Day #: 285 Ride #: 181 Day's verts: 1700 Total vertical feet climbed: 339,500
Daily Deal: Double Dose
Ride Journal: Galbraith Mt., WA
Bruce Brown, Steve Hindman, Mark Belles, Jimmy Breitenstein, Jason Ploskunak & Russ Lambert
10/11/2000

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Russ rolling over a rock on Kung Fu Theater and crusing through the woods on the new Kaiser.

Rode Galbraith with Mark and Steve first thing in the morning. Then we connected with Jimmy and Jason for an hour at Padden at the end of our ride. And finally I rode with Russ in late afternoon on Galbraith again.

Steve took a nasty spill on the second face on Flying Squirrel, exactly where I endoed several months ago. It is sooo easy to carry too much speed into the top of this face, and then get sucked down into the trough where the big alder logs are lying length-wise.

Approximately 1750 verts.

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Steve climbing Crazy 8s.

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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