 and up to the Pinkham Notch Visitors Center, where they would then run up the Tuckerman Trail to Tuckerman Ravine for the ski leg.
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