Rode the Shaved Knob above Columbia Valley again, and then bopped up the Frost Rd. and climbed Vedder Ridge from the Frost Rd spur to the old quarry.

Met a guy in a pickup with his kid who was stealing firewood out of the DNR land on top while simulteneously getting in some quality father / son time. The guy was dragging his yarding cable down the road after him, and nearly snagged my from wheel as I was heading up.

Broke a pedal (as Mark Belles says, "you can break anything on a mountain bike"), but I was able to keep going by using the other side until I got to the top.

Approximately 1500 verts. This gives me 30,339 verts for January. Not bad, but I'll need to pick up the pace to average around 34,000 verts a month if I'm going to get 400,000 verts this year.

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.