Ride Journal: Vedder Ridge, WA
Bruce Brown
4/5/2000
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Black over Red: Black Mt. looms over Red Mt in this view from across Columbia Valley on Vedder Ridge.
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| Rode from home up onto Vedder Ridge for the first time in a week. It felt good, and I was amazed how strong I felt on the climb, despite losing five pounds from worry about Laurel and Lane during our recent family flameout.
If I can get strong at something like this weight (I came back at 165, would like to hold 168), I should be able to climb fine on the Cannondale Jekyll, since the bike is one pound more but I am maybe as much as seven pound lighter myself (175 to 168 compared to last fall when I was on the Specialized Stumpjumper FSR XC).
Approximately 1400 verts.
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| See the Trail? Looking down from the top of the trail that Dennis Lenssen and Bruce roughted out this spring. It's mercifully a little easier to see (and ride) toward the bottom.
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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