Day #: 83 Ride #: 58 Day's verts: 1100 Total vertical feet climbed: 91,500
Daily Deal: The benefits of a stiffer front end
Ride Journal: Vedder Ridge, WA
Bruce Brown
3/23/2000
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Spring on the Frost Rd.: the skunk cabbage in bloom across from Mark and Wendy Porter's place.
Rode Vedder Ridge and played some more on the Piano Drop. Now that I pumped the air pressure in the Lefty from 120 up to 135 pounds, it's much better for holes. It also climbs better -- I don't have to lock out the front end on climbs anywhere near as much as I did when I first started riding the Cannondale Jekyll.

Approximately 1100 verts.
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The valley below: looking north up the Sumas Valley toward the Fraser and Sumas Mt in BC. Most of the valley here was under Lake Sumas until the 1920s.

This is an excerpt from Vert Quest, which chronicles The Man Known As Mongo's pursuit of the World Record for climbing on a mountain bike, 404,000 vertical feet, or the vertical equivalent of 13 sea-level-to-summit ascents of Mt. Everest during a 12 month period.

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