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Day #: 59 Ride #: 43 Day's verts: 1100 Total vertical feet climbed: 62,800
Daily Deal: Exploring Upper Bob's Trail
Ride Journal: Galbraith Mt, WA
Bruce Brown
2/28/2000

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Some of the stunts on Upper Bob's Trail.
Rode Galbraith on a day that rained hard all the while I was driving into Bellingham, getting a doughnut, and preparing my gear in the car at the end of Birch St.

As if on cue, though, when I stepped out, it slacked off, and stayed light for the next two hours. Despite riding more than 50 days during January and February this year, I have only been out in a driving rain once, and that was in supposedly sunny Anacortes.

Explored the trail that drops from the end of Upper Ridge Trail Extension -- Upper Bob's Trail by name. It's probably the gnarliest trail on the entire north side of Galbraith, with approximately a dozen natural terrain stunts like the ones in these pics.

Approximately 1100 verts.


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Graveyard of the Giants on Upper Bob's Trail.
Vert Quest -- excerpts from Mongo's World Record Journal by Bruce Brown
Days: 365 Rides: 220 Total vertical feet climbed: 404,900
January 2000 - "South Pass Mist" by Bruce Brown
January
February 2000 - "Bo" by Mongo
February
March 2000 - "The Big East" by Mongo
March
April 2000 - "Mark on Dan's Trail" by Mongo
April
May 2000 - "Flowers by the Back Porch" by Bruce Brown
May
June 2000 - "Herb at the Big Gnarly" by Mongo
June
July 2000 - "Woof" by Mongo
July
August 2000 - "Lake Samish" by Mongo
August
September 2000 - "Babe" by Mongo
September
October 2000 - "Still Life with Helmet" by Bruce Brown
October
November 2000 - "Mongo on the Family Fun Center" by Mark Adriance
November
December 2000 - "Guano on the Coast" by Mongo
December
* Click here for the full list of Bruce Brown's Vert Quest journal entries.

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.

Mongo's Guide to Climbing by Bruce Brown


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