Sandia Crest
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by

Jacque Alameddine

Sandia Crest
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Sandia Crest
Overlooking Albuquerque, New Mexico, Sandia Crest is 10,640 ft. high. "Sandia" means "watermelon", and the Indians named it this for the pink color of the quartz when the sun shines on it.