With Mark Adriance, Mark Belles and all the rest of my friends away skiing, I climbed Galbraith alone until I was stopped by snow, which turned out to be about half way up the rutted trail to the lower end of Arsenio Spur. I got "first tracks" trough the lower Family Fun Center and again farther up the mountain on the Intestine. I had hoped to to explore the side trail near the top of the Candy Trails, but was stopped by 5 inch deep snow about half way up the last climb to the Loop logging road.

Then to my surprise, I found myself standing at the entrance to the tail I was looking for. There were no tracks in the snow, except those of a deer. I rode down it about 100 yards, yipping it up on two tasty cedar log drops, before dropping all the way down to the logging road below the lower Ridge Trail. I'd never ridden this route before, but I thought it should connect -- and it did.

To get more verts, I climbed the logging road back up to the very top of the Ridge Trail extension, which remains in exceptionally good shape, considering the rain and traffic.

Approximately 1100 verts.

Vert Quest 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. Mongo's mountain bike climbing tricks are distilled in Mongo's Over-the-top Guide to Climbing.