Day #: 263 Ride #: 167 Day's verts: 1100 Total vertical feet climbed: 304,000
Daily Deal: Night ride alone
Ride Journal: Galbraith Mt., WA
Bruce Brown
9/19/2000

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Early evening moon over Arsenio.

Rode Galbraith alone at night, sprinting up to the top of Arsenio after a 10-hour day moving stuff from Sumas into the Humboldt St. house in Bellingham.

Surely, this has got to be one of the sweetest parts about living in B'ham: having Galbraith so close (it's even closer and more accessible than Vedder Ridge was from Sumas, and of course Galbraith offers 1,000 times more and better riding).

After the ride, I grabbed a quick shower in my Whatcom Falls office, where my Galbraith ride reverie was shattered around 9:30 p.m. by the appearance of my wife, Lane, who was furious at me because I wasn't home yet.

After a thorough tongue lashing from Lane, I meekly followed her back to Humboldt, but I slept on the couch.

Approximately 1100 verts.

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Lane talking on the phone on the steps of the Humboldt St. house in Bellingham.

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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