The University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) Makiling Center for Mountain Ecosystems is organizing the Centennial Year edition of its annual Maquiling Quest on 21 November 2010.

The race is dubbed as “100 years of Mount Makiling, 100 kilometers of adventure racing, 100 thousand pesos in prizes” as it is scheduled
exactly 100 years since the establishment of Mount Makiling Forest Reserve on 21 November 1910 through Proclamation 106 by the American Governor-General W. Cameron Forbes.

It will be a combination of biking and running that will start fromLipa City through the pit stops around the towns of Malvar, Tanauan and Sto. Tomas in Batangas, traversing Mount Makiling forest trails to the towns of Bay and Los Baños in Laguna. The 100-kilometer race will
end at the UPLB campus.

Maquiling Quest was first held in Year 2002 to celebrate the United Nations’ International Year of Mountains, to enhance public awareness
and understanding about the need to conserve Mount Makiling, and to develop and promote sports, adventure travel and ecotourism in the
legendary mountain.

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