Day #: 172 Ride #: 111 Day's verts: 2300 Total vertical feet climbed: 200,400
Daily Deal: Galbraith glory days
Ride Journal: Galbraith Mt, WA
Bruce Brown and Mark Belles
6/20/2000

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Mark cutting down the root and rock combo just after the Upper Ridge Trail comes out of the trees.

Another great ride with Mark, this time on a gorgeous sunny day on Galbraith. We headed up to Wonderland, and then dove down Dan's Trail, which I had my best run ever on. I cleaned everything but biggest log crossing at the very end of the trail, where I had to put my feet down. I got the last (and slightly smaller) log crossing immediately afterwards, though. Then we headed down the bottom two Pigs, which Mark had brushed out the day before with the used weed eater he bought for the purpose.

Approximately 2300 verts.

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Bruce weaving through the stump combos just before you go back into the trees on the Lower Ridge Trail.

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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